Whitehouse Station chess master to attempt Guinness world record in Raritan Borough
Published: Friday, April 08, 2011, 1:15 PM Updated: Friday, April 08, 2011, 1:28 PM
RARITAN — Chess master Dean “The Dean of Chess” Ippolito, 32, of Whitehouse Station will attempt to set a world record tomorrow by playing chess against at least 100 challengers at St. Ann’s School in Raritan Borough. Those challengers must have a rating of at least 1200 by the U.S. Chess Federation.
Ippolito, who has Dean of Chess schools in Flemington and Branchburg, was scheduled to attempt the Guinness World Record for most games played simultaneously last November in Raritan Township. Due to reported controversy surrounding the last two record-breaking events, Guinness has officially retired that record.
In its place, Guinness has created a new “professional” record, which has more stringent rules for the players. Ippolito plans to be the first to attempt this new record Despite the increased level in play amongst the challengers, Guinness has kept the minimum win percentage at 80%.
Ippolito anticipates tomorrow’s event will last 15-20 hours depending on the average rating of the participants. “This will be a very difficult record to accomplish, both physically and mentally. Mistakes against this level of player will be quickly punished,” said Ippolito, who has not lost a game in a simultaneous exhibition in over 15,000 games since 1991. He has been training physically and mentally for this event since last summer.
He recently did a training exhibition at the world famous Marshall Chess Club in New York City in which he played players as rated as high as 2200.
Source: http://www.nj.com
Good luck Dean!
It doesn’t seem that hard, frankly, at least if he also imposes a cap of say 1500. Oh yes, a 1200 will ruthlessly punish any mistake by an IM. Give me a break. One on one, Ippolito could probably give a 1200 queen odds and still win.
“Ippolito, who has not lost a game in a simultaneous exhibition in over 15,000 games since 1991.”
This is hard to believe. He must be the greatest simul-giver of all time, unless most of his games have been against random people in shopping malls and such.