{"id":3925,"date":"2019-02-25T12:27:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2019-02-25T14:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:36:16","slug":"chessflash-world-news-feb-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=3925","title":{"rendered":"ChessFlash World News\/Feb 23, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

This just in \u2026 GREAT AMERICAN CHESS LEGEND\/problemist\/chess author\/San Francisco advertising executive chess master R. E. Burger dies at age 88 … defeated Fischer in 11 moves \/ April 13, 1964<\/h2>\n
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Photo credit: Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club Newsletter<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mr. Burger was in the\u00a0 chess backstreets always with the epic 25 year running CALIFORNIA CHESS REPORTER MAGAZINE \u00a0\u00a0(Guthrie McClain, editor … Jude Acers —\u00a0 rocking and rolling chess commentator 1968-1975) and yes … this was same fantastic legendary encouraging chess shadow that invented little stay alive Belli office building \u00a0jobs for that weird Louisiana po boy Jude Acers, the ChessLab monster road machine … only months before Acers exploded via a tie match with Grandmaster 6-time US champion Walter Browne \/\u00a0 a\u00a0 world top ten theory game in\u00a0 the prestigious \u201cInformator \u201c\/ 40 million copies of Guinness Book of World Records more than one thousand chess appearances all over the world \u2026\u201dT<\/strong><\/em><\/span>he life changing calls all came into Mr.\u00a0 Burger\u2019s office ..he was ground zero<\/u><\/i><\/b>, dripped class, elegance, staggering kindness\u201d- \u00a0Acers<\/u><\/i><\/b> \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Mr. Burger will forever be remembered for hot footing it over to a Berkeley, California courthouse \u2026 self made wine spirits — glass in hand\u00a0 … to grimly bail out of jail overnight a virtual stranger \u2026 World Junior chess champion\/international chess master Julio Kaplan of Puerto Rico \u2026\u00a0 horrendously arrested \u00a0by mistake in a crowd of student demonstrators.\u00a0 NOTE FOR CHESSLAB READERS … THE CORRECT GAME SCORE OF MR. BURGER\u2019s \u00a0IMMORTAL 50 BOARD SIMULTANEOUS\u00a0 EXHIBITION 11 MOVE WIN VERSUS R. J. FISCHER MAY BE FOUND IN\u00a0 \u201cL<\/span>EGEND ON THE ROAD\u201d BY JOHN DONALDSON \u2026 the\u00a0 widely published version, A THEORY VARIATION \u2026 is not correct … Fischer captured the <\/span>f7<\/strong> pawn\u00a0 and his queen was magnificently trapped and mate prevented by the theory maestro with \u2026 <\/span>Nd5-f6<\/strong> … Fischer\u2019s queen is magnificently trapped via the coming \u2026 <\/span>Bb7-d5<\/strong>.\u00a0 Fischer saw this instantly \u00a0of course.\u00a0 One final blazing eye witness memory from titanic Mechanics Institute Chess club veteran\/inventor Kurt Bendit \u2026 \u201cJude I was right there when Fischer pushed over his king. Mr. Burger instantly stretched his hand over his shoulder to collect on the spot a twenty dollar bill wager on the game!\u201d \u2026 \u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0 things like this you remember best\u201d — Fischer. ###########################<\/span><\/p>\n

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— Jude Acers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This just in \u2026 GREAT AMERICAN CHESS LEGEND\/problemist\/chess author\/San Francisco advertising executive chess master R. E. Burger dies at age 88 … defeated Fischer in 11 moves \/ April 13, 1964 Mr. Burger was in the\u00a0 chess backstreets always with the epic 25 year running CALIFORNIA CHESS REPORTER MAGAZINE \u00a0\u00a0(Guthrie McClain, editor … Jude Acers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3932,"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":[32,14],"tags":[120,21,10,287,286],"class_list":{"0":"post-3925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chess-history","8":"category-chess-news","9":"tag-bobby-fischer","10":"tag-chess","11":"tag-jude-acers","12":"tag-obituary","13":"tag-robert-burger","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/812_Burger.jpg?fit=591%2C724&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KM1s-11j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","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=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}