Pawn Sacrifice Delivers

By Sam Sloan I was invited to an advanced screening of the movie Pawn Sacrifice held on Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 10AM in New York City, based on the fact that I had been a close friend of Bobby Fischer. I was invited to the screening by Katherine Matthews. […]


Remembering Bobby Fischer’s 1964 Simul/Lecture Tour 1

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, […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Sep 7, 2015

LONDON, ENGLAND — ITALIAN CHESSPLAYER SHOCKS WITH VIDEO CAMERA AND MORSE CODE ARM FLAPPING … IS REMOVED FOR CHEATING AFTER MOWING DOWN UNPRECEDENTED MASTER OPPONENTS … THIS JUST IN from the British Broadcasting World News/La Stampa Italian Newspaper … we told you FIRST Chesslab readers! … We are headed toward […]


Coach Jude @ The Ritz 2

Yesterday Jude coached The Marilyn as she took on Enis the Irritator at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans …


World Chess Table Awash in Barber Magnetic Chess Sets 1

K&D PHOTO+VIDEO REPLACEMENT TEAM HAS ARRIVED TO COVER … THE MORPHY PRIZES! AT THE JUDE ACERS WORLD CHESS TABLE ALREADY ON PUBLIC DISPLAY!! 20 PROMOTIONAL MORPHY TOURNEY PRIZE BARBER magnetic worldwide travel CHESS SETS FROM CHINA ARE ON THE WAY … Nick “The flambeau carrier” Tamm (of Acers & Tamm […]


A Poem from Dennis Fritzinger: we were chess players 1

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 […]


The Day Capabanca Died (March 7, 1942) [Updated with rare video]

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 […]


Walter Shawn Browne and his “Romantic Interlude”

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 […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/June 24, 2015 3

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 […]