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Dec-17-16
 | | HeMateMe: I remember reading Chess Life in the '80s and Acers always had an advert in the back, every month, that stated "Jude acers takes on all comers at café _____ daily." |
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Dec-18-16
 | | offramp: Any estimates as to how much he could make in a day? Theroretically, with 5 or 6 blitz games an hour, he could make about $400 in a day, but did he ever come close to that? |
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Dec-18-16
 | | HeMateMe: was he playing for money? |
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Dec-18-16
 | | offramp: <HeMateMe: was he playing for money?> I think so... I was going by the photo on his wikipedia page. He is sitting beside a professionally printed metal sign reading
<"U.S. Chess Master
Jude Acers
World Chess Table
$5.00 Lesson Games
Private!">
There is another photo with another, slightly different sign. |
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Dec-18-16
 | | HeMateMe: Oh, ok. Is he also getting supplemental income as a spokesperson for DEVO? <http://media.nbcsandiego.com/images...> |
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Mar-30-17 | | nolachess: Hey y'all! We are in the process of making a documentary about Jude Acers. We, too, are trying get to the bottom of why the USCF froze his ratings. We are also trying to find people who knew Jude in the 1970s during "The Road" days. Even in you DONT know him PLEASE email me at kdhanrah@gmail.com if you have any stories or thoughts on Jude. Also, If any of you know someone who may be interested in speaking with us, please let them know about our project. If you search for "The Man in the Red Beret" on google you will see videos of our progress. We also run Jude's instagram account "themanintheredberet" Thank you! Here are a few links to some footage from the FIDE tournament in Croatia in 2013... (1) https://vimeo.com/115302954 ;
(2) https://vimeo.com/115316954 ;
(3) https://vimeo.com/115460623 |
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Jun-19-17
 | | redlance: nolachess,sorry did not see your post till now. I had the pleasure to have Jude come and do two simuls with my chess team and at a Children's Home.
He and I also took on the school chess
team playing a blindfold match where Jude and I sat in another room without sight of the board making alternating moves against the team.
This was in Desoto County MS south of Memphis TN. His visit made the Memphis paper.We won the blindfold game but it was because of him!!! I am a NM but this is not my strong point.He played 50 kids ,won 49.2010 |
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Jan-25-18
 | | Joshka: <nolachess> Did the movie about Jude ever get completed?? |
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Feb-15-18 | | Caissanist: I am reposting the following from judeacers.com in case someone here knows something (or somebody): <As you probably know, we have been making a documentary about Jude Acers these past 5 years or so. One item we have had some difficulty nailing down is archival news footage featuring Jude. We do have some excellent footage of Jude in the 1960s playing chess at the Wagner family home in Baton Rouge (thanks to Larry Wagner), and we have also located Associated Press footage from 1972 (see still above). In the early 1980s Jude appeared nationally on PM Magazine, and we would love to get our hands on that footage (do you have an in with Eric Paulsen at WWL? He did the PM Mag piece). Anybody with a lead on this kind of archival footage, please leave a comment below and I’ll follow up with you.> I remember the PM Magazine piece, it was quite entertaining, hopefully somebody somewhere has an old tape lying around. |
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Feb-15-18
 | | Joshka: Well it's been 5 years the man is not getting any younger. It's amazing like you said, that not much footage is around showing him play, he's been playing outside there for years!!! He's held numerous exhibitions!!....see, this is the problem with chess......no matter how much you are in the public view, you are still a NOBODY!! What a shame. |
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Feb-16-18 | | morfishine: Based on his bio, seems like he should have more games on file |
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Feb-16-18
 | | Joshka: <morfishine> He had a run in with the USCF I believe way back in the 70's.......think he's persona non grata, but I'd sure like to hear HIS side of the story in a movie/bio......i do not believe he plead guilty....so his story is just very interesting for folks like me who really love the personalities of these chess greats!! I mean 1.New Orleans 2. Chess bad boy 3. Broke away from the USCF 4. Knew Fischer 5. Chess hustler ( a movie just on that element!!LOL) 6. Makes his living playing folks on a public street. All the elements a creative writer could put together a screenplay. Now add a little sex/Commie involvement/ and there ya go!:-) PS maybe a Morphy twist from years ago? |
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Feb-16-18 | | morfishine: Thanks <Joshka> nice post! |
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Feb-16-18 | | morfishine: And to think, that miserable miscreant, Claude Bloodgood Claude Frizzel Bloodgood actually has more games in the database than Acers Thats criminal, no pun intended
***** |
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Feb-27-18
 | | Joshka: Great video with Jude!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpj... |
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Apr-11-19
 | | perfidious: <morf>, one might say that, yes. |
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Nov-15-19 | | Caissanist: I don't think relations between Jude and the USCF were <that> bad. He was suspended for a while in the mid seventies becase the federation thought some of his results were fake, but he was later readmitted. He didn't play in many tournaments after that, but I recall that Larry Evans printed one or two of his games in his column in the eighties, which presumably wouldn't have happened if he really was <persona non grata>. |
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Aug-13-20 | | BananaStrings: In 2009 I went on a road trip from CA and made it a point to go see 'The Man in the Red Beret.' I spent $15 for 2 losses and a draw (his sign read "$5 a lesson") against Mr. Acers on Decatur Street in the French Quarter. He had a table set up on the sidewalk, sort of near a cafe, but he said that the cafe sort of asked him to leave to make space for customers as he was drawing too many players who were cheapskates and not buying anything. The whole time we were playing he kept talking about the chess history of New Orleans, and which chess books he thought I should read. Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual was the only one I recall him mentioning. After the games he took me on a tour where Morphy lived, played, and died throughout the French Quarter. I don't know if he's still hanging out down there, but I doubt he still is. When we played he had some obvious health issues. He nonetheless was full of energy and treated me as an equal--two lovers of the game enjoying chess and its history. |
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Apr-06-21 | | login:
Link including a reprint of the article (pp. 31-34) mentioned by User: RolandTesh J Acers vs G Hulburd, 1968 (kibitz #20)
'My Dinner with Jude Acers'
https://texaschess.org/wordpress/wp... by Casey Bush, Northwest Chess
Roland (Rollie) Leslie Tesh Jr. (1958-2019)
https://www.forevermissed.com/rolli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_... For a good (non-profit organization striving to educate, engage, and create community through board games) cause
http://spielbound.org/donate
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Jun-10-21 | | login:
https://b2l2.com/documenting/
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/maga... |
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Oct-08-23 | | Caissanist: He is in fact still hanging out the same place near the Gazebo restaurant as he has been for 42 years, still taking on all comers for $5 a game. Here's a recent story in nola.com: https://www.nola.com/entertainment_... . |
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Nov-26-23 | | Caissanist: The above-mentioned documentary, after ten years in the making, has now been completed and is currently screening in a theater in New Orleans: https://www.nola.com/gambit/events/... There is also, for any Acers completists out there, a 25,000 word profile of him, written by the same guy who put together the documentary: https://b2l2.com/therell-be-no-need... |
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Nov-27-23
 | | Joshka: <caissanist> Wonderful news that's it's finally come to fruition!!! Think it will be streaming on youtube? soon!?? |
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Jul-27-24 | | messin616: I played a game against Jude yesterday at his regular spot in New Orleans. I played one game for 1.5 hours and we talked a lot about life. Acers won. He told me to come by at the end of his night. I did, and he walked my girlfriend and I down the street (he didn't use the sidewalk, lol) to the local chess tournament in a cafe. He gave us food recommendations and made us laugh a lot. Introduced us to the local chess club and his manager, and then he disappeared. It was certainly a highlight of my trip! |
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Apr-25-25
 | | HeMateMe: <Joshka: <nolachess> Did the movie about Jude ever get completed??
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I heard that Russel Crowe and Kelsey Grammer dropped out when the money became 'questionable.' Tom Hanks will work for "no money" if it's a great project. Status--limbo. Mark Mothersbaugh is still interested
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