{"id":2597,"date":"2015-09-13T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T12:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2015-09-13T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T12:17:55","slug":"remembering-bobby-fischers-1964-simullecture-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Bobby Fischer&#8217;s 1964 Simul\/Lecture Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theneworleansadvocate.com\/news\/13411886-93\/the-fischer-king-recalling-four\">Michael Tisserand in the <em>Advocate<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifty-one years later, Jude Acers can still hear the champion\u2019s footsteps approaching him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was late on a Thursday night \u2014 March 24, 1964 \u2014 at the Young Women\u2019s Christian Association on Gravier Street. The YWCA\u2019s old floor creaked when you walked on it, Acers recalls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As night ticked on to early Friday morning, Acers and 74 other local chess players waited their turn as grandmaster and national champion Robert J. \u201cBobby\u201d Fischer methodically \u2014 and a little noisily \u2014 made his way toward their boards. He was playing all of them simultaneously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Michael Tisserand in the Advocate: Fifty-one years later, Jude Acers can still hear the champion\u2019s footsteps approaching him. &nbsp; It was late on a Thursday night \u2014 March 24, 1964 \u2014 at the Young Women\u2019s Christian Association on Gravier Street. The YWCA\u2019s old floor creaked when you walked on it, Acers recalls. &nbsp; As night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,3,91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chess-history","8":"category-jude","9":"category-new-orleans-2","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/fischer-tal.jpg?fit=576%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KM1s-FT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}