CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Jan. 6, 2014

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THE JUDE ACERS 1968-1976 CALIFORNIA CHESS REPORTER YEARS … VOLUMES 7-9 COMPENDIUMS PUBLISHED WORLDWIDE … San Francisco, California … MY BACK PAGES … The Jude Acers fiery 3,000 day epic California chess journey, direct from crash landing at San Francisco chess theorist/game historian Max Burkett’s Haight Street flat (July 1968) … to immediately penning every imaginable role/ editorial, annotation to every last issue of the legendary CALIFORNIA CHESS REPORTER (Guthrie McClain, 25 year publisher) 1968-1975 … then … written in 90 straight frenzied final days at 2000 Broadway … my hurricane fond farewell to San Francisco … “LONE PINE 1975 GRANDMASTER CHESS” tournament book just before climbing aboard a Greyhound bus … (Amazon.com). Many thanks to crack California chess historian-the indefatigable KERRY LAWLESS (MR. CHESSDRYAD.COM) for my back pages …Very special thanks to the one and only, weird and wonderful “Wild Bill Hickok’” of the chess world … Mr. Sam Sloan, for getting reprint volumes to amazon.com via Sloan eccentric electricity … Beginning with “Motorcycle Max” Burkett, Fritz the poet, McClain, Addison, Blackstone, Ramirez, City Lights Bookstore (Shig, Ferlinghetti), Herb Caen and Coppola, Grefe and Mary, The Waterman, Miller, Tarjan, Browne and Raquel, World Junior Champion Julio Kaplan, Bills and Subu-the-Indian, SUPERVOLK RICHARD SHORMAN, Caradian, (Coit tower and that mysterious woman in black), Telegragh hill, Janis Joplin and Sunshine in the Coffee Gallery/ Coppola (the Godfather) in café Trieste, Richard “Trout Fishing” Brautigan with the red headed artist in Spec’s and Vesurvios … The Great Radaiken and Topless Carol Doda, Hall from Texas … the Berkeley Barb (Max Sheer) … and City of San Francisco magazine (Kathleen Black and The Hinckle) Acers chess columns … THE BURGERMEISTER … rock promoter Bill Graham at Fillmore West … the Mechanics Institute Chess Club (board leader and chess giant killer/science fiction writer Carroll Capps–who met me as I came in the door … and above all THE GREAT BENDIT!) … babes and coffee everywhere naturally … it was all so staggering, the unbelievable Kerouac ride amidst ink in every one of those California Chess Reporter issues … (244 Kearney Street 4th floor!) … fortune beyond measure to have this chaotic circus unfolding daily. Gone.

— Jude Acers

 

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