Next (Free!!) Screening: 3:30 p.m., Wed., April 3 at the New Orleans Jazz Museum
Read more »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 […]
FIDE stepped in it with this nonsense that Jennifer Shahade calls out, brilliantly tying it to the Chess #MeToo movement: Last week, the International Chess Federation, or FIDE, announced new regulations on transgender players, including new restrictions on transgender women competing in women’s events and stripping trans men of previously won […]
Originally posted May 17, 2021. For more from the “Standing Tall” series, please go here.
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 […]
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 […]
New commentary from Jude Acers in the comments to “Caruana Wins Airthings Masters II” @ Chess Life Online:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
