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DUBLIN POLICE CONFIRM HORRIFYING CHESS MURDER FOLLOWING CHESS MOVE RULES DISPUTE (ALL DETAILS RESEARCHED BY MSN NEWS FLASH) … Dublin, Ireland Police on March 13, 2014 charged an Italian chess player who admitted to the gruesome chess game rules dispute-murder of his Irish landlord. Police stated that Mr. Salverio Bellante, a pharmaceutical representative, called them immediately after the killing, stated that amidst chess he had repeatedly stabbed the victim … then tried to eat the heart; one lung was completely missing from the body. The other tragic party to the spirited chess dispute was 39 year old Mr. Tom O’ Gormon, a Catholic think tank author who reportedly rented a room to Mr. Bellante in his home. Friends described Mr. O’ Gorman as a likable fun person but one who liked a really good argument as well …

CHESSLAB NOTE: New Orleans chess professional Jude Acers in two New Orleans media interviews today stated he had witnessed firsthand “the three jolting signposts for numerous chess game death threats, fist fights and thrown chess pieces mayhem … IF YOU TOUCH A CHESS PIECE YOU MUST MOVE IT OR ELSE …THE (OFTEN UNKNOWN TO ONE PLAYER) RULE OF ‘IN PASSING’ WHICH TOTALLY PREVENTS A CHESSBOARD PAWN POSITION FROM BEING BLOCKED AND … FINALLY, THE RULE OF ‘CASTLING’ THAT STATES IF A PLAYER’S KING IS CHECKED (ATTACKED) IT MAY STILL “CASTLE” LATER ON IF THE ATTACKED KING HAS NOT YET MOVED” … Acers further added an up close and personal vignette … that as recently as Mardi Gras New Orleans 2014 he witnessed two chess sets and one chess board hurled to the sidewalk by an irate chess player not conversant with “in passing” chess rules, finalized long ago at the London 1851 World’s Fair international chess tourney. Acers also recalled several times Louisiana state chess champion John Parsons, one time owner of the legendary Maple Leaf music bar, chess team organizer and internationally known musical producer/close friend of Grammy-nominated James Booker … Mr. Parsons reported that his life had been threatened “many times” throughout his chess career. “Never play a chess match longer than six games total,” Mr. Parsons reflected. “Otherwise, you just wind up hating each other.”

— Jude Acers