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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: 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 […]
In Memoriam: Russell (Rusty) Miller, May 30, 1942 – Dec. 29, 2020
Jude Acers (Part XV: The Price is Austin of “The Road,” originally published in the Berkeley Barb, Sep 20-26 & Sep 27-Oct 3, 1974): It will be Miller who will watch in absolute awe as you move from $50 an appearance to a $1,000 per shot attraction. He is a […]
ChessFlash News/May 27, 2020/Throwback Thursday Update
NEW YORK CHESS GRANDMASTER IRINA KRUSH HIT REPEATEDLY WITH COVID-19 VIRUS/NARROWLY SURVIVES FOUR TRIPS TO EMERGENCY ROOMS … LEADS TEAM USA SUPER GM CHESS TEAM TO WORLD ONLINE NATIONS CUP FINALS TIE VERSUS CHINA MEDIA ALERT THREE QUARTERS OF A PAGE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH TWO PHOTOGRAPHS This just in from […]
Chessflash World News/Nov 24, 2019
CHESSLAB’S MONSTER ON THE ROAD CHESS MACHINE/PROFESSIONAL CHESS MASTER JUDE ACERS “MR. HUMBLE” OF NEW ORLEANS … (20 years CHESSLAB chess columnist/SAVAGE COMMENTATOR !!) … now fully sponsored, cocked, loaded and ready to play in the 2020 FIDE SENIOR WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP in Assisi, Italy, Nov 6-16, 2020. Will also […]
ChessFlash World News/Oct 22, 2019
This just in…ISLE OF MAN -UK … October 21 …155 PLAYER MONSTER WORLD “GRAND SWISS TOURNAMENT” IS OVER … with a fantastic come from behind last round victory over England’s D. Howell … thirty year old WANG HAO of China — winner on tiebreak — split $120,000 with American F. […]
ChessFlash World News: Aug 26, 2019 [Updated]
CHESS PROBLEM WIZARD/SURVIVOR MAESTRO/PAL BENKO “Mr. Benko Gambit” DIES AT AGE 91 This just in from the New York Times and confirmed by chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar … Mr. Benko will forever be remembered for being aside 1972 world chess champion R. J Fischer … indeed almost all epic Fischer […]
RIP Jean Ann Troendle
Jude Introduces GM Irina Krush from K&D Photo + Video on Vimeo. Jean Ann Troendle JANUARY 22, 1949 – JULY 11, 2019 “JEAN TROENDLE/LEGENDARY CAJUN CHESS COMPANY OWNER WHO JUST DIED IS AT THE VERY START of VIDEO HERE TALKING TO ME AS I GO IN … She held hundreds […]
Hot Links: Triumph & Cheating
Zagreb GCT: Carlsen amazes with yet another triumph 58-year-old GM Igors Rausis accused of cheating
ChessFlash World News/June 9, 2019
New York — $28 million “Chess in the Schools” sponsor LEWIS B. CULLMAN “the desk calendar king” dies at 100 in Stamford, Connecticut … this just in from Robert D. McFadden of the New York Times (full page New York Times obituary June 8 ). The man who gave one […]
ChessFlash World News/June 9, 2019
This just breaking in Oslo, Norway … Norwegian Chess Federation /home of the world chess champion MAGNUS CARLSEN has its privileges … confirms 5 million dollars plus sponsorship offer with no questions asked from Kindred Online Gambling group. CHESSLAB TOLD YOU FIRST THAT CHESS WAS, WITH SOCCER … indeed … […]
CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/May 15, 2019
World chess federation ends “fraud by draw agreement” to move 40/declares 2 hours flat/40 move time control /NEVER ANY TIME ADDED … ALSO declares knockout ELIMINATION in all world candidate/final world title match This just in from the brand new Lausanne, Switzerland World Chess Federation (FIDE) headquarters: “Fraud by draw […]
Morphy Chess & Cultural Center Opens in New Orleans
Via Chess Life Online: The Morphy Chess & Cultural Center (“Morphy”) celebrated its grand opening in New Orleans on Friday, April 5 with a ceremonial ribbon cutting, tandem simuls and one heckuva party! The opening was the start to a weekend of chess where Louisiana would be running multiple events […]