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Revision as of 18:53, 3 January 2010
Jude Acers | |
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| Full name | Jude Frazer Acers |
| Country |  United States |
| Title | Chess master |
| FIDE rating | 2226 (September 2009) |
| Peak rating | 2399 |
Jude Frazer Acers (born April 6, 1944 Long Beach, California) is a chess player best known for playing against all comers in the New Orleans Gazebo while wearing a red beret. A longtime resident of Louisiana, he claims to have been the first New Orleans native chess master of comparable strength since Paul Morphy.[citation needed]
In addition to being a player, he has written or contributed to several chess books. In 2008 he is working on The Road which will be a book about his chess tours. He is also known for being a great showman, touring the country giving simultaneous chess exhibitions. He was twice the world record holder of having played the most opponents in a simultaneous exhibition. First against 117 opponents (1973, Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon), then against 179 opponents (1976, Mid Island Plaza, Long Island, New York). The records were certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Questions have arisen concerning his actual strength at chess. He got his U.S. Chess Federation rating up to 2399, just one point below Senior Master, by playing matches against players who had never played rated chess before. This led the USCF Executive Director Ed Edmondson to freeze his rating at 2399 until he played in an open tournament.[citation needed]
In 1995, a new rating statistician, apparently unfamiliar with the "Jude Acers Rule", added one point to his rating, giving him a rating of exactly 2400. [citation needed]
Ever since, for the last nearly 40 years, Acers has not played in a rated open tournament until the World Senior Championship held in September 2007 in Gmunden, Austria. Acers defeated veteran master Bill Hook of the British Virgin Islands in the first round. Acers' recent result at the 17th World Senior Chess Championship, with a FIDE performance of 2289, should help to confirm his playing strength.
Acers barely survived Hurricane Katrina and lived in a displaced persons camp for some time. He annotated many American Master-level games, along with Louis Ciamarra, for the Yugoslav-published series Chess Informant.
In 2009 Acers ran into some problems with law. On April 20, Jude Acers was arrested by the New Orleans Police Department for masturbating in public near Isidore Newman School in New Orleans. Upon entering his home police found an encrypted hard drive with over 500 gigabytes of child pornography. Acers was indicted by a Federal Judge and spending in a maximum security prison where he awaits his trial.
Books
My Little Pony: Storybook Collection ISBN: 0060744472
External links
- Jude Acers rating card at FIDE
- Jude Acers player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Jude Acers results at the World Senior Championship
- Jude Acers USCF rating
- American chess icon hit by Katrina from Chessbase.com