Senior Master Jude Acers, the first New Orleans native chess master of comparable strength since Paul Morphy.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Visiting the legendary Senior Master Jude Acers of New Orleans
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Jude is great.
I hope we get to meet one day.
Mike Magnan
Anyone interested in learning more about Jude Acers might enjoy this documentary about him in the works: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/304635435/the-man-in-the-red-beret
My name is Darlene, and my cousin is Becca. We met Jude in 2008, when we went to trace our uncles steps in New Orleans, of 40 years. He was very good friends with Jude. Our Uncle,s name was Smitty. (Marchall Smith.)Jude would give him the cross word puzzle every day. Smitty would work it and put it, folded up in between the post and rain spout where Jude is set up playing chess every day. So Becca and I visited Jude 2 times that visit. He is delightful, and full of sweetness for his friends.