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The ACO has asked our club (Ajax Chess Club) to be it's official representative in Canada. Should we comply? Look at the email they sent me below.
What do you guys think?
Dear chess friend!
My name is Lothar Hirneise. Together with several partners from different
countries we founded last year the Amateur Chess Organization (ACO) and I
was elected to be the first president of the ACO.
ACO will host the first World Championships for Amateurs and Youth in 2012.
But organizing world championships is only one small part of our work. This
summer our web pages will go online and we will have the most modern chess
server in the world. But our chess server will not only be a place to play
live chess or correspondence chess but will be an outstanding chess
community where people can share their love to chess, can go to a chess
marketplace to find chess friends, chess trainer and chess students and
there will be so many exquisite possibilities for chess friends we can´t
tell you all in one mail.For over one year we have been preparing the start of ACO for summer 2011 and we have already many partners in different countries, but not yet for Canada. I am contacting you because I know that you are the representative of a chess club who showed in the past that you love and promote chess. May I take the liberty of asking you whether you, your chess club or somebody else you know could be interested to work with us as our official representative in your country. We are looking for somebody who is able to organize:
1) National ACO Youth Championship
· We have a different age group system (U9, U11, U13, U15, U17, U19,
U21) as FIDE to give young players an extra chance to become National- or
even World Youth Champion.
· The best youth players are qualified automatically and don’t need
to qualify over several tournaments. This means they are not depended on any
federation structure or chess federation. Additional you can give wildcards
to very talented young players who maybe do not have enough rating points.
2) National ACO Amateur Championship
The National Amateur Championship will be played in the following rating
groups:
Group A plus Rating above 2300
Group A Rating 2101 – 2300
Group B Rating 1901 – 2100
Group C Rating 1701 – 1900
Group D Rating 1501 – 1700
Group E Rating 1301 – 1500
Group F Rating up to 1300
For the National Amateur Championship, there are 2 possibilities to handle:
With or without qualification tournaments. In some countries it makes no
sense to make any qualification tournaments and in some countries it makes
sense to make own tournaments or to cooperate with already existing
tournaments. THIS POINT we would like to discuss in details with you if you
are interested in a cooperation with us. For a better understanding of the
ACO we invite you to have a look on following website:
<http://www.amateurchess.com> www.amateurchess.com. This page is only to
explain to you the ACO a bit better and has of course no content of the
final web pages. Please use Name: aco and the Password: chess2011 to login.
If you think that you are able to organize the two championships alone or
maybe together with other people in your country, it would be nice if you
come back to me within the next few days. Of course, there are many other
points (financial possibilities, deeper cooperation…) we can discuss, but I
do not want to overload you with information in this mail to save your time.
You can always contact me by mail or by Skype (my Skype name is:
ACO-President) and it would be a pleasure for me to answer you all your
questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Lothar Hirneise
ACO President
What do you guys think?
Dear chess friend!
My name is Lothar Hirneise. Together with several partners from different
countries we founded last year the Amateur Chess Organization (ACO) and I
was elected to be the first president of the ACO.
ACO will host the first World Championships for Amateurs and Youth in 2012.
But organizing world championships is only one small part of our work. This
summer our web pages will go online and we will have the most modern chess
server in the world. But our chess server will not only be a place to play
live chess or correspondence chess but will be an outstanding chess
community where people can share their love to chess, can go to a chess
marketplace to find chess friends, chess trainer and chess students and
there will be so many exquisite possibilities for chess friends we can´t
tell you all in one mail.For over one year we have been preparing the start of ACO for summer 2011 and we have already many partners in different countries, but not yet for Canada. I am contacting you because I know that you are the representative of a chess club who showed in the past that you love and promote chess. May I take the liberty of asking you whether you, your chess club or somebody else you know could be interested to work with us as our official representative in your country. We are looking for somebody who is able to organize:
1) National ACO Youth Championship
· We have a different age group system (U9, U11, U13, U15, U17, U19,
U21) as FIDE to give young players an extra chance to become National- or
even World Youth Champion.
· The best youth players are qualified automatically and don’t need
to qualify over several tournaments. This means they are not depended on any
federation structure or chess federation. Additional you can give wildcards
to very talented young players who maybe do not have enough rating points.
2) National ACO Amateur Championship
The National Amateur Championship will be played in the following rating
groups:
Group A plus Rating above 2300
Group A Rating 2101 – 2300
Group B Rating 1901 – 2100
Group C Rating 1701 – 1900
Group D Rating 1501 – 1700
Group E Rating 1301 – 1500
Group F Rating up to 1300
For the National Amateur Championship, there are 2 possibilities to handle:
With or without qualification tournaments. In some countries it makes no
sense to make any qualification tournaments and in some countries it makes
sense to make own tournaments or to cooperate with already existing
tournaments. THIS POINT we would like to discuss in details with you if you
are interested in a cooperation with us. For a better understanding of the
ACO we invite you to have a look on following website:
<http://www.amateurchess.com> www.amateurchess.com. This page is only to
explain to you the ACO a bit better and has of course no content of the
final web pages. Please use Name: aco and the Password: chess2011 to login.
If you think that you are able to organize the two championships alone or
maybe together with other people in your country, it would be nice if you
come back to me within the next few days. Of course, there are many other
points (financial possibilities, deeper cooperation…) we can discuss, but I
do not want to overload you with information in this mail to save your time.
You can always contact me by mail or by Skype (my Skype name is:
ACO-President) and it would be a pleasure for me to answer you all your
questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Lothar Hirneise
ACO President
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