IM Ippolito To Attempt New Guinness World Record Whithouse Station, NJ: This Saturday

Online, April 6, 2011 (Newswire.com) - 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 where he will have to play at least 100 challengers with a minimum established rating of 1200 USCF or FIDE. Despite the increased level in play amongst the challengers, Guinness has kept the minimum win percentage at 80%.

The new attempt is set for this Saturday at St. Ann's School in Raritan, NJ. Ippolito anticipates the entire 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 NYC in which he played players as high as 2200.
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