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2025 Mechanics' Institute Monthly Scholastic Swiss - Aug

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Info

  • Date: Sat, Aug 9 , 2025
  • Eligibility: Open to Everyone!
  • Rating: USCF
  • Location: 57 Post Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104
  • Capacity: n/a

Registration

  • Online Registration Open Until: Saturday, August 9: 9:45 am
  • Onsite Registration: 9:45am
  • Entry fee for Mechanics' Institute Members: $30
  • Entry fee for Non-Members: $35
  • Late fee: $10
  • $5 admin fee for all cancellations & refunds.
  • Two ways to check your entries:
    • Check the live entries on the Jumbula registration page.
    • Check the processed entries here a day before the event.

Tournament Format

  • Tournament Format: Swiss System
  • Total Rounds: 4
  • Time control: 30 min basetime + 5 sec delay
  • Round Times: 8/9 10:00am and remaining rounds are on a rolling schedule
  • Sections: U600 600+

Sections might be adjusted based on signups to best serve the players. Play-ups are allowed free of charge for scholastic players as long as they are within 200-rating points to the next section.

Prize Fund

Trophies to Top 5 in each section.

Medals to all others.

 

Prizes: 2025 Mechanics' Institute Scholastic Swiss - Aug

# Name Non-cash prize Section
1 Raymond Shao (4.0/1185) 1st Place 600+
2 Blouin Morin (3.0/1079) 2nd Place
7 Shane Davis (3.0/674) 3rd Place
10 Daniel Navi (2.5/497) 4th Place
9 Oliver Vankov (2.0/621) 5th Place
2 Ean Park (3.0/456) 1st Place u600
3 Shivaansh Girish (3.0/377) 2nd Place
9 Wesley Berg (3.0/0) 3rd Place
1 Jack Abrams (2.5/534) 4th Place
8 Gianluca Witkowski (2.5/0) 5th Place

 

Byes

  • Byes are available for players in any rounds if they can't participate in any round but would like to stay in the tournament.
  • A maximum of two half-point byes can be requested in this tournament.
  • Round 1 pairings will be done on Saturday at 9:50 am onsite. If you need a Round 1 bye, please email us by 9:45 am.
  • Round 2-4 byes must be requested 10-15 minutes before next round start (i.e. before the pairings are done for the next round.)
  • Late registrations will receive a half-point bye for any missed round, up to two rounds.

Eligibility

  • Players must have current US Chess Federation membership. Expiration date of their US Chess membership must be later than the last day of the tournament.
  • Not sure if you have a membership? Need to check the expiration date of your members? Visit: https://new.uschess.org/player-search
  • Become a member or renew your membership: https://new.uschess.org/join-us-chessT

Tournament Rules

  • We provide clocks and set it up for players.
  • Games will be US Chess regular and quick-rated (so-called dual-rated). Tournament results will be submitted immediately after the last round is finished.

Standings

Processed entries are coming 1 day before the event starts.

Final standings will be posted after the event is finished.

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Mechanics' Institute Scholastic Swiss - Aug: 600+

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total T-Mod. Med T-Med T-Solk Prize
1 Raymond Shao 30785440 1185 W10 W6 W2 W4 4.0 7 4 8 1st Place
2 Blouin Morin 16811276 1079 W3 W9 L1 W6 3.0 8.5 4.5 9.5 2nd Place
3 Shane Davis 32212404 674 L2 W8 W9 W7 3.0 5 2 6 3rd Place
4 Daniel Navi 32477668 497 W8 W7 D6 L1 2.5 6.5 2.5 7.5 4th Place
5 Oliver Vankov 31812421 621 L6 W10 L7 W8 2.0 2 2 4.5 5th Place
6 Sasha Chugh 30923072 848 W5 L1 D4 L2 1.5 7.5 5.5 11.5  
7 Eva Aksutina 32402586 998 L9 L4 W5 L3 1.0 5.5 4.5 8.5  
8 Evan Tsao 32210461 758 L4 L3 W10 L5 1.0 5.5 4.5 8.5  
9 Sergei Pimenov 31964181 669 W7 L2 L3 L10 1.0 5 4 8  
10 Luke Li 31069869 698 L1 L5 L8 W9 1.0 4 3 8  

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Mechanics' Institute Scholastic Swiss - Aug: u600

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total T-Mod. Med T-Med T-Solk Prize
1 Wesley Berg 32419919 unr. W8 W6 W3 L2 3.0 7 4 8 1st Place
2 Shivaansh Girish 32467199 377 L4 B--- W6 W1 3.0 7 4 7 2nd Place
3 Ean Park 32420302 456 W9 W4 L1 W8 3.0 6.5 3.5 7 3rd Place
4 Gianluca Witkowski 32520910 unr. W2 L3 W7 D5 2.5 8 5 9.5 4th Place
5 Jack Abrams 30537170 534 L6 W7 W8 D4 2.5 5.5 3 6.5 5th Place
6 Grady Kempf 32529820 unr. W5 L1 L2 B--- 2.0 5 5 8  
7 Shaurya Prashar 32370274 254 B--- L5 L4 W9 2.0 3 3 5.5  
8 Kian Tsao 32529473 unr. L1 W9 L5 L3 1.0 6 5.5 9  
9 James Ha 32530054 unr. L3 L8 B--- L7 1.0 2.5 2.5 5.5  

 

Pairings

Pairings are posted on the wall of the club. We do not post pairings online for 1-day events.