St. Louis Missouri USA FRENCHMAN MAXIME VACHIER-LAGRAVE (AGE 26) SHOCKS THE CHESS WORLD … WINS THE MONSTER 9 GAME $300,000 SINQUEFIELD CHESS CUP TODAY … Mr. Lagrave (already long known world wide as “MVL”) rode a fantastic come from behind victory against world chess champion Magnus Carlsen … added two other […]
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, […]
San Francisco, California — THIS JUST IN FROM 2016 WORLD CHAMPION CHESS OLYMPIAD TEAM CAPTAIN MR. JOHN DONALDSON–“THE DEAN OF AMERICAN CHESS” and DIRECTOR OF THE MECHANICS INSTITUTE CHESS ROOMS, 57 POST STREET, 4TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO–it really is true … and the 5 mega event “Grand Tour” chess circuit’s […]
Editor’s Note: This is a quick edit with only a single angle but sound is decent. Jude Introduces GM Irina Krush from K&D Photo + Video on Vimeo.
From Michael Tisserand in the Advocate: Fifty-one years later, Jude Acers can still hear the champion’s footsteps approaching him. It was late on a Thursday night — March 24, 1964 — at the Young Women’s Christian Association on Gravier Street. The YWCA’s old floor creaked when you walked on it, […]
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 -eration, strung with ribbons and with honors […]
Jude Acers’ 1977 bus station interview with Arnold S. Denker: Jude, I was there. I was at the chess club the day the great Cuban passed. It was to my left. There was a great commotion. I heard, “Help me … help me with my coat.” Jose was surrounded by […]
By Sam Sloan The chess world has been in shock since the news came yesterday morning that Grandmaster Walter Browne died early yesterday morning. For the last 49 years, I have been holding a small secret which I felt should best not be revealed as long as Browne was alive. I […]
6-TIME US CHESS CHAMPION GRANDMASTER WALTER S. BROWNE DIES WITHOUT WARNING IN HIS SLEEP IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (AFTER SUCCESSFUL PLUS SCORE NINTH PLACE TIE AT THE LAS VEGAS INTERNATIONAL CHESS FESTIVAL/CHESS CAMP LECTURES/SUCCESSFUL 25 BOARD SIMULTANEOUS CHESS EXHIBITION) AT THE HOME OF VETERAN CHESS MASTER RON GROSS … DIES […]
H. NAKAMURA wins $45,000 … IS 2015 US CHESS CHAMPION … St. Louis, Missouri … H. Nakamura today employed a rare Jude Acers “ITALIAN GAMBIT SYSTEM” SIDELINE to defeat A. ONISCHUK … winning the US National Chess Championship undefeated with a tremendous 8-3 score … world top ten grandmaster W. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ST.LOUIS MISSOURI … $400,000 SINQUEFIELD CUP … ITALIAN CARUANA HEADED FOR MONSTER SEVENTH STRAIGHT WIN IN MOMENTS … RETAINS STAGGERING UNBELIEVABLE THREE POINT LEAD OVER SECOND PLACE WORLD TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPION MAGNUS CARLSEN IN HIGHEST RATED CHESS TOURNAMENT OF ALL TIME … WITH THREE GAMES REMAINING A SINGLE DRAW WILL WIN […]
WORLD CHESS CHAMPION CARLSEN TO PLAY SIMULTANEOUS BLINDFOLD (MENTAL) BRAZIL CHESS EXHIBITION VERSUS BLIND CHESS PLAYERS March 5 … OSLO,NORWAY MARCH 3, 2014 This just in … World #1 FIDE rated (2881!) MAGNUS CARLSEN will definitely play a world wide INTERNET broadcast chess simultaneous blindfolded exhibition versus visually impaired players […]
MAJOR CHESS MOVIE “LIFE OF A KING” JUST … TWO WEEKS AWAY The CHESS movie “LIFE OF A KING“ JUST WEEKS AWAY FROM YOUR TOWN … this just in from Dallas, Texas via the one, the only, truly mysterious “THE CHIEF” of FATKATZ INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE CHESS PROMOTIONS … a knock ‘em dead CHESS […]
The 12-game, $5 MILLION WORLD CHESS TITLE ANAND-CARLSEN CHESS MATCH SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9,2013 … Chennai, India ….with one million dollars apiece already guaranteed ….
