WSCC Round 2: Pelias v. Titorenko
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Ice cold! Someone stole The Water Man’s bike!
But you can help him get a new one.
Do you remember The Water Man? He’s featured in the recent Kickstarter video promoting “The Man in the Red Beret” documentary. Check through to a video … Click here to get to Funddat.org where you can pledge your support. We only need to raise $475 to get Lawrence a new 3-wheeler and a couple U-locks.
CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS 9
October 30,2013
The 12-game, $5 MILLION WORLD CHESS TITLE ANAND-CARLSEN CHESS MATCH SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9,2013 … Chennai, India ….with one million dollars apiece already guaranteed ….
Got any games with Jude you would like to share? 3
We recently received a request from Michael Ciamarra who is trying to pull together a collection of Jude’s games and positions. From Michael:
If you can circulate a message to the Jude Acers community that any game scores they would like to send me of their games with Jude as I am in the process now of collecting games and positions for a book on Jude’s chess play. They could also send me combinations or endgames they played with Jude that might be of interest.
If you can help, just leave a comment to this post and we’ll forward your email to Michael and he’ll contact you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you [Updated to thank you more] 1
We did it!
Below are the names of the 100 101 102 103 105 Backers (checks still welcome to help with equipment upgrades, just email dsbnola[at]gmail[dot]com) who have pledged $7,254 of support for The Man in the Red Beret, a documentary about Jude Acers by Class Action Films. These 100 Backers have made it possible for us to follow Jude to Croatia next month for the FIDE World Senior Chess Championship and we’re now collecting funds for equipment upgrades.
Thank you to new Backers, returning Backers, and for all the Backers who couldn’t afford to pledge but still helped promote our Kickstarter campaign.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
- Patricia Doran
- David Bridges
- Steven Thorsen
- Thomas Long
- Anita Cage
- Scott Allison
- Steve Scales
- Bart Everson
- Charles Broome
- Barnaby Chancellor
- Jamie Crawford
- Jeff Burson
- Tom Long
- Robert Bell
- Michele Steinbacher
- Kim Martin
- Kiran Frey
- Joe Hanrahan
- Victor Golubic
- Michele Richard
- Sean Denoyer
- Cara E. Steger
- Barry Yeoman
- John Pearson
- Erica Therio
- Jimmy Michaels
- John R. Texeira
- Richard Sarver
- Katherine Bearden
- David Martin Bridges
- Dan Marks
- Carlos Luis Pujol
- Laura Ponoroff
- Allison Freeman
- Paul St. Pierre
- Michael Tisserand
- Marilyn Pelias
- baby mahoney
- Judith C. Palmer
- Bob Hate & The Eddy Band
- Bill Kemp
- Karen Miller
- Donna Siegmund
- Paula Ruff
- Lee Vinson
- Sonya Rodrigue
- Linda Hayes
- Maitri Erwin
- Dave
- James J. Pancrazio
- Robin Suber
- Irel Sears
- Ron & Bernadette Marks
- “Uncle” Monahan
- Stacie Langlois
- Arthur E. Marlin
- Lori Craven-Doss
- Renee Hinz
- Ru Freeman
- Lori Parsek
- Colin A Davis
- Scott Sandler & Jodi Rieger
- Meredith Bivens
- Kim Potowski
- Michael Butcher
- Cynthia Daffron
- Mike Olander
- Michael Smither
- Adam Meckler
- glcannon
- Analia Saban
- Karen Gadbois
- Jamey St. Pierre
- Kelly Stier
- Thomas Roberts
- Dan Mitchell
- Rick Simonson
- Jerrold Neugarten
- Patrick Armstrong
- Meenoo Fugate
- Ravi Howard
- Steve Usdin
- Sam Jasper
- Craig Isenberg
- Josh N. Saunders
- Darcy Courteau
- Monica Ponoroff
- Christopher J. Dennis
- Joey Hanrahan
- broom
- George C. Freeman, III
- Jordan Ollestad
- Arica Laurel
- Melissa Perrett Cook
- Legends of Enlightenment
- jamie berger
- Daniel Vidnes
- Matthew Marks
- Nicholas
- Carlos Provencio
- Ed Wicker
- Russell Miller
- Jane Bouldin
- Sarah Mead Smith
- John Hicks
“There’ll be no need for me to cry”: Part 2: In his own words
Drawing with Browne
I’m getting paid twenty dollars running around with Richard Shoreman, who has 200,000 miles on his Volkswagen, fantastic man with glasses, very anemic-looking, tiny short guy, wonderful human being, friend of firemen, could use their Xerox facilities anytime he wants, teaches firemen how to play chess, policeman, has a chess course at Haywood University, he writes a full page in The Haywood Daily Review, a chess column, and he drives me around California to do prison exhibitions at DVI, Deuel Vocational Institute, which I played just after drawing with Grandmaster Browne, he arrives, I’m out waiting to get picked up after the exhibition having drawn with Grandmaster Browne, I’m not sure if he’s heard about it, he circles the flagpole ten times without looking at me, just drives, I was standing in the middle by the flagpole, and he doesn’t even look in my eyes. It was the greatest compliment imaginable. Fantastic man.
CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS
October 9, 2013
M. CARLSEN (ELO 2870) — the real deal, the highest rated player of all time and just 22 YEARS OLD, a Norwegian chess millionaire several times over … he goes for it ALL … world title play versus #8 World Chess Champion V. Anand (ELO 2775) India … JUST 30 days away in Chennai, India … it is going to be real war folks – many games could go 100 moves .. endgames are going to be king versus king .. “I just feel we have an obligation to play out the games” — Magnus Carlsen- V. KRAMNIK of Russia (ELO 2796) — age 38
- L. ARONIAN, ARMENIA’S GIANT (ELO 2793)– 31 year old WORLD TEAM CHESS CHAMPION BOARD ONE
- F. CARUANA of Italy (ELO 2791) — Age 21
- H. NAKAMURA OF THE UNITED STATES (ELO 2788) — Age 25
— Jude Acers
Image credit: Luke McKernan
Your Move
Many folks have had lots of nice things to say about the video footage we’ve posted from our documentary-in-process about Jude Acers. A few folks have had some not so nice things to say about Jude Acers (more about them in a moment). I wanted to emphasize a couple of the nicer kind.
The first is from a chess blogger, The Armchair Warrior, who talks up our project and shares a thoughtful account of meeting and playing Jude in the French Quarter:
Please go to ClassActionFilms.com, where you will find a short film that captures the quintessential Jude. I promise it will be the best nine minutes of your day. It was one of the best parts of my yesterday. It shows Jude being, well, Jude!
Be sure to read the rest of his post.
And over on Facebook, a friend, the celebrated novelist Ru Freeman, raved:
I’ve donated to some kickstarter projects before, but this one is THE BEST of them all. The men in my family all play chess. They play it exceptionally well. They’ve managed/played and raised money for/coached our national team. They may be able to drop kick Jude’s bottom but I’m guessing not. I love this project. And I love the New Orleans that comes through too. Besides, Derek Bridges is a former loafer*. Please, if you’ve got a few to spare, do help this documentary along – they are so very close to their goal! (Oh, and I play chess too – and I was a star when I was on a team because people feared that the skill of my father and brothers must surely be embedded in me too. I won from psyching people out with that fiction).
I should clarify that being a “former loafer*” does not mean I’ve changed my sometimes aimless ways, it just means I went to Bread Loaf in 2007 (and that’s how I was fortunate to meet Ru). More importantly, check out this New York Times review of her new novel:
#JudeAcers Meets #ProjectGlass
#ProjectGlass Meets The Man In The Red Beret from CLASSACTIONFILMS on Vimeo.
CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS
OCTOBER 5, 2013
ACERS TO PLAY IN 11 ROUND WORLD NOVEMBER, 2013 FIDE INTERNATIONAL SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP CHESS TOURNEY IN OPATIJA, CROATIA…….
The Other Shoe Drops
Borislav Ivanov had already been banned once for suspicions of cheating when forty Bulgarian players signed a boycott. But he allegedly gave cheating another go. From a fascinating report at ChessBase.com who interviewed the player who seems to have broken Ivanov’s code, Grandmaster Maxim Dlugy:
So we all go into this room: the director, the head of security, my friend, myself and Borislav. They have metal detectors and go over every place very carefully if it beeps, and show that there is nothing there. The security guy says at the start “Look, I’m going to search him, you’re going to watch. If you want something else you tell us, but whatever it is we will do the exact same thing on Borislav’s opponent. I said yes, of course, no problem. This was a very funny moment. The search is completed and my friend goes “Okay, and now take off your shoes.” The security guy looks at me. Without a word I take off my shoes, I take off my socks and throw them to the floor – just ba-doom, there, I’m done, now show me your shoes, please.
Photo credit: ChessBase News
Part II of “There’ll be no need for me to cry” 5
Head on over to ClassActionFilms.com for the first installment of the 25,000-word interview and profile of Jude Acers.
Nefarious Chessplay in SF?
Neal J. Riley @ SFGate:
On Tuesday afternoon, the only sign of street chess was at the feet of Marvin Boykins, 57. Across from his latex chessboard, a friend moved chess pieces at the command of a smartphone computer game set at the grandmaster level, which Boykins refused to listen to after it warned him that he’d made a bad move.
“I’ve been playing since I was 7 or 8 years old,” said Boykins, who has been playing at the spot for decades. “Chess is a true San Francisco tradition.”
His friend, Hector Torres Jr., said chess saved him from a gambling addiction when he moved to San Francisco from Las Vegas more than 20 years ago. He said the chess games are a discrimination-free zone that has welcomed everyone including San Francisco Giants players, millionaires and people who have been in prison for decades.
What joy is in cheating?
From the New York Times:
The tournament’s director, Christian Goldschmidt, said in a note posted online that when he asked to see the cellphone, [Jens] Kotainy pulled it out of his pocket and said it was turned off, as required by the rules. But Goldschmidt said that while he was holding it, the phone started giving off vibrations that resembled Morse code.