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The Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) is a non-profit organisation which aims to protect the rights of professional chess players', address their concerns and to promote chess worldwide through the organisation of high-level chess tournaments and maintaining a ranking system of the top professionals (see The ACP Tour). Besides these activities, the ACP encourages and promotes the civil engagement of chess players into the decision-making processes of FIDE (the world chess body). This was particularly evident with the formation of the joint ACP-FIDE panel Anti Cheating Committee.() In the summer of 2014, the ACP announced the initiation of the new Veteran's Programme along with FIDE, which seeks to provide a stipend to a few deserving Veteran players who could benefit from such support.() - since then 12 veterans were awarded with an annual stipend. At the summer of 2015 the ACP united about 1100 chess professionals (International Masters, Grand Masters, International Arbiters and Organisers) from 85 countries. While the World Champion Magnus Carlsen is a notable exception, most of the World's top players, including the previous World Champion Vishwanathan Anand can be found among the ACP members. ==ACP Board== The current Board of the ACP consists of ACP President Emil Sutovsky, ACP Board Director Yuri Garrett, ACP Secretary General Bartłomiej Macieja, ACP Treasurer Pavel Tregubov and Board Members Yuliya Levitan, Parimarjan Negi, Aleksandra Dimitrijević, Jeroen van den Berg.() The ACP Board coordinates all activities of the ACP. The main activities are the following: *Organization of the high-level chess events *Consultations of the ACP members on the topical issues *Veteran's support and anti-cheating programs *Development of recommendations for FIDE, national federations and other members of the chess society on the actual problems *Dialogue with the members through the ACP Newsletter as well as open dialogue on internet. *Conduction of opinion polls – the ACP is the only organization in the chess world that develops and conducts the polls on the regular basis *ACP Tour – the permanent up-to-date calculation of the player’s performance throughout the year, with the winners receiving wild cards to the most prestigious tournaments worldwide. *The ACP Board is an international team of () professionals united by the main aims of the organization: to protect the rights of all the actors in the chess society as well as to promote the game of chess worldwide. All members of the ACP have the right to be elected as well as to vote for the candidates of the ACP Board. The ACP Board coordinates all the activities of the ACP on a voluntary basis. *Members of the Board are in constant contact with each other using all possible means of communications. About once a month there is a common gathering of the Board Members, when the issues are discussed live (over a conference call or, if possible, in person). *For decision-making within the Board, all proposals are voted upon by each member. For most decisions a majority is sufficient, but the most critical ones require the support of 2/3rd of the Board. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Association of Chess Professionals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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