Michael Tisserand Documents a Day at the World Chess Table and Wandering the FQ with Jude Acers
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Happy Visitors to “The Man in the Red Beret” Screenings at Zeitgeist Theater & Lounge
JudeAcers.com encourages all readers to bookmark Zeitgeist Theater & Lounge’s website (www.zeitgeistnola.org) and check out its amazing array of programming. The next screening of “The Man in the Red Beret” will be at 5:45 p.m., Saturday, January 13, 2024, at the Abita Springs International Film Festival.
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 […]
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 […]
Jude Acers: “THE FINAL WORD! THE ENTIRE CHESS WORLD PLAYS…. “
New commentary from Jude Acers in the comments to “Caruana Wins Airthings Masters II” @ Chess Life Online:
Acers Responds to L’affaire Niemann
John Hartmann @ Chess Life: One of the enduring values of print journalism is that it allows authors and readers time to think and digest. Those heady September days were thick with accusations and innuendo, and in real-time, it was very hard to do anything but surf the social media […]
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 […]