For the full article by Will Coviello, go here. P.S. A couple factual errors in the article: Acers graduated high school in Mandeville, not Kenner. And he was 6-years-old, not 4, when he mother perished in an airplane crash.
Originally published in 2013.
Follow this link to Chess.com article. (Note that the game was played in Berkeley, CA, not New Orleans, LA). Or just jump straight to the game viewer.
Source: Daily Reveille (LSU student newspaper)
Have you heard Jude Acers talk about Adrian L. McAuley, the first rated chess master in New Orleans history? Here is your chance … Check out Sarrah Danziger‘s “Listen to New Orleans” interview with Acers.
The Great Jude Acers by Kane Webb/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette September 2, 2007 LITTLE ROCK — NEW ORLEANS “Still five dollars a game?” I ask the man in the red beret, his nose buried in the New York Times. “Have a seat!” says Jude Acers, stuffing the Times under his folding table […]
