• The Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) is a non-profit organisation which aims to protect the rights of professional chess players, address their...
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  • The Professional Chess Association (PCA), which existed between 1993 and 1996, was a rival organisation to FIDE, the International Chess Federation. The...
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  • The Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) is a professional chess league in the Philippines. The Professional Chess Association of the...
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    Joël Lautier (category Chess Grandmasters)
    first president of the Association of Chess Professionals when it was founded in June 2003. In 2006, Lautier gave up competitive chess to pursue a career...
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    Emil Sutovsky (category Chess Grandmasters)
    He was the president of the Association of Chess Professionals from 2012 to 2019. Sutovsky learned to play chess at the age of four. He achieved notable...
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  • in the US Association of Chess Professionals, a non-profit organisation to protect the rights of professional chess players and promote chess worldwide...
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    Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls...
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  • Macieja for the Association of Chess Professionals mentions discussion at the FIDE congress of 2008 regarding a perceived decrease in value of the grandmaster...
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  • Beatriz Marinello (category Chess Woman International Masters)
    2005 and a member of the executive board from 2003 to 2007. She was elected general secretary of the Association of Chess Professionals in 2019. Marinello...
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    change was criticised by a number of players and commentators, as well as by the Association of Chess Professionals. In June 2009, FIDE indicated that...
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    Pavel Tregubov (category Chess Grandmasters)
    European champion in 2000. He is one of the founders of the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP), for which he is currently the ACP Tour director...
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    away from chess governing body FIDE to play their world championship match under the auspices of the newly formed Professional Chess Association, there had...
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  • Federation) Association of Chess Professionals Professional Chess Association International Braille Chess Association Grand Slam Chess Association International...
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    Aleksandar Čoloviḱ (category Chess Grandmasters)
    Чоловиќ) is a Macedonian chess grandmaster. In 2016, Čoloviḱ was elected as a General Secretary of the Association of Chess Professionals and in 2019 he was...
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    organized a slightly quicker version of active chess, dubbing it "rapid chess". The Professional Chess Association, Kasparov's answer to FIDE, subsequently...
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    Federation ACP – Association of Chess Professionals News Chessbase news The Week in Chess Online play Chess.com Play Online Against Human Players ChessFriends.com...
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    xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is...
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    and out of the ring from the ceiling for each round. The governing bodies of chessboxing are the World Chessboxing Association and the World Chess Boxing...
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    history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation...
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  • Reykjavik Open (category Invitational chess tournaments)
    the second best open tournament of the year in the world by the Association of Chess Professionals, behind Gibraltar Chess Festival. All players finishing...
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    Valentina Golubenko (category Chess Woman Grandmasters)
    Euruchess.org. Olde, Hendrik. "Clarifications of the Estonian Chess Federation". Association of Chess Professionals. Archived from the original on 2012-02-13...
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  • The 2022 Professional Chess Association of the Philippines season will be the second season of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP)...
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  • List of strong chess tournaments Grand Slam Chess Association Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting Association of Chess Professionals Chess around the world...
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    the Association of Chess Professionals in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Since 2011 an annual Gibraltar Junior International Chess Festival, also held at the...
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    Gilad Japhet (category Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni)
    2016), Association of Chess Professionals: Uncompromising Chess Battles in Jerusalem. Chess Professionals org. Gideon Japhet Memorial ACP Open Chess Tournament...
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    Organized gameplay of chess in Canada began in 1844, when the country's first club was founded in Montreal, Quebec. The Canadian Chess Association was founded...
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    Shogi (redirect from Japanese chess)
    as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western...
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    Zurab Azmaiparashvili (category Chess players from Tbilisi)
    backlash from the global chess community for this incident, including a condemnation from the Association of Chess Professionals and calls from other players...
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    2015 in Sochi. The unclear state of the tournament was highly criticised by the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP). In the final, Ukrainian Mariya...
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    Professional Chess Association (PCA) split from FIDE, and as a result there were two competing World Championship titles between 1993 and 2006. Chess...
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