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Ice cold! Someone stole The Water Man’s bike!

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But you can help him get a new one.

Do you remember The Water Man? He’s featured in the recent Kickstarter video promoting “The Man in the Red Beret” documentary. Check through to a video … Click here to get to Funddat.org where you can pledge your support. We only need to raise $475 to get Lawrence a new 3-wheeler and a couple U-locks.

Got any games with Jude you would like to share? 3

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We recently received a request from Michael Ciamarra who is trying to pull together a collection of Jude’s games and positions. From Michael:

If you can circulate a message to the Jude Acers community that any game scores they would like to send me of their games with Jude as I am in the process now of collecting games and positions for a book on Jude’s chess play. They could also send me combinations or endgames they played with Jude that might be of interest.

If you can help, just leave a comment to this post and we’ll forward your email to Michael and he’ll contact you.

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you [Updated to thank you more] 1

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We did it!

Below are the names of the 100 101 102 103 105 Backers (checks still welcome to help with equipment upgrades, just email dsbnola[at]gmail[dot]com) who have pledged $7,254 of support for The Man in the Red Beret, a documentary about Jude Acers by Class Action Films. These 100 Backers have made it possible for us to follow Jude to Croatia next month for the FIDE World Senior Chess Championship and we’re now collecting funds for equipment upgrades.

Thank you to new Backers, returning Backers, and for all the Backers who couldn’t afford to pledge but still helped promote our Kickstarter campaign.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

  • Patricia Doran
  • David Bridges
  • Steven Thorsen
  • Thomas Long
  • Anita Cage
  • Scott Allison
  • Steve Scales
  • Bart Everson
  • Charles Broome
  • Barnaby Chancellor
  • Jamie Crawford
  • Jeff Burson
  • Tom Long
  • Robert Bell
  • Michele Steinbacher
  • Kim Martin
  • Kiran Frey
  • Joe Hanrahan
  • Victor Golubic
  • Michele Richard
  • Sean Denoyer
  • Cara E. Steger
  • Barry Yeoman
  • John Pearson
  • Erica Therio
  • Jimmy Michaels
  • John R. Texeira
  • Richard Sarver
  • Katherine Bearden
  • David Martin Bridges
  • Dan Marks
  • Carlos Luis Pujol
  • Laura Ponoroff
  • Allison Freeman
  • Paul St. Pierre
  • Michael Tisserand
  • Marilyn Pelias
  • baby mahoney
  • Judith C. Palmer
  • Bob Hate & The Eddy Band
  • Bill Kemp
  • Karen Miller
  • Donna Siegmund
  • Paula Ruff
  • Lee Vinson
  • Sonya Rodrigue
  • Linda Hayes
  • Maitri Erwin
  • Dave
  • James J. Pancrazio
  • Robin Suber
  • Irel Sears
  • Ron & Bernadette Marks
  • “Uncle” Monahan
  • Stacie Langlois
  • Arthur E. Marlin
  • Lori Craven-Doss
  • Renee Hinz
  • Ru Freeman
  • Lori Parsek
  • Colin A Davis
  • Scott Sandler & Jodi Rieger
  • Meredith Bivens
  • Kim Potowski
  • Michael Butcher
  • Cynthia Daffron
  • Mike Olander
  • Michael Smither
  • Adam Meckler
  • glcannon
  • Analia Saban
  • Karen Gadbois
  • Jamey St. Pierre
  • Kelly Stier
  • Thomas Roberts
  • Dan Mitchell
  • Rick Simonson
  • Jerrold Neugarten
  • Patrick Armstrong
  • Meenoo Fugate
  • Ravi Howard
  • Steve Usdin
  • Sam Jasper
  • Craig Isenberg
  • Josh N. Saunders
  • Darcy Courteau
  • Monica Ponoroff
  • Christopher J. Dennis
  • Joey Hanrahan
  • broom
  • George C. Freeman, III
  • Jordan Ollestad
  • Arica Laurel
  • Melissa Perrett Cook
  • Legends of Enlightenment
  • jamie berger
  • Daniel Vidnes
  • Matthew Marks
  • Nicholas
  • Carlos Provencio
  • Ed Wicker
  • Russell Miller
  • Jane Bouldin
  • Sarah Mead Smith
  • John Hicks

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“There’ll be no need for me to cry”: Part 2: In his own words

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Drawing with Browne

I’m getting paid twenty dollars running around with Richard Shoreman, who has 200,000 miles on his Volkswagen, fantastic man with glasses, very anemic-looking, tiny short guy, wonderful human being, friend of firemen, could use their Xerox facilities anytime he wants, teaches firemen how to play chess, policeman, has a chess course at Haywood University, he writes a full page in The Haywood Daily Review, a chess column, and he drives me around California to do prison exhibitions at DVI, Deuel Vocational Institute, which I played just after drawing with Grandmaster Browne, he arrives, I’m out waiting to get picked up after the exhibition having drawn with Grandmaster Browne, I’m not sure if he’s heard about it, he circles the flagpole ten times without looking at me, just drives, I was standing in the middle by the flagpole, and he doesn’t even look in my eyes. It was the greatest compliment imaginable. Fantastic man.

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS

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October 9, 2013

US CHESS GREAT H. NAKAMURA IS WORLD #5 RATED  PLAYER … St.  Louis, Missouri … up to the second World Chess Federation (FIDE ) Live ratings of the Top 5 chess grandmasters are:
  1. carlsen illustrationM. CARLSEN (ELO 2870) — the real deal, the highest  rated player of all time and just 22  YEARS OLD, a Norwegian chess millionaire several times over … he goes for it ALL … world title play versus #8 World Chess Champion V. Anand  (ELO 2775) India … JUST 30 days away in Chennai, India … it is going to be  real war folks – many games could go 100 moves .. endgames are going to be king versus king .. “I just  feel we have an obligation to  play out the games” — Magnus Carlsen
  2. V. KRAMNIK  of Russia (ELO 2796) — age 38
  3. L. ARONIAN, ARMENIA’S GIANT  (ELO 2793)– 31 year old WORLD TEAM CHESS CHAMPION BOARD ONE
  4. F. CARUANA  of Italy (ELO 2791) — Age 21
  5. H. NAKAMURA  OF THE UNITED STATES (ELO 2788) —  Age 25

— Jude Acers

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The Other Shoe Drops

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Borislav Ivanov had already been banned once for suspicions of cheating when forty Bulgarian players signed a boycott. But he allegedly gave cheating another go. From a fascinating report at ChessBase.com who interviewed the player who seems to have broken Ivanov’s code,  Grandmaster Maxim Dlugy:

So we all go into this room: the director, the head of security, my friend, myself and Borislav. They have metal detectors and go over every place very carefully if it beeps, and show that there is nothing there. The security guy says at the start “Look, I’m going to search him, you’re going to watch. If you want something else you tell us, but whatever it is we will do the exact same thing on Borislav’s opponent. I said yes, of course, no problem. This was a very funny moment. The search is completed and my friend goes “Okay, and now take off your shoes.” The security guy looks at me. Without a word I take off my shoes, I take off my socks and throw them to the floor – just ba-doom, there, I’m done, now show me your shoes, please.

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