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Make sure you don’t miss next year’s New Orleans Chess Fest ,,, Jude Acers @ the 2014 New Orleans Chess Fest from K&D Photo + Video on Vimeo.
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Unpublished Files: The first two games played at the Gazebo (possibly)
In our ongoing series, The Unpublished Files of Jude Acers, we recently unearthed what are likely the earliest known games played by Jude at The Gazebo on Decatur Street, New Orleans. The Gazebo became Jude permanent residence in 1981. No sooner had Jude set up his chess table at […]
Unpublished Files: Acers v. Marker
From our collection of Jude’s games, combinations, select endgames and unpublished manuscripts – can you spot the win? Jude’s chess table was set up at one time on Jackson Square before his permanent move to Decatur street. The position was the conclusion of a ‘fee’ game played against a Mr. […]
Unpublished Files: The LA Chess Swindle 1
Many of our regular JudeAcers.com readers know that Jude contributed annotations and short stories to many chess publications before the dawn of the internet. Many of his articles were published worldwide and in a variety of chess periodicals of the day. Some magazines, columnists and newspapers did not publish his […]
Two New Orleans Chessplayers Named to the 43rd Annual PAUL MORPHY MEMORIAL 2015 Chess Championship
New Orleans, Louisiana December 10, 2015 TWO NEW ORLEANS CHESSPLAYERS NAMED TO THE 43RD PAUL MORPHY MEMORIAL FIELD A legendary and mysterious anonymous donor … indeed … all the cash behind 43 straight Paul Morphy chess events … today listed two New Orleans chessplayer invitations to the November 1, 2015 […]
The best of Jude Acers’ chess writings, selected games, combinations and endgames
Dear Jude Acers fans, We are in the process of compiling select Jude games, favorite combinations, favorite endgame excerpts, endgame studies and unpublished Jude annotations and articles for a book on Jude’s chess content. We are deeply interested in publishing this book preserving Jude’s unique contributions to chess analysis and […]
CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Nov 19, 2014
New Orleans, Louisiana LEGENDARY WORLD CHESS CHAMPION PAUL MORPHY’S HOUSE GETS $20 MILLION DOLLAR FACELIFT … REOPENS WITH MORPHY MOMENTO MEMORIAL CHESS SET AND TABLE ROOM IN BRENNAN’S RESTAURANT NOVEMBER 25,2014 … Brennan’s is already serving people daily with construction merrily progressing non stop … Paul Morphy (1837-1884) … the […]
Lusher Simul
Photos by K & D Photo + Video from the simul fundraiser at Lusher Elementary School in New Orleans today …
CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Nov 13, 2014
ABC TV/CHANNEL 26 WGNO New Orleans 42ND Paul Morphy Memorial monster “BIG KAHUNA” CHESS TOURNEY TYLER WING ‘WINGIN IT” television COVERAGE POSTED WORLDWIDE BY K&D Photo + Video (DEREK BRIDGES AND THE KAITLIN HANRAHAN)… MONSTER CHESS PROMO EVENT WAS BROADCAST FIVE TIMES TWO WEEKS AGO … New Orleans, Louisiana Chesslab […]
Tyler Wing, A Big Kahuna
You have seen Tyler Wing’s report about the 2014 Paul Morphy Memorial Chess Tournament on WGNO-TV, haven’t you?
Jude Acers Simul Fundraiser for Zervigon/Patterson
JUDE ACERS CHESS SIMUL ON SAT., NOV. 15 TO ASSIST ZERVIGON/PATTERSON FAMILY As many of you know, Lusher chess player Ana Zervigon’s family recently experienced a tragic fire. Chess legend Jude Acers has generously offered to play a simultaneous chess game (“simul”) against as many as fifty opponents, to help […]
CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Oct 9, 2014
New Orleans, Louisiana THE MARILYN VS. THE WING…. CHESS BATTLE OF THE CENTURY! FILMED FOR TELEVISION ABSOLUTELY FREE FOR ALL PLAYERS AND SPECTATORS … “CHESS BATTLE OF THE CENTURY”… 42ND 2014 PAUL MORPHY MEMORIAL CHESS TOURNAMENT CHALLENGE … 2 games … MATCHES DEFENDING ”BIG KAHUNA” CHESS CHAMPION ’THE MARILYN” OF NEW […]