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Via Slate<\/a>:<\/p>\n Nineteen days after the match, the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Sun-Sentinel wrote that \u201ceveryone who isn\u2019t running out these days to pick up a chess set and become the next Bobby Fischer is grabbing a racket and balls to emulate Billie Jean King and Rod Laver.\u201d The next month, Florida Today said, \u201csome observers feel\u201d that 29-year-old Jude Acers \u201ccould be the next Bobby Fischer.\u201d He was not, but Acers did become chess-famous\u00a0for wearing a red beret\u00a0<\/a>and playing passers-by for money in a gazebo in New Orleans. He also set a world record by taking on 179 opponents at once.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Via Slate: Nineteen days after the match, the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Sun-Sentinel wrote that \u201ceveryone who isn\u2019t running out these days to pick up a chess set and become the next Bobby Fischer is grabbing a racket and balls to emulate Billie Jean King and Rod Laver.\u201d The next month, Florida Today said, \u201csome observers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3785,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chess-history","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-18-at-7.12.21-PM-1.jpg?fit=900%2C829&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KM1s-Z1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","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=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}