AThe only “authoritative” publication that would back Jude Acers claim on the Exhibition which Acers couldn't even get straight on the date (see below) made serious errors on the Hartford, Connecticut Exhibition as well.
Some nobody just up and *poof* makes up a random win/loss/draw record... and claims he sponsored Fischer, when it was Joseph Platz of E. Hartford and Lawrence Noderer of Windsor (both of the Hartford Chess Club!) who sponsored Bobby. But John Donaldson merrily takes the "Some random guy's" word for it. I knew something was off and here it is. The Chess Columnists back in Fischer's day kept rigorous records on what was happening in the local chess scene. It's a shame, and to John Donaldson's discredit that he stuffs his books on Fischer full of junk idle gossip and fake rumors like this guy! Yes, the guy who faked the claim that Bobby Fischer "spent the night at my house" to back up his pack of slander.
Some nobody just up and *poof* makes up a random win/loss/draw record... and claims he sponsored Fischer, when it was...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut Thursday, March 05, 1964
“3 State Players Defeat Fischer, U.S. Chess Champ”
https://bobby-fischer-1964.blogspot.com/2018/09/3-state-players-defeat-fischer-us-chess.html
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28458412/3_state_players_defeat_fischer_us/
Bobby Fischer reportedly visits New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana in March 1964. Fischer visited in the home of Don...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Friday, October 11, 2019
Bobby Fischer reportedly visits New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana in March 1964. Fischer visited in the home of Don and Phyllis Wagner, then went on to New Orleans to play a simultaneous exhibition match against 75 players on the evening of Thursday, March 24, 1964, YWCA on Gravier Street.
Fischer Visit Recalled - “Don Wagner, former president of the Baton Rouge Chess Association, had American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer as a house guest in 1964 when Fischer played an exhibition match in Baton Rouge. Fisher, coat and tie, is shown playing chess with Wagner during that stay as Wagner's son, Larry, looked on.”
There has to be something wrong with the dates “reportedly” given above (and I could find no mention of an exhibition in New Orleans on that date in newspapers) because March 24, 1964…
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Tuesday, March 24, 1964
(Tribune Staff Photo) Bobby Fischer, ex-U.S. chess champion, playing 54 matches simultaneously against Chicagoans last night.
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Tuesday, March 24, 1964 - Page 37
(Tribune Staff Photo) Bobby Fischer, ex-U.S. chess champion, playing 54 matches simultaneously against Chicagoans last night.
Sailor Only Player to Beat Master
A sailor from Great Lakes Naval Training station using a new technique—the conference method—was the only one of 54 chess players to defeat Bobby Fischer, former national champion, last night in the final of the young grand master's two-day chess marathon in the Edgewater Beach hotel.
Fischer, 21, lost to Gary Thornell, described by a member of the Chicago Chess Foundation as an average player, during a five-hour session last night after he had won 56 games, drawn 11 and lost four matches Sunday in a 9½-hour session.
Three grand masters stood behind Thornell and when Fischer turned away, they coached the sailor.
At the conclusion of the evening's play Fischer, who drew four games besides losing to Thornell, said the Chicago players were the best he has faced during his nationwide tour.
NOLA since removed the page, but here's wayback machine... my “source” which was eager of course, to blacken Bobby Fischer's name and reputation by projecting their own malicious negativity.
Jude Acers was too busy promoting himself and his false recollection about Bobby Fischer and that politically-motivated smear campaign... he didn't even bother to check his dates before telling his fairy tale to the New Orleans Advocate. They've since removed the story from their web site, which appears to be a newspaper of some sort.
Here's what I meant, (The Roselle Register, Roselle, Illinois, Monday, July 24, 1972) about Jude Acers so busy promoting...
Posted by Bobby Fischer's True History on Monday, October 14, 2019
Here's what I mean, (The Roselle Register, Roselle, Illinois, Monday, July 24, 1972) about Jude Acers so busy promoting himself (as if, a better chess player than Bobby Fischer), eager to promote the “Bobby Fischer is insane,” “Bobby unravels into erratic behavior” “Bobby can't cope” “Bobby cant” “Bobby cant” “Bobby cant” all part of the gaslighting abuse campaign of slander waged against Bobby Fischer by an unwelcoming, envious chess establishment… in one article refused to credit the “Fischer boom” to Bobby Fischer as if chess were becoming a world sensation in 1972, “just because” and irregardless of Fischer and the popularity would outlive Fischer, and in another, Evans was revealing the real Jude Acers … making himself out to be a regular chess Casanova and trying to womanize. Based on both Acers power of future prediction (attaching article) as well as a miserable ability to recollect the past - I'm convinced Jude Acers doesn't really know Bobby, but a mere “acquaintance”.
NOLA put the page back online!
Need a pro chess player / mathematician so that the final hole can be punched straight thru the hot gas of egotist Jude Acers. Chicago Tribune reports Fischer is PLAYING, the NIGHT OF March 23, 1964. Everyone agrees?? When did Fischer get out of that exhibition hall? Midnight? The morning of March 24, 1964? -- About right. What does Fischer do then? My guess -- heads to his apartment, guest room, or whatnot and proceeds with rest, and getting his stuff packed... that puts him leaving may be the next afternoon, maybe the next day if he had business to attend to. No rest before moving on? Google Maps says that's a 900+ mile trip, assuming the same highways existed back in 1964... evening of March 23, he was finishing up his "two day" chess marathon. If it were me after a "two day marathon" i'd want to rest, retire to bed, not jump in a car and drive 900+ miles, and according to Jude Acers tall tale, in his skewed mind, "Tuesday, March 24, 1964" is a "Thursday" -- check your calendars! If he got a detail like that wrong, what else should be trusted? My guess is, Fischer was NOT where Jude Acers claimed. In fact, I have strong doubts Jude Acers "personally" knew Bobby Fischer at all! Like Ron Gross, it's all a bunch of made up junk, YEARS... decades after the fact... when it was PROFITABLE to slander Fischer. The only time Acers (just like Ron Gross) is in the media, they're riding the "Bobby Fischer Train to Personal Fame" because the Soviet Union was in the market for domestic slander -- promoting himself at Bobby's expense.
"...Fifty-one years later, Jude Acers can still hear the champion’s footsteps approaching him.
It was late on a THURSDAY night — March 24, 1964"
https://www.nola.com/news/article_e6d82a93-4be6-5a9a-b1e8-0ae094859843.html
Check your calendars. That's the first of his errors... and like Ron Gross, he's made many errors.
