here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nFrom Jude Acers<\/strong>: Chess competition versus Mr. Alfred Carlin and myself was savage \u2026 with no quarter asked or given. I played 15 chess matches in Louisiana 1962-2000 with local master rated players..Mr. Carlin was the only one who got to round 5 still alive with chances to at least draw\u2026and serious health personal problems kept him from going much further.His win versus Grandmaster Christiansen deeply moved\/thrilled the chess community here..You neglected to mention that hundreds of people died within blocks of Carlin \/ it was that close ..he heard the initial screams in the distance \u2026Also it should be noted that he and the late Bernard Parun (not to be confused with a legendary player Bernard Parham) were the most active Louisiana chess players of all time ..the chess shadows.. played everywhere and everyone in Louisiana and it is no exaggeration to say Alfred Carlin played hundreds of thousands of clocked speed games .bar.\u2019club offhand games versus seamen\/tourists\/ locals in his own off the highway chess club. I phoned his home only once.. His mother instantly answered \u201cHi Jude..I just put him on a bus to another chess tournament\u201d . Always. Chess was good for him. Strangely I think of him every single time I hear a multimillion selling road monster hit that followed me around in vagabond summer 1968 with William Bills\/Browne\/Burkett\/Frizinger the poet . and John Hall\u2026\u201dAngel of the Morning\u201d by Merrillee Rush and the Turnabouts. it fits him\u2026I had all the breaks \/fantastic fabulous fortune in playing a two game match with Fischer and two matches with Grandmaster Walter Browne \/ The Fischer boom \/fabulous health\/ incredible management \/1000 mall. prison,.media and school appearances in 46 states\/ 20 nations\u2026 with promo genius Russell Miller of Yakima Washington who totally booked all this plus monster Guinness book of world exhibitions for me twice..I was simply at the right place at the right time in world chess history. Fortune\u2026 he had none really. He affected everyone who knew him. Jack London was right \u201d be a burning comet\u2026 \u201cI INTEND TO USE MY TIME, \u201d Carlin certainly did. and\u2026Yes I played with Herman Broussard\u2019s clock which winged through tragedy to the staggering Carlin-Christiansen encounter. I still remember Broussard on the second floor of New Orleans public library \u201d HI Jude..I am studying for tournament in Lafayette this weekend\u201d He died one hundred yards away in a hospital awaiting a defective heart operation.. yes it is true .deeding that humdinger clock to Carlin \u2026the story hitting the daily newspaper\/ his friends like a bomb. Jude Acers\/ New Orleans PS please allow me to mention another name in Mr. Alfred Carln Louisiana orbit all through the years\u2026 world fide rated elo 2350 world rapid rating lists\u2026 retired contractor Mr. Charles Galloway of Baton Rouge who died just weeks before Mr. Carlin ..returning home after living in Russia. winning a small Russian city club championship \u2026\u2026. gallivanting all over the place \u2026. like the wind. Like Carlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From The Chess Drum (April 3): On April 2nd,\u00a0Selby Anderson\u00a0of San Antonio, Texas informed the chess community that\u00a0Alfred \u201cBig Al\u201d Carlin\u00a0passed away at Presbyterian Hospital on April 1st (Easter Sunday). He had been suffering from the effects of congestive heart failure.\u00a0Herminio Baez\u00a0stated that the five-time Louisiana state champion had worked for him as a coach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KM1s-Y5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","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=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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