“The Greatest Game of All Time”

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.

Lynn Drury Performs Cut 6 Live [Updated: “Sugar on the Floor”] 1

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 […]

Unpublished Files: Acers v. Soltis (1978)

Acers v. Soltis, 1978 – a great game from the past In our continuing series, The Unpublished Files, we have another first.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 […]

Unpublished Files: The first two games played at the Gazebo (possibly)

  In our ongoing series, The Unpublished Files of Jude Acers, we recently unearthed what are likely the earliest known games played by Jude at The Gazebo on Decatur Street, New Orleans.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 […]

You v. Duchamp [Updated]

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

The Man in the Red Beret … in Croatia 1

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 […]

Unpublished Files: Acers v. Marker

From our collection of Jude’s games, combinations, select endgames and unpublished manuscripts – can you spot the win?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. […]

Unpublished Files: The LA Chess Swindle 1

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 […]

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Dec 13, 2014

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! […]

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Dec 10, 2014

Jude Acers in 2015-2016 World Chess Federation Championship (FIDE) tourneys … New Orleans, Louisiana Chess lab monster road machine Jude Acers confirmed he will definitely play two FIDE World Senior Chess Championship tourney events … Nov 9-23, 2015 Aqui Terme, Italy 11 game grandmaster title qualifier followed by the Nov […]

The best of Jude Acers’ chess writings, selected games, combinations and endgames

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 […]

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Dec 8, 2014

US great H. Nakamura (St. Louis , Mo.) … shock and awe performance today … beats world #2 ranked Caruana, Anand, Giri, Adams … rolls to victory with 9.5 points from 10 games … wins World London Rapid Chess Tourney . Hear the sound of drumbeats! — Jude Acers BONUS: […]