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CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 30, 2014

LEGENDARY DAN MAYERS, 92 YEAR OLD WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY COMPETITOR, DIES IN SUN VALLEY, IDAHO … MR. DAN MAYERS, the world traveling, nearly blind expert chess player, who gave chess exhibitions 70 years ago versus fellow scientists at the Los Alamos New Mexico Oppenheimer World War II atomic bomb […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 29, 2014 [Updated] 4

Legendary NEW ORLEANS 41ST PAUL MORPHY MEMORIAL ‘BIG KAHUNA’ CHESS EVENT INVITEES ANNOUNCED TODAY … New Orleans, Louisiana … The invitees for the 41st Paul Charles Morphy Memorial chess event … the ’BIG KAHUNA’ SECTION A tournament (SUNDAY 6-11PM OCTOBER 19, 2014 AT THE NEW ORLEANS FRENCH MARKET SEAFOOD RESTAURANT […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 29, 2014

WORLD CHESS CHAMPION CARLSEN IN MEGA BUCK TOP 6 today … SHORT RAPID/BLITZ TOURNEY STARTING TODAY … ZURICH – ORGANIZERS OF THE WORLD CLASS BLITZ/RAPID 10 games CHESS SUPER GRANDMASTER TOP SIX (WITH WORLD CHAMPION M. CARLSEN, US CHESS GREAT NAKAMURA blazing away for the next week) have heard the […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 25, 2014

WIJK ANN ZEE, HOLLAND  Armenian super world #2 ranked player  L. ARONIAN crushed the 7th annual TATA STEEL 2014 12 player grandmaster tourney ending today … it was  over before the final round, 1.5 point margin of victory  for  Mr.. Aronian  (labeled the nicest, audience friendly super grandmaster ever  to […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 24, 2014 1

New Orleans, Louisiana–The 13 greatest chess grandmaster computer rankings of all time have been posted by 2700.com … listed by peak rating they are: CARLSEN ELO RATING 2878 KASPAROV 2856 ARONIAN 2829 ANAND 2820 TOPALOV 2816 KRAMNIK 2812 CARUANA 2800 RADJABOV 2799 MOROZEVICH 2788 NAKAMURA 2794 GRISCHUK 2792 IVANCHUK 2791 […]


Free Chess Mojo Sundays on Decatur Street

Curtis the Mojo, after two years planning,  snapped WARMING UP TODAY … the public street artist Curtis the Mojo will have a street chess set on the sidewalk for afternoon Sundays display … NEW ORLEANS FRENCH MARKET GAZEBO PATIO AREA … 1018 DECATUR around the Jude Acers  chess table.  IT’S YOUR MOVE … FREE!   […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 13, 2014

WORLD TOP 10 CHESS GRANDMASTER GASHIMOV DIES OF BRAIN TUMOR AT 27 New York Times chess editor Dylan Loeb McClain confirms the death of Vugar Gashimov, age 27,  world top 10, Baku, Azerbaijan chess grandmaster. Mr.Gashimov, an exponent of  the nifty sharp blade-chess rock and roll akin to US chess great L. Christiansen … […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 7, 2014

WORLD CHESS TOP “LIVE’ PLAYERS RANKED … ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI … THE UP-TO-THE-SECOND WORLD TOP “LIVE” FIDE RATED CHESS GRANDMASTERS ARE: Carlsen (NOR), elo 2872, age 23 Aronian (ARM), elo 2812, age 31 NAKAMURA (USA), elo 2789, age 26 Kramnik (RUS), elo 2787, age 38 Topalov (BUL), elo 2785, age […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 6, 2014

California Chess Reporter (1967-71), Vol. 7 California Chess Reporter (1971-74), Vol. 8 California Chess Reporter (1974-76), Vol. 9 THE JUDE ACERS 1968-1976 CALIFORNIA CHESS REPORTER YEARS … VOLUMES 7-9 COMPENDIUMS PUBLISHED WORLDWIDE … San Francisco, California … MY BACK PAGES … The Jude Acers fiery 3,000 day epic California chess […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 4, 2014

WORLD TOP 8 CHESS“CANDIDATES” NAMED KHANTY-MANSYISK, RUSSIA … the MARCH 11-APRIL 1, 2014 forced play multi million dollar chess championship cycle FIDE “candidate” tourney that provides American world number three super grandmaster H. NAKAMURA a certain chance to contest two or three chess world championship matches with world chess champion […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 4, 2014 1

LONDON, ENGLAND … CHESS IRON MAN JOURNALIST/HISTORIAN MARK CROWTHER HITS 1,000th “THE WEEK IN CHESS” IN DAYS … chess players all over the world are joyously noting with bona fide amazement how the hits just keep on coming … the unprecedented 1,000 weeks in a row, absolutely free gift to […]