Michael Tisserand Documents a Day at the World Chess Table and Wandering the FQ with Jude Acers
For the full article by Michael Tisserand, please follow this link.
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Throwback Thursday: In the spirit of Paul Morphy – Don “The Mon” Westfall’s Smothered Mate
Originally published November 9, 2018. Jude Acers was busy making sure the recently arrived participants who will compete in the Paul Morphy Memorial Chess Tournament were paired off to play countless, practice games. Two days of intense chess competitions awaited everyone. Jude admonished: you need the practice now! Not later […]
Throwback Thursday: “we were chess players”
Originally published at JudeAcers.com July 15, 2015. By Dennis Fritzinger we were chess players once, and young; our songs are sung, our bells are rung. our names, that once tripped off the tongue, are now less than a heap of dung. while victory strews her wreaths among the present gen […]
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.
Throwback Thursday: Jude Acers Proclaims THE IMMORTAL EIGHT: “THE GREATEST STOP-THE-CAR-NOW-I-GOTTA-HEAR-THIS”
Originally published Oct 22, 2018 THE SOUNDS THAT ELECTRIFIED IN SYMPHONIC ROCK … your car just SHOOK … Yes, the haunting whispers of time … Even your grandmother was shocked/adored every moment … the immortal eight live in your car for all time: “ODE TO L.A”/THE RAVONETTES … so good […]
Gambit Promotes ‘The Man in the Red Beret’ Screening
For the full article by Will Coviello, go here. P.S. A couple factual errors in the article: Acers graduated high school in Mandeville, not Kenner. And he was 6-years-old, not 4, when he mother perished in an airplane crash.
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 […]
A Very Special Visitor to the World Chess Table
Yesterday, Kristen Brabble and David Sharpe of Rocky Mount, NC picked up their newly adopted 6-day-old baby in Pensacola and drove to New Orleans so they could tell Jude Acers they were naming the baby after him. Please allow me to introduce Jude Bennett Sharpe. (This is the second baby […]
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 […]
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)