Located in downtown Worthington, this club has a very relaxed flavor to it. A place where anyone is welcome to come, sip on a drink, relax, and not feel intimidated. Like the old English Pub, except with hot chocolate/coffee instead of beer, and chess instead of darts. Players of all strengths participate. The more experienced players tend to take a mentoring/teaching role to the less experienced players. It is a place where taking a move back is not frowned upon, thus the name of the club being 'The Mulligan Chess Club' (mulligan being a golf term for hitting the ball again, without a penalty, if you did not like your shot). The Mean Bean is not charging us for the use of their store, but in return we usually buy something when we are there.

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Vilenchuk sweeps the field in the1st Mulligan Action Tournament

The 1st Mulligan Quick tournament (15 minutes per game) was held Saturday October 18th and seemed
to be really enjoyed by all who attended. Two of the top Scholastic players in the state, Michael
Vilenchuk and John Hughes competed. Michael won all of his games finishing is clear first.
John won all of his games except for his lose to Michael, finishing in clear 2nd. Someone over
20 years old (yeah!) finished in clear third, Vik Raman. There was a tie for the top under 1000
money between 3rd grader Abhi Ramaswamy and Brianna Coleman. The winner was
determined by a 5 minute playoff game which was won by Abhi.

Casden wins World Open, Johnson finishes 2nd

The Mulligan World Open was held on 4 consecutive Saturday, across July and August, 2008. Going into the last round, Vik Raman and Alan Casden were the only players left with perfect 3 - 0 scores while Mark Johnson and John Michael Wright were the only players with 2.5 - .5 scores, both having dropped their half points with scheduled byes. So, it led to an exciting finish with all of the top 4 players having won all of their games that they had played. With the white pieces, Casden had a slight advantage over Raman in the opening. However, true to his chess style, Raman complicated the position until it was difficult to tell who was winning. However, an unfortunate mistake gave Casden the win and the championship. John Michael Wright, the Ohio 3rd grade level champion, was having a strong tournament and was winning his last round game against Mark Johnson. However, John Michael was in time pressure and Mark was able to turn the tables and win the contest, securing himself clear 2nd place. Johnson's strong performance gained him 111 rating points. As a consolation for John Michael, his score was still good enough to win the Under 1400 prize. Tie breaks were only needed for the Under 600 prize, where the 2nd level of tie breaks were necessary to award the prize to Carrie Casden over Eric Kramer. Carrie was playing in her first tournament.