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Chess.com Names Browne v. Acers (1971) One of Top 100 Best Chess Games of All Time
Follow this link to Chess.com article. (Note that the game was played in Berkeley, CA, not New Orleans, LA). Or just jump straight to the game viewer.
Throwback Thursday: Oct 13, 1966 Chess Simul Exhibition 1
Source: Daily Reveille (LSU student newspaper)
Oral History: Jude Acers on Adrian L McAuley
Have you heard Jude Acers talk about Adrian L. McAuley, the first rated chess master in New Orleans history? Here is your chance … Check out Sarrah Danziger‘s “Listen to New Orleans” interview with Acers.
A Happy Visitor to the World Chess Table: Jamie Foxx Edition [Updated x2]
Update 1: Be sure to also check out the Chess.com coverage: OutFoxxed. Update 2: Jude follows up with additional commentary in the Chess.com comments section:
JUDE ACERS’ FINAL MATCH NOTES
US Chess: Stopping the Bleeding Readers kindly note ROUND SIX :THE DUBAI IMMORTAL SIXTH “GAME,,,, Because the match produced already a staggering one in a billion duel to be seriously considered by many as the greatest world title game ever played /definitely watched live … move by move by more […]
Acers’ World Chess Championship Commentary
Read full thread here: Carlsen Wins Sixth Game Of World Championship; So Annotates! (US Chess)
Throwback Thursday
Originally published May 30, 2018. Worldwide new FIRST EVER photo of Jude Acers WORLD CHESS TABLE JUDE ACERS WITH HIS FELINNI 8 1/2 SERIOUS BUSINESS WORLD INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNEY SUNGLASSES … MOMENTS AFTER BEING HELD TO A DRAW BY “NO LOSING CHANCES” VERSUS THE ONE THE ONLY ANNABELLE MACNEAL/CINEMA PRO […]
Throwback Thursday: CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/April 5, 2017
ARTHUR BISGUIER DIES AT 87 … THIS JUST IN FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES … America’s chess legend is gone. Chess grandmaster Arthur Bisquier, the last living witness to the entire 1950-2000 fabulous era United States grandmaster team of chess giants (RESHEVSKY, FINE, DENKER THE BYRNE BROTHERS, ROSSOLIMO, BENKO FISCHER, […]
Throwback Thursday: Kane Webb’s ‘The Great Jude Acers’
The Great Jude Acers by Kane Webb/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette September 2, 2007 LITTLE ROCK — NEW ORLEANS “Still five dollars a game?” I ask the man in the red beret, his nose buried in the New York Times. “Have a seat!” says Jude Acers, stuffing the Times under his folding table […]