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Read more »104 YEAR OLD CHESSPLAYER FINISHES THE TATA STEEL AMATEUR INTERNATIONAL … Wijk Ann Zee, Holland — Our many correspondents on Chessbase News blogs report a sprightly 104 year old Mr. Johan Hulst competed in the 2015 amateur Tata Steel chess tourney … he may have been rusty … his last tourney […]
World Chess Champion Carlsen Wins monster Tata Steel 14 grandmaster tourney today… Wijk ann Zee, Holland — with 6 wins, one loss, 6 draws, World rapid,classical and blitz triple crown world chess champion M.Carlsen of Norway, highest elo rated chess grandmaster of all time, rolled to first place with easily […]
Polish Grandmaster shocks world #1-2 Carlsen and Caruana in Holland Tata Steel 15 grandmaster event Wijk ann Zee, Netherlands … talk about the experience of a lifetime! … in just 72 hours Polish grandmaster RADASLAW WOJTASZEK mowed down the world’s top two rated players — Norway’s Carlsen (world champion) and […]
MASSIVE 20 MILLION DOLLAR RENOVATION OF PAUL MORPHY CHESS HOUSE, i.e. “BREAKFAST AT BRENNAN’S” HITS NEW YORK TIMES JANUARY 20, 2015 New Orleans, Louisiana … Chesslab readers we told you all about it first! … It is true and it is big … despite a family feud, a real war […]
Make sure you don’t miss next year’s New Orleans Chess Fest ,,, Jude Acers @ the 2014 New Orleans Chess Fest from K&D Photo + Video on Vimeo.
We present a favorite of Jude’s, the Lynn Drury Band performing “I Know You Want Me” (from her latest CD, Come To My House) at her recent birthday show at Chickie Wah Wah in New Orleans, LA: “I Know You Want Me” from K&D Photo + Video on Vimeo. Cut 6 explained from […]
Acers v. Soltis, 1978 – a great game from the past In our continuing series, The Unpublished Files, we have another first. For your review, we present to you a game that has not seen light of day since 1978. The Acers v. Soltis game was played in the National […]
In our ongoing series, The Unpublished Files of Jude Acers, we recently unearthed what are likely the earliest known games played by Jude at The Gazebo on Decatur Street, New Orleans. The Gazebo became Jude permanent residence in 1981. No sooner had Jude set up his chess table at […]
Yes, you may now play an online game of chess against “a Duchampian ghost.” Makes me wonder what a chess set of readymades would be like. Update: And for Duchamp information, check out this artsy.net page. h/t Dish
These videos are from our time in Opatija, Croatia for the 2013 FIDE World Seniors Chess Championships. We made these videos to stand alone or to be watched in sequence. Featured in addition to Jude Acers is Marilyn “The Marilyn” Pelias from New Orleans who also competed in Croatia, coached by […]
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 […]
NEW YORK TIMES HITS WITH MONSTER ARTICLE ON CHESS … CARLSEN AND WORLD #2 CARUANA … New York, NY … Ben Greenman in the New York Times yesterday released a major article, “Young Grandmasters Try To Make Chess Cool.” You have to read it to believe how wonderful these times are a-changing! […]
