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The Great Adrian L. McAuley
For more on McAuley, check out this Oral History interview with Jude Acers.
Throwback Thursday: Jude Acers Proclaims THE IMMORTAL EIGHT: “THE GREATEST STOP-THE-CAR-NOW-I-GOTTA-HEAR-THIS”
Originally published Oct 22, 2018 THE SOUNDS THAT ELECTRIFIED IN SYMPHONIC ROCK … your car just SHOOK … Yes, the haunting whispers of time … Even your grandmother was shocked/adored every moment … the immortal eight live in your car for all time: “ODE TO L.A”/THE RAVONETTES … so good […]
Gambit Promotes ‘The Man in the Red Beret’ Screening
For the full article by Will Coviello, go here. P.S. A couple factual errors in the article: Acers graduated high school in Mandeville, not Kenner. And he was 6-years-old, not 4, when he mother perished in an airplane crash.
Happy Visitors to the World Chess Table: Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate Coverage
Doug MacCash and Scott Threlkeld of the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate visited the World Chess Table on Tuesday to report on Jude’s “Invaders 3” invitational chess tournament at 1018 Decatur St. from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Be sure to check out MacCash’s article and Threlkeld’s pics. From […]
Transgender Policies: “Yo homey…is that my briefcase?” 2
FIDE stepped in it with this nonsense that Jennifer Shahade calls out, brilliantly tying it to the Chess #MeToo movement: Last week, the International Chess Federation, or FIDE, announced new regulations on transgender players, including new restrictions on transgender women competing in women’s events and stripping trans men of previously won […]
Throwback Thursday: Standing Tall
Originally posted May 17, 2021. For more from the “Standing Tall” series, please go here.
Richard Shorman (1938-2023) [UPDATED] 2
RICHARD SHORMAN (1938 – 2023): A chess columnist for the Hayward Daily Review for over 13 years (1967 – 1981), the Fremont-Newark Argus and the Dublin-Livermore-Pleasanton Herald & News (both 1968-1974), he also occasionally ghostwrote a couple of other SF Bay Area chess columns; George Koltanowski’s column (early 1960’s) and […]
A Very Special Visitor to the World Chess Table
Yesterday, Kristen Brabble and David Sharpe of Rocky Mount, NC picked up their newly adopted 6-day-old baby in Pensacola and drove to New Orleans so they could tell Jude Acers they were naming the baby after him. Please allow me to introduce Jude Bennett Sharpe. (This is the second baby […]
