Jude Frazier Acers[1] (born April 6, 1944 in Long Beach, California) is an American chess player.

A longtime resident of Louisiana, he claims to have been the first New Orleans native chess master of comparable strength since Paul Morphy.

In September 2007, Acers defeated Bill Hook in the first round of the World Senior Championship held in Gmunden, Austria.

Acers' his result at the 17th World Senior Chess Championship, culminated into a FIDE performance rating of 2289.

He has annotated many American master-level games, along with Louis Ciamarra, for the Yugoslav-published series Chess Informant.