Following the success of the first edition, when Wijk aan Zee’s Tata Steel Chess was selected by our members as the ACP Tournament of the Year 2011 (with mentions for the Tradewise Chess Festival in Gibraltar as the best Open event and the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk as the best official event), the Association of Chess Professionals has pleasure in introducing the ACP Tournament of the Year 2012 contest.

All ACP members are welcome to vote for their favorite events of 2012 from the list below and decide which tournament will become the “ACP Tournament of the Year 2012”. Also, by voting tournaments in the relevant categories, you will be able to determine the best tournament in each of the three categories (Round Robin, Open and Official event).

Following the success of the Gibraltar Tradewise tournament in the Open category, the ACP decided to sponsor the 2013 edition of the tournament with a GBP 1000 prize for the first non-awarded ACP member – with a view to further promoting professional chess not only at the very top level. The prize went to GM Le Quang Liem from Vietnam.

Each member is asked to vote up to 3 tournaments in each of the three categories of tournaments below, and up to 5 in the general list (by means of which the overall winner shall be decided). The tournament receiving the highest number of votes in each category will be declared ACP Tournament of the Year for its category and the most voted tournament in the general list will be the ACP Tournament of the Year 2012.

Voting will be open 25 February through 25 March and the winner shall be announced on 31 March.

Good luck to all organizers taking part in the ACP Tournament of the Year contest!

In order to take part in the vote:
2. Once you are logged in, retorn to this page and make your votes below
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If you run into any problem, do not hesitate to contact the ACP General Secretary Bartlomiej Macieja at secretary@chessprofessionals.org or webmaster Lennart Ootes at lennart.ootes@gmail.com
The nominees are:
1. Best Round Robin event 
ACP Golden Classic, Amsterdam
Biel Grandmaster Tournament
Chess Masters Final, Bilbao/San Paulo 
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
Kings Tournament, Bucharest
London Chess Classic
Tal Memorial, Moscow
Tata Steel Chess, Wijk aan Zee  
2. Best Open event 
Aeroflot Open, Moscow
Baku Open
Biel Master Tournament
Czech Open,  Pardubice
Moscow Open
Reykjavik Open
Tradewise Gibraltar Festival

3. Best official event 
ACP Women Cup, Tbilisi 
Chess Olympiad, Istanbul
European Club Cup, Eilat
European Individual Championship, Plovdiv
European Individual Women’s Championship, Gaziantep
Women’s World Blitz and Rapid Championship, Batumi
Women’s World Championship, Khanty-Mansiysk
World Mind Games,Beijing
World Rapid and Blitz Championship, Astana
World Chess Championship Match  Anand-Gelfand,  Moscow
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