Chess expert offers tips on life, game at Pleasant Hill Elementary
By Lesley Young
Posted January 18, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
Chess master Jude Acers had some advice for a cafeteria full of young chess enthusiasts Sunday:
“Play in the center of the board.”
“Get your pieces out when in doubt.”
“Never let your pieces be driven to the side of the board without good reason.”
Perhaps unexpected was the life advice he delivered along with the chess tips.
“When you wake up in the morning, say ‘it’s a good day’ and it will be because you said it would be,” Acers, a New Orleans resident, said.
“Tell yourself, ‘I can do it,’ and you will, because you told yourself you could.”
Known as the man in the red beret, Acers has played the likes of Bobby Fischer, published books on the game and set two records in the Guinness Book of World Records.
He can be found sitting at his board daily on Decatur Street in the French Quarter charging $5 to take him on — that is, when he’s not on tour around the country delivering lectures and demonstrations to supple young minds like the group he found at Pleasant Hill Elementary School in Olive Branch this weekend.
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I thought he disappeared during Katrina?