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in the process of compiling select Jude games, favorite combinations, favorite endgame excerpts, endgame studies and unpublished Jude annotations and articles for a book on Jude’s chess content.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: […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Nov 23, 2013

WORLD CHESS CHAMPION CARLSEN OF NORWAY RETAINS TITLE TODAY WITH FEROCIOUS “SMALL BALL” ENDGAME SOCHI, RUSSIA November 23, 2014 … FINAL SCORE OF THREE GAMES TO ONE … TIME RAN OUT TODAY IN THE 12 GAME WORLD TITLE REMATCH WITH V. ANAND OF INDIA … WORLD CHESS CHAMPION NORWEGIAN WONDER KID […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Nov 19, 2014

New Orleans, Louisiana LEGENDARY WORLD CHESS CHAMPION PAUL MORPHY’S HOUSE GETS $20 MILLION DOLLAR FACELIFT … REOPENS WITH MORPHY MOMENTO MEMORIAL CHESS SET AND TABLE ROOM IN BRENNAN’S RESTAURANT NOVEMBER 25,2014 … Brennan’s is already serving people daily with construction merrily progressing non stop … Paul Morphy (1837-1884) …  the […]


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Nov 16, 2014

World Chess Champion Gets Miracle save after blundering …Goes one game up with 6 to go … Sochi, Russia It all coming together for the chess golden boy — the Norwegian chess champion of the world, MAGNUS CARLSEN, notched a miraculous, precious one game lead with 6 world chess championship […]


CHESSFLASH NEWS/Nov 15, 2014

ONE MILLION DOLLARS UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED OCTOBER 2015 TOURNEY … AGAIN GUARANTEED BY AMY LEE Vancouver, British Columbia … feisty chess financier, Amy Lee, the banking force behind the fully paid $1,000,000 guaranteed “Millionaire Open” in Las Vegas today guaranteed via her worldwide newsletter that another is coming, also in October […]


Lusher Simul

Photos by K & D Photo + Video from the simul fundraiser at Lusher Elementary School in New Orleans today …


CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/Nov 13, 2014

ABC TV/CHANNEL 26 WGNO New Orleans 42ND Paul Morphy Memorial monster “BIG KAHUNA” CHESS TOURNEY TYLER WING ‘WINGIN IT” television COVERAGE POSTED WORLDWIDE BY K&D Photo + Video (DEREK BRIDGES AND THE KAITLIN HANRAHAN)… MONSTER CHESS PROMO EVENT WAS BROADCAST FIVE TIMES TWO WEEKS AGO … New Orleans, Louisiana Chesslab […]


Tyler Wing, A Big Kahuna

You have seen Tyler Wing’s report about the 2014 Paul Morphy Memorial Chess Tournament on WGNO-TV, haven’t you?


New Orleans Chess Fest in the News

ChessKids.com: The first-ever New Orleans Chess Fest teamed up with ChessKid.com in October. A full day of simuls, blindfold chess, “living” chess, and even an appearance from Paul Morphy capped a full day of chess. Nola.com: Mike Klein, content manager for chess.com and chesskid.com and the headliner for Chess Fest, said […]


Update Re: Saturday Simul Fundraiser

A coupe updates from Michael Tisserand about Jude’s Saturday simul fundraiser: First, because of the great generosity of many, the Zervigons report that they have received the financial help to get back on their feet, so they are requesting that people help out the Broadmoor people who experienced the tragic […]


Man v. Machine

Thanks, Boing Boing: Police investigating screams emerging from an apartment raided it only to find a chess player anguished at the failure of his inept strategies.


Jude Acers Simul Fundraiser for Zervigon/Patterson

JUDE ACERS CHESS SIMUL ON SAT., NOV. 15 TO ASSIST ZERVIGON/PATTERSON FAMILY As many of you know, Lusher chess player Ana Zervigon’s family recently experienced a tragic fire. Chess legend Jude Acers has generously offered to play a simultaneous chess game (“simul”) against as many as fifty opponents, to help […]


2014 WSCC: Pelias v. Hoose [Updated]

A note from Jude Acers: MARILYN SHOCKS WITH FEROCIOUS  CLEVER UNEXPECTED TRANSPOSITION FROM FRENCH DEFENSE TO SMITH MORA MATULOVIC GAMBIT AND WORKS IT OUT AT THE BOARD … SCORES THIRD WORLD CHESS FEDERATION POINT ON THE WALL BOARD.   An absolute must to feature worldwide …THS IS HOW A GREAT PLAYER DEVELOPS. Update: […]