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Season 10, W2 – Capital One Takes the Lead

Overview

With two weeks of play now in the books in the NACCL’s tenth season, Capital One reigns supreme! Team “CAP1” was among the group of teams tied for second following week one, but turned in a fantastic performance this week to jump to the top of the standings, narrowly ahead of second place Jane Street.

Team Standings

Jane Street was the only team with 12 points after last week’s games, putting themselves atop the standings, but now trail Capital One by a single point. In clear third place is NVIDIA, with 19.5, featuring three players on 5/6 through two weeks. Stripe and IBM each have 19 points, tying for fourth and fifth, while Google, Jump Trading, DRW Holdings, Databricks, and Susquehanna finish out the top ten. 

Since a team’s score is taken from only the top four players, it may change over time whose scores are counted for a given team. This is true of Capital One, as IM Craig Hilby entered this week with 1.5/3 individually (having not played our first night, thus receiving three half-point byes) but went a perfect 3/3 in his games this week to give his team 4.5 points for the season. One of his games is included with annotations below.

See Team Standings Here

Individual Standings

The only other individual 6/6 in the entire event so far, for any team, has been FM Jacob Furfine of Jane Street. In other words, only two out of the thirty players who posted perfect scores last week were able to duplicate their feat again this week! FM Richard Chen of Databricks and the aforementioned Matthew Kent of Capital One are next, with 5.5 points, while thirteen players have scored 5/6. 

Also scoring 4.5 out of a possible 6 for CAP1 so far is Venkatasai Peram. Justin Li and Matthew Kent have 5 and 5.5 respectively, but the brightest star for the Capital One team has been Marco Flores, who has a perfect 6/6 individually, lifting CAP1 to 21 total on the season.

See Individual Standings Here

Game Analysis

NM Dennis Norman annotates fun league games.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game, please feel free to send Dennis a link to the game via lichess.

Commentary and Lectures

GM Kayden Troff commentated live, which you can replay here. GM Troff and GM Naroditsky will alternate the weekly Monday Chess Improvement lecture at 8:00pm Eastern!

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