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Michael Tisserand Documents a Day at the World Chess Table and Wandering the FQ with Jude Acers

This entry was posted in Chess History Chess News Jude on April 8, 2024 by editor

For the full article by Michael Tisserand, please follow this link.

Jude Acers Turns 80

This entry was posted in Chess History Chess News Happy Visitors to the World Chess Table Jude New Orleans Chess on April 7, 2024 by editor

Throwback Thursday: “we were chess players”

This entry was posted in Chess History Jude on January 25, 2024 by editor

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 […]

The Great Adrian L. McAuley

This entry was posted in Chess History New Orleans Chess on December 15, 2023 by editor

For more on McAuley, check out this Oral History interview with Jude Acers.

Replay: Throwback Thursday

This entry was posted in Chess History Throwback Thursday on November 16, 2023 by editor

Originally posted June 16, 2021.

The Emulator

This entry was posted in Chess History Chess News Jude New Orleans New Orleans Chess on November 12, 2023 by editor

Richard Shorman (1938-2023) [UPDATED] 2

This entry was posted in Chess History Chess News and tagged Richard Shorman on August 28, 2023 by editor

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 […]

A Happy Visitor to Iceland

This entry was posted in Chess History and tagged bobby fischer iceland on May 13, 2023 by editor

Acers Responds to L’affaire Niemann

This entry was posted in Chess History Chess News Jude and tagged carlsen niemann scandal world chess table on February 5, 2023 by editor

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 Chess Cave

This entry was posted in Chess History Chess News New Orleans Chess and tagged chess cave chess tourism Hikaru Nakamura Jude Acers new orleans on January 18, 2023 by editor

Time Capsule Photos

This entry was posted in Chess History Happy Visitors to the World Chess Table Jude on December 21, 2022 by editor

Throwback Thursday: “we were chess players”

This entry was posted in Chess History Throwback Thursday on December 15, 2022 by editor

Throwback Thursday: Tisserand’s ‘Fischer King’

This entry was posted in Chess History New Orleans Chess Throwback Thursday and tagged don wagner fischer king michael tisserand USCF Chess Life on October 13, 2022 by editor

SEPTEMBER 2015/THE all time great Tisserand documentary masterwork … hundreds of hours of labor… WITH MASSIVE just breaking AUDIO UP ON US CHESS FEDERATION WEB PAGE [player of episode embedded above] … The time is now … WE ARE THRILLED TO PRESENT ONE MO TIME … THIS MONSTER OLDIE BUT […]