CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS

September 15, 2013

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Chess Club & Scholastic Center of St. Louis — World #1 Magnus Carlsen Wins $70,000 first prize … with $220,000 cash at stake and 4 top chess grandmasters playing each other twice, it was the highest rated chess grandmaster of all time with ferocious chess endgame play…… M. CARLSEN, WHO TOOK HOME $70,000 first prize today via 3 wins, three draws, 4.5 POINTS .. . and sending the Norwegian chess monster player on a cloud to Chennai, India for his $5 million world title play versus world chess champion V. Anand of India this November. US chess great Hikaru NAKAMURA WAS CLEAR SECOND in St. Louis at 3.5 with Levon ARONIAN (AREMINIA) THIRD, Gata KAMSKY, US, LAST.

— Jude Acers

Jude Meets #ProjectGlass

I quickly diced up a video clip I shot Thursday evening of George “Loki” Williams of HumidCity.com introducing Jude to Google Glass. It’s rough, no post-production, and I’ve only included footage from one of our two cameras. I just want to give folks a sense of what to expect when […]

Morphy House Evolution 2

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The Brennan’s nameplate has been removed and a “new concept” restaurant is planned for the storied building. From Nola.Eater:

Yesterday afternoon the goldleaf Brennan’s name was spotted being scraped off the side of the The Big Pink, which is a fair indication that Brennan’s years of extreme family dysfunction are finally coming to an end, or the restaurant is shuttered for good anyways. Now Ralph Brennan— the new-owner/cousin of former owners Pip and Ted Brennan— has released a statement to The Times-Picstating that yes, in fact a “new restaurant concept is being finalized.” However, Brennan states “there is no set timeline for making a public announcement regarding those plans,” which basically translates to I’ll never tell fun time for all.

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September 10, 2013

ACERS HITS TV BIG TIME! EmojiEmojiEmojiEmojiEmoji   

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — The Chesslab Monster Road Machine, Jude Acers, on a fantastic promo roll (when it rains, it pours), hits ABC affiliate WGNO Channel 26 in New Orleans at 6 p.m. Thursday, September 12–to be twice repeated Saturday, Sept 14. A two hour monster filming session by WGNO feature journalist Tyler Wing wrapped today … The event to be videostreamed around the world … will be featured on WGNO’s website around the clock … just in time too as Acers is madly promoting his epic and absolutely free of charge 10 board simultaneous New Orleans children’s chess exhibition “Little Chess Monsters” 1 p,.m. Saturday, September 28 at the St. Claude Avenue Healing Center in New Orleans.

— Jude Acers

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September 9, 2013

NEW ORLEANS , LOUISIANA — It’s on BIG TIME! Absolutely FREE to all players and spectators. All media welcome. New Orleans professional chess master Jude Acers’ “Little Chess Monsters” 100 opponent free young people’s simultaneous chess exhibition: 1 p.m., Saturday, September 28, 2013 at the St. Claude Healing Center in New Orleans. The “Little Chess Monsters” world exhibition featuring the Chess Lab Monster Road Machine Acers (wearing Google Glass) playing 100 children while broadcasting live videostream around the world as he is being filmed for a huge New Orleans film documentary as well … Oh, Mama … This is the life!

Again, absolutely free and all are welcome. An opportunity to see (and play for free!) the World Famous New Orleans chess master (Drawn match in 1970 with Gradmaster Walter Browne; Guiness World Record for simultaneous exhibition–179 boards, Mid-Isle Plaza, now Broadway Plaza, Long Island, New York, NY, July 2-3, 1976) … The two-time World Guiness Book of Records simul player does it one mo time!

Chasslab readers worldwide: This is it! If you have a “Little Chess Monster” who wants to play free … 100 boards available right now.  Charter a plane … fly the “Little Chess Monster” in! Enter him/her today with Mr. Jeffrey Vollmer, Chief Exhibition organizer-umpire, whose decisions are absolutely final. Email for registration and all details: jeffrey.vollmer[at]att.net.

And GOOD LUCK to all! You are going to need it.

Exhibition credits: Celebrity limo Service C. Charles “THE FIRST CITIZEN” Broome.

— Jude Acers

 

Editor’s Note: Details are still getting worked out regarding Jude’s use of the Google Glass. Due to technical limitations, it may will not be possible to livestream the simul, though we will try. Further details will be announced here closer to the event. We’re using the Google Glass as part of a collaboration between B2L2 and #ProjectGlass with George “Loki” Williams at Humid City.

Update: We would like to emphasize a comment George “Loki” Williams has added:

Jude’s enthusiasm is a wonderful thing, but he is a bit mistaken about the technology. At present Glass cannot live broadcast since it is not yet capable of using Hangouts On Air. What we will do is record parts of the event from his unique perspective which will them be shared on YouTube and in the documentary that B2L2 is working on.

I cannot wait to collaborate with him on this event as it was Jude who taught me my first Chess moves in a NOLA coffeeshop back in the late 70s / early 80s.

Meet You in St. Louis

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The Sinquefield Cup begins tomorrow (via the USCF):

The 2013 Sinquefield Cup is a chess event of epic proportions. The world will be watching Saint Louis as four of the best players on the planet, including the top two in the world: GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Levon Aronian, and the top two in the U.S.: GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Gata Kamsky, vie for the $70,000 top prize and the inaugural Sinquefield Cup trophy. Only one will be King.

From the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis website:

Live coverage of each round of the event will be hosted through our partner site,www.uschesschamps.com, but this event will offer an unparalleled spectator experience, featuring multiple live Grandmaster commentary teams, access to the playing hall and more!

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September 2, 2013

Kramnick knocking on the door of the World Chess Cup and $90,000 take home pay … TROMSO, NORWAY …

FIDE Online Arena (Test Version) Launches 1

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Via the Mechanics’ Institute newsletter, which notes that the following announcement, signed by the FIDE president, has been published at FIDE.com:

I am proud to announce today’s launch of the limited test version of FIDE online arena, FIDE’s official Internet playing platform developed in cooperation
with CNC. In October 2013, after the Executive Board meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, the fully operational version of FIDE online arena will be in service and available all over the world. FIDE firmly believes that online chess offers enormous opportunities for millions of chess lovers who are unable to regularly participate in over-the board events for a variety of reasons: professional and family commitments, problems reaching tournaments and other difficulties, etc.

Now FIDE makes the virtual real with an online arena that allows players to compete in top class tournaments with official FIDE ratings. The attractiveness
and ease of online chess will also draw millions of new players – in particular the young. FIDE online arena will be an important step in achieving my goal
of ‘1 billion chess players’ throughout the world.

Computer Chess, the Movie

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Andrew O’Hehir @ Salon reviews the new movie Computer Chess:

It’s easy to describe the superficial allure, or maybe anti-allure, of Andrew Bujalski’s film“Computer Chess”: It’s mostly set at a suburban chain motel in the early 1980s, and was shot in black-and-white using a video camera from that period. (“Black-and-white” is a term of art in this case, since the deliberately unlovely, squarish on-screen image is all different shades of dishwater gray.) This turned out to be a difficult undertaking. Since you can’t reliably find tapes or a working tape deck from that era, the video was recorded to a hard drive. If you really want to be a purist about it, this movie is faux-low-tech rather than the real thing.

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Package Feared to be Bomb, Only a Chess Set

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The Advocate:

A suspicious package left on the front steps of a Mandeville residence Saturday morning triggered the evacuation of two dozen homes, the closure of several streets and the mobilization of dozens of law enforcement officials.

But about six hours later, authorities discovered that the brown briefcase contained a chess set, not the pipe bomb that they had feared.

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Brennan’s Restaurant on Royal Street, aka The Morphy House, has been evicted by the building’s new owners. Perhaps a wealthy chess fan will see fit to buy it and make it a chess club …

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CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/JUNE 25,2013

WORLD JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPION IPATOV TAKES WORLD’S TALLEST BUNGEE JUMP OFF MACAU TOWER! HONG KONG … A. IPATOV, world junior chess champion, takes a long ride down in the world’s longest bungee jump: To read more about why he did it, check out Ipatov’s blog: What was the reason to […]

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/JUNE 23, 2013

June 23, 2013 GELFAND OF ISRAEL SHOCKS TAL MEMORIAL WITH FANTASTIC PLAY..WORLD #1 CARLSEN OF NORWAY IS SECOND … Moscow, Russia … an electrifying 10 super grandmaster tourney triumph for B.GELFAND /ISRAEL WITH 6POINTS FROM 9 POSSIBLE … World number one Carlsen/ 5.5 second … stopped cold  with a final round draw today by […]

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JUNE 17,2012 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI…   world  number one…CARlSEN COMING to the US…SINQUEFIELD CHESS CUP( date moved to Sept.9-15,2013) $220,000 AWARDED  TO 4 CHESS GRANDMASTERS!.THIS JUST IN FROMCHESSDOM.COM ONE HOUR AGO..A FULL  PAGE WORLD WIDE ADVERTISEMENT  AND STARTING DATE IS NOW CANCELED AND WORLD NUMBER ONE CHESS GRANDMASTER MAGNUS CARLSEN  WILL   DEFINITELY PLAY IN THE 4 PLAYER […]

CHESSFLASH WORLD NEWS/MAY 25,2013 1

$220,000 SINQUEFIELD CUP

THE GREATEST AMERCAN CHESS TOURNAMENT OF ALL TIME IS ANNOUNCED IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI … $220,000 GUARANTEED JULY 22-AUGUST 2,2013 … THE SINQUEFIELD CUP. No further details given but every available top player in the entire nation will be entered.