The Largest Amateur Sports Dome in America -- to Host IM Dean Ippolito’s Attempt

Sept. 3, 2010 - PRLog -- We are very excited to bring these World Records back to America and establish Dean Ippolito as one of the premier chess players in the world,” said Event Director Eric Citron. “We could not do this without the cooperation and support of The Jack Cust Baseball Academy, who have committed their support and the use of the HealthQuest Sports Dome for this historic day. As with anything this big, we want to thank some of our sponsors, which include Diamond Nation, HealthQuest and Chess Player Magazine, for their support. We are expecting about 1,000 people to come participate, play and watch. We are also expecting many vendors as well as press from around the country to be there on the day of the event.”

IM Ippolito will attempt to break the record of 500 simultaneous chess games, currently held by 29-year-old Iranian Grandmaster Morteza Majoob, who set the record in Iran.

The second world record attempt that IM Ippolito also wants to break is the 88-year-old winning percentage record in a simultaneous, which was set by Cuban-born World Champion Jose Raul Capablanca, who played 102 games and won 101 and drew 1 for a 99.5 percent score.

While IM Ippolito is training to break both of those records, the 140,000 square-foot HealthQuest Sports Dome is the perfect setting to bring these World Record back home to the United States.

IM Ippolito, who started playing chess at the remarkably early age of two-and-a-half, is no stranger to winning as has not lost a game in a simultaneous since the early 90s, which includes simultaneous wins against Masters, National Champions, and other top chess players. IM Ippolito routinely plays 50-player exhibitions and has played several exhibitions with over a 100 players, one of the first such when he was just 10 years old.

IM Ippolito, who attained the elite level of International Master in 1999, is a ten-time All-America Team member and eleven-time National Champion. IM Ippolito has been trained by some of the best and most notable chess instructors in the world.

Not only has IM Ippolito been successful as a player, but a coach as well. He has coached thirteen nationally ranked scholastic players, nine of whom are ranked in the top 10 nationally for their respective age groups, and has a total of eight national championships as a coach, including two-time National Champion Eric Liao, who won his first national title at the age of four, making him the youngest player to win a national title in history.

If you would like to sign up to play against IM Ippolito in the World Record attempt, visit: www.chessworldrecord.com  And if you would like to be a sponsor and give your Company and/or Brand Local, National and International recognition, please contact Eric Citron at 908-455-1613.