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2 unusual facts about Association of Chess Professionals


Association of Chess Professionals

The organisation has been compared by some to the Professional Chess Association, the body established by Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short as an organisation under which to play their 1993 World Championship having broken away from FIDE, the official governing body of chess.

In December 2011 during the ACP General Assembly the new ACP Board was elected.The ACP Board consists of the ACP President Emil Sutovsky, ACP Board Director Yuri Garrett, ACP Secretary General Bartłomiej Macieja, ACP Treasurer Pavel Tregubov and Board Members Olena Boytsun, Giovanni Vescovi, Sergei Movsesian, Evgeniy Najer, Jeroen van den Berg.



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