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Jude Acers Questions - and Answers!
1) I really enjoy your new book and find the Guiding Repertoire For White portion especially useful. My question is, do you plan on a follow up for black? Thanks, and hope to see you when you make it out to the west coast. - Tim Schmackpfeffer JA: No. Thank you for your letter, and the kind words. 2) If black plays the very best move every time in response to white's, what would be the outcome? - R. Kesavan JA: R. Kesavan asks a critical question which is answered with five million dollars in bank accounts of top computer-human match players G. Kasparov, V. Kramnik. For serious money stake matches, with hundreds of thousands of buckaroos also provided (for preparation) to human players months in advance of a great computer challenge...anywhere, any time a "perfectly played game" by White pieces ALWAYS can be met by the margin of the draw (tie) that is just huge for the Black pieces. Black almost always draws in a walk with second move even against massive computer assault...it is just a question of how long Grandmasters Kramnik/Kasparov wish to "babysit" or "coddle" the computer. If they are quite content to hold quietly as Black (second move) en route to their "coast like a joke" next one-million dollar under the table honorarium-sweetener. A draw will almost always occur...the computer is history. The world-class sportsman / chess millionaire V. Kramnik (who crushed Kasparov in a 16-game match WITHOUT LOSING A SINGLE GAME) was guaranteed big bucks in a Bahrain computer match. Murdering the computer with two wins, Kramnik KNEW he was destroying the golden goose. Unbelievably, he consented to a total overhaul of the computer opening index in mid-match!!! This is, in reality, fraud. The computer Kramnik defeated now existed in name only...even so Mr. Kramnik had to work, huff - puff, overtime to make the cash register...ERR...make that "ever improving computer" tie the match with two late round wins. Still, it was great fun, no? 3) What if any Newspaper Chess Columns do you read on a regular basis? - Jeff Schwartz JA: Go to Mount Everest first! Only one newspaper column is examined 7-days a week, 24 hours a day by the entire chess world...more than 100 nations read it...Lubomir Kavalek's incredible Washington Post chess column. Mr. Kavalek's phenomenal theoretical chess knowledge, learned prose, mini-chess problem of the week...red-hot chess news are unequaled. Best of all it is absolutely free to the whole world on the internet with every single chess lesson - annotated game - commentary carried forever in the free chess column archives. Kavalek is, make no mistake, the greatest chess columnist in the world. The Washington Post would be well advised to contract with him until the day he dies. 4) What do you think are the best books for an aspiring player to study? - Matthew Hass My opinion is well known from more than 1000 chess appearances in 46 states/5 countries that one and only one book is recommended for all players - student or advanced teacher. It is the supreme "how-to-do-it" chess book in world chess history, the awesome, greatest chess book of all time, Logical Chess Move by Move by Irving Chernev. Every single move of all 33 thrilling games has annotation. Yes that is correct. A comment after every single move. Still the one after six decades...the pyramids of the chess world. A magnificent new typeset / new diagram edition by Grandmaster John Nunn of England has 300 plus picture illustrative diagrams to boot! Absolutely knocks beginning chessplayers dead...they go into a chess trance - forget where they are, who they are, where they live. Changes your life. For the Opening: Ideas Behind the Chess Openings by R. Fine, the incredible Super Grandmaster (1914-1993) who bombed World Chess Champion A. Alekhine 2-0 en route to a First place tie at the AVRO 1938 International (Holland), widely regarded the greatest chess tournament of all time. For the Middlegame: Nothing touches the all-time classic two-volume paperback series The Middlegame Vol I & II by Dr. Max Euwe (1901-1981) and H. Kramer. (Entire double book design by Hans "Pawn Power in Chess" Kmoch.) Here we find an awesome feature-bonus: 38 short immortal player sketches in "personal style" that just defies words. It is available worldwide from "the little publisher that could" Mr. Lou Hays, Hays Publishing. An absolute must. You may thank me later, get it now. For the Endgame: Nothing even touches the staggering newly revised paperback edition by endgame maestro Grandmaster Pal Benko...the all-time revised classic just released again...Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine (revised Benko edition). These volumes, your precious gold, will be treasure when I am but a faded memory, the wind, ashes...please always remember who spoke of them...AND a pleasant smile please! I agree with six decades (and counting!!) Chess Life/Review columnist Larry Evans/ On chess...THIS IS IT...the ONE endgame book. indispensable.
5) What is the best chess book for children beginning to play chess? - J. Grenner JA: The best beginning book is a "visualization" book followed immediately by the greatest chess book of all time... The "visualization" book of pictures by the hundreds is the worldwide best seller paperback Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. Yes, that is right. Chess by pictures! Should be read 10 times in two months. THEN...next comes the awesome shocker, the all time classic, the greatest chess book of all time Logical Chess Move By Move by Irving Chernev (a magnificent revised edition, new typeset, with 325 illustrative game diagrams by British Grandmaster John Nunn is now available all over the world.) Thirty-three games, all thrillers, are explained with a simple easy to understand comment AFTER EVERY SINGLE MOVE. Must be seen to be believed. Still the one, after 47 years! Read it four times a year. You won't be sorry! 6) At what age did you learn to play? - E. Poloma JA: Age 12 was critical - I learned (1956) all the chess rules, met the immortal Adrian L. McAuley. - first officially rated chess master in New Orleans history. Mr. McAuley, undefeated throughout 115 chess tourney games, was a person of the highest standard, strictly world class to his shoe laces...he wore old work clothes, drove a ramshackle Pelican Plumbing supply truck...that is how I learned PRONTO that appearances mean nothing - ability, study, organization, a clear mind, courage, correct expression right now, civility, interest in living...respect and courtesy for all people all the time...were his moves. I recalled "The Great McAuley" in La Carretera (The Highway), chapter II, an internet book you can read right now at Chessville. Believe me, McAuley stands alone in Louisiana chess history. Thanks E. Poloma! 7) Do you believe chess is an art/science or both? - T. Merwin Chess is first and foremost a sport, fought ferociously at any level between quite interested parties. Once they are interested it's all out war. Progressively, the huge, highly organized World Chess Federation youth chess tournaments (1,000 plus children in 2003 Greece!!) add to the $1,500,000 monster world knockout 100-nation chess championship (also FIDE) as get-ready-or-die events. Preparation for these events, massively aided by the internet, computers, is science. Chess becomes art with specific "bomb moves", "intermezzo - in between moves", organized plans wonderfully explained by a skilled annotator...via MOVES THAT MOVE the human observer.
Alive. That's the word. 8) I'm 18 years old with a USCF rating of 1800 and have been playing chess for five years. What do you suggest and/or how much should I practice per day/week to become an expert in the next year or two? - W. Ruiz A stellar question indeed! The world famous classic Acers study program is just right for you... prescribed for the aspiring young player: (1) Immediately read twice the greatest chess book of all time, a general how-to primer that defies words: LOGICAL CHESS - MOVE-BY-MOVE by Irving Chernev. The modern paperback computer typeset edition by top British Publisher / Grandmaster John Nunn has 300 plus illustrative "picture" diagrams just for you. No excuses Mr. Ruiz - read it twice right now. After six decades - still the one - immortal chess teaching in simple how-to fashion, 33 master games with a comment after every single move... (2) Annotated Master games are what to study! A chess master must talk to you throughout the notes to a chess game, get a conversation with you going Mr. Ruiz. That keeps the lively interest! And now Mr. Ruiz you encounter treasure - the greatest chess column in the world - Grandmaster L. Kavalek's astounding annotated game / chess news / problem epic - appearing every week in the Washington Post FREE ON THE INTERNET - all columns archived forever!!! Must be seen to be believed... No excuses Mr. Ruiz - read every single column Mr. Kavalek has ever written - it is all there in the Washington Post archives plus chess lore galore! Already more than 100 weekly mini-lessons for you Mr. Ruiz from a world famous chess theoretician, noted chess organizer (Montreal 1979 International). Try to solve and play over all the one-three move chess puzzles Mr. Kavalek presents...just playing over the Washington Post column automatically jumps your world ELo rating two-hundred Elo points in two years Mr. Ruiz! It makes you feel powerful! You are no longer the 90-pound weakie on the beach. (3) Immediately buy a pocket chess set. Believe me you are going to need it. (Always buy two chess sets at one time...so if a chess piece is lost it is immediately replaced. Fischer often carried a pocket set 24-hours a day in his formative period.) (4) Read every single article ever written by Susan Polgar on the chess openings published in Chess Life magazine. I repeat - every one - Mr. Ruiz! No excuses please. (5) Read "Ideas Behind the Chess Openings" by Super-Grandmaster R. Fine (1914-1993)...the New York player who defeated World Champion A. Alekhine 2-0 while equal first with Grandmaster P. Keres at AVRO, 1938 International (Holland)...to this day considered by many to be the greatest chess tournament ever played. (6) Right away get Grandmaster Pal Benko's paperback revision of BASIC CHESS ENDINGS (by R. Fine also!) It will provide joy, instruction for a lifetime. (7) Take care of yourself Mr. Ruiz! Protect your chess machine! Never lecture to other people what lifestyle to lead - people have an absolute right to live and die by their lifestyle choices.
One more tip: walk everywhere. Never get in a car if possible. Walking is the best exercise on the planet - period. It lasts a lifetime. All other exercise is case specific / time specific + puts stress on your system. Walk for miles whenever safely possible. No excuses Mr. Ruiz. Walk everywhere possible like your life depends on it. It does. (8) Have a secret friend Mr. Ruiz! Conduct 1000 ABSOLUTELY FREE practice games with GNU public chess computer! Live a little! (Give yourself just 20 minutes a game, tops.) Yes, that's right. Free!! A $100,000 chess trainer for free for absolutely nothing. No talk, all action - no bells and whistles, just solid chess opposition for you forever. A treasure for a lifetime. The more time you give GNU to think about moves, the stronger the replies. Your call./ A wonder. It will take you to another world. You may thank me later Mr. Ruiz - when you are 105! 9) I entered a tournament in Portugal and a situation happened. My opponent ask for a draw but I didn't answer it immediately, a few moves later my position got weak and I told him that now I would accept his draw, but he refuses telling me that situation was illegal. What I'm asking is if someone offers us a draw, do we have to immediately accepted ??? or is it valid trough out the entire game?? - thanks, Luis Costa JA: Thank you for your letter Mr. Costa. A draw must be accepted before you move. It does not carry over. It is yes or no right now Daddy-O! You decline by moving. Everyone learns rules in this manner, albeit painfully. Do not be discouraged. Keep playing. All will come. Treasure. Enjoy. 10) Quisiera saber si pueden analizar alguna de mis partidas
y mostrarme mis errores. Desaria usted analizar la partida? Gratis! "Chesslab" computadora. Nuevo. Preciso. Gracias. Jude Acers. 11) With the development of chess programs ... is gonna be the end of professional chess on the way we know it or is gonna change someday ? thanks from Peru - Jaime Gallegos-Castillo Out with the old - in with the new chess world! A gigantic chess boom will come. "Distance Chess" equipment will permit millions to play for the US Chess Championship and the world title as well. International team play will be murderous, exciting...a "Certified Chess Referee" (CCR) will stand by International rated computer chess players at all terminals - games will last 50 minutes or less with no rated player ever allowed to leave the board for any reason during play...No more hotel bills, $280 entry fees, airline travel trauma...the entry of Chinese school children to practice play computers like Yahoo.com and MSN. Games will be very appealing to advertisers. More than a billion hits a month!...because games will be school played, one hour time period will be forced for all major chess internet hosts. Chess is going to change totally in the next 10 years. Thanks from New Orleans,
Jude Acers
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However
- face it. To best play lifetime chess at top level no cigarettes, no
narcotics, no liquor if you can possibly manage it. Your call!
Do not get me wrong - I am wild & wooly, love music, a Bohemian, love wild
parties, wild women, new faces, new places. I NEVER lecture
others... but no way were smoking, dope, narcotics be tolerated amidst more
than 1000 Acers chess appearances all over the world. Mr. Ruiz, stay
alive. A person your age is expected to live 105-110 years easily with
terrific quality of life, the internet, digital Library of Congress, modern
medical care, massive delightful advances in college education right over
the internet. Stick around. It will be most interesting.
