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Season 10, W4 – Jane Street Maintains Lead

Overview

Four weeks into the North American Corporate Chess League season, Jane Street Capital reigns supreme. With 38.5 team points out of a possible 48, Jane Street currently stands four points ahead of second place as we near the midway point of the NACCL schedule. 

Team Standings

Jane Street has held the overall lead at the end of three of our four weeks of play, trailing briefly to Capital One at the end of Week Two. A team’s total score is comprised of the top four individual scores on the team across all weeks of play, so it’s no wonder Jane Street is in the lead, as all four of the top scorers on the team are titled players! FM Jacob Furfine, FM David Peng, WIM Emily Nguyen, and NM Christopher Yang have each contributed at least eight points for Jane Street, with Leonardo DiPerna also on eight points individually.

Google currently sits in second place with 34.5 points, led by Bret Bryan with 9 out of a possible 12 (and a perfect score in his three games this past Thursday). Jump Trading, with 33 points, had a strong week and climbed from fifth last week to third place in the current standings. Ernst & Young and Susquehanna are currently tied for fourth and fifth place with 32 points each.

Tied for sixth place are PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM, with 31.5 each, while Capital One, having led the overall standings two weeks ago, is now in clear eighth at 31 points. Five teams are tied for ninth-through-thirteenth place at 30.5 points: DRW Holdings, Databricks, Stripe, Roblox, and NVIDIA

See Team Standings Here

Individual Standings

FM Jacob Furfine is still perfect, having won all twelve games so far in the NACCL season. No other player has over ten points, with Furfine’s teammate FM David Peng on 10 flat (also having scored a perfect 3/3 this past week). FM Richard Chen of Databricks, NM Andrew Lu of DRW Holdings, and Freddy Santos of AFS are each on 9.5 points.

Five players have 9 points to round out the top ten: GM Andrey Baryshpolets of PWC, Daniel Prado of Ernst & Young, Bret Bryan of Google, Venkatasai Peram of Capital One, and Brian McCabe of HPE. All except for Peram won all three games on Thursday.  

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!

League Note

This week October 28 – November 3 is a bye week as Thursday falls on Halloween. There will be no lecture or league games played this week.

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