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2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

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Our Pre-TNM Lecturers: 

  • 9/2: NM Daniel Cremisi
  • 9/9: IM Elliott Winslow
  • 9/16: NM Daniel Cremisi
  • 9/23: GM Sam Shankland
  • 9/30: IM Elliott Winslow
  • 10/7: NM Daniel Cremisi
  • 10/14: TBA


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Info

  • Date: Tue, Sep 2 - Tue, Oct 14, 2025
  • Eligibility: Open to Everyone!
  • Rating: USCF & FIDE
  • Location: Mechanics' Institute, 4th Floor, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
  • Capacity: 120

Registration

  • Online Registration Open Until: Tuesday, October 14: 6:30 pm
  • Onsite Registration: every Tuesday 5:30-6:15pm
  • Entry fee for Mechanics' Institute Members: $70
    • Play-up fee: $15
  • Entry fee for Non-Members: $100
    • Play-up fee: $20
  • Late fee: $10
  • $5 admin fee for all cancellations & refunds.

Two ways to check your entries:

  • Check the live entries on the Jumbula site by clicking on the View Entries button.
  • Check the processed entries here a day before the event.

 

Tournament Format

  • Tournament Format: Swiss System
  • Total Rounds: 7
  • Time control: 90 min basetime + 30 sec increment
  • Round Times: 9/2 6:30pm 9/9 6:30pm 9/16 6:30pm 9/23 6:30pm 9/30 6:30pm 10/7 6:30pm 10/14 6:30pm
  • Sections: 2000+ 1600-1999 Under1600

Play-up "200-rating point rule":

  • Players must have an 1800 USCF regular supplemental or actual regular rating to be eligible to play up to the 2000+ section.
  • Players must have a 1400 USCF regular supplemental or actual regular rating to be eligible to play up to the 1600-1999 section.

US Chess rating will be used for section determination and pairings.  FIDE or other ratings are only used if no US Chess rating is available. 

Pairings are based on the Sep 2025 regular supplemental regular US Chess rating.

 

Prize Fund

Total Prize Fund: $2,400

  • Prize explanations are coming after the event.
  • Please allow 2-3 weeks for processing prize checks.
  • Per IRS rules anyone with a cumulative $600+ prize in any calendar year will need to fill out a W9 and Mechanics' Institute will be providing a 1099 form. 

 

  • Prize Fund:

    • $2400 based on 60 paid entries
    • Actual Payout: coming after the tournament ended.
  2000+ 1600-1999 u1600
  Projected Actual Projected Actual Projected Actual
1st Place $500   $300   $200  
2nd Place $300   $200   $100  
3rd Place $200   $100   $50  
Best under2200 $100          
Best under2000 $100          
Best under1800     $75      
Best under1600     $75      
Best under1400         $50  
Best under1200         $50  

 

 

Byes

Byes are available for players in any rounds if they can't participate that evening but would like to stay in the tournament.

  • A maximum of three half-point byes can be requested in this tournament.

  • Round 1 pairings will be done on Tuesday at 6:20 pm onsite. If you need a Round 1 bye, please email us by 4:00 pm.

  • Round 2-6 byes must be requested before the pairing of the round by Monday, 6 pm. Pairings usually are posted shortly after 8 pm on Monday, the day before the round.

  • Round 7 bye must be requested before the start of Round 5. Round 7 bye is irrevocable to prevent possible prize-fund manipulations.
  • Late registrations will receive a half-point bye for any missed round, up to three 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

  • Forfeit time:
    • 30 minutes without prior notice
    • 60 minutes with prior notice. Please email to chessroom@milibrary.org or call us to request this!
      A player will be awarded a forfeit win against any opponent who doesn't show up according to the prescribed rules, and every effort will be made to find that player an extra game.
  • We provide clocks and set it up for players.
  • Games will be US Chess and FIDE regular rated. Modified FIDE rules apply.
     
  • What do the time controls mean?
    Time controls tell you how much time you have for each game.
    G90+30 means game in 90 minutes with a 30-second increment with each move. This means you get 90 minutes, your opponent gets 90 minutes, and with each move players get 30 seconds added to their clock.


Mechanics' Institute Chess Club reserves the right to update any details of this event (including but not limited to sections, time control, round times, prize fund, etc.) as we get closer to the event date to ensure an excellent tournament experience for players.

Standings

Standings are updated after each round.

 

List of players as of 9/2 12pm

 

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon: 2000+

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Total
1 Jimmy Heiserman 12799690 2291 H---             0.0
2 Theodore James Coyne 13848228 2239               0.0
3 IM Elliott Winslow 10363365 2200               0.0
4 Christophe Bambou 12734479 2116               0.0
5 Christopher Timothy Atkeson 17080462 2062               0.0
6 Sudarshan Seshadri 12906250 2022             H--- 0.0
7 Patrick M McCollum 11040519 2000               0.0
8 Andrew Zavgorodniy 32143889 1992               0.0
9 Kyle Chan 30063365 1989 H---             0.0
10 Raghu Rajaram 12698822 1947               0.0
11 Hector Viadiu 12586903 1926               0.0
12 Phineas Horowitz 14209057 1923               0.0
13 Neil Kulkarni 16246077 1920               0.0
14 Stephen Parsons 16566932 1861               0.0
15 Marlon Rigel 30206555 1847               0.0
16 Daniel Robert Perlov 16465203 1822               0.0
17 Maksym Tsebrii 32509962 1313               0.0
18 Kristian Clemens 13901075 unr. H---       H--- H---   0.0
19 Robert Crompton 31442886 unr.               0.0
20 Yonathan Admassu 15323127 unr.               0.0

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon: 1600-1999

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Total
1 Michael Walder 10345120 1979               0.0
2 Lucas Lamouroux 31209571 1943               0.0
3 Daniel Sevall 12811060 1922               0.0
4 William Gray 13217831 1921               0.0
5 Frederic Dutter 12343420 1900 H---             0.0
6 Mikhail Chernobilskiy 12878856 1876               0.0
7 Aron Sarmasi 32263284 1857               0.0
8 Sreyshthaa Krishnan 30452740 1783               0.0
9 Nicholas Morello 31114079 1712       H--- H---     0.0
10 Hoa Long Tam 16919862 1698               0.0
11 Phil Ploquin 12535882 1681               0.0
12 Na Chea 15147161 1654               0.0
13 Carl Anthony Pickering 30689170 1652               0.0
14 Isaac S Mays-Smith 30338290 1651       H---       0.0
15 John Boyer 16865157 1636     H--- H--- H---     0.0
16 Charlie Schaezlein 31629140 1609               0.0
17 Nick, Jr Casares 10424364 1600               0.0
18 David Siegel 12595160 1562               0.0
19 Nicolas T Horde 30573134 1558 H---             0.0
20 Bennett McCutcheon 30503085 1548         H---     0.0
21 Sawyer Stults 31608516 1540               0.0
22 Matthew S Klahn 12627779 1522               0.0
23 Daniel J Sisti 12734121 1510     H--- H---       0.0
24 Samuel Agdamag 14874734 1492               0.0
25 Joseph Karwat 16761266 1471   H---           0.0
26 Sacha Marino Sloan 32301287 1459     H---         0.0
27 Dahlia Quinn 30654447 1442 H---             0.0
28 Neeraj Rao 30789296 1430               0.0
29 Edward Lewis 12601629 unr.               0.0

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon: u1600

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Total
1 Richard Hack 12796129 1500 H---             0.0
2 John Chan 12561007 1500               0.0
3 Albert Martin Starr 12844781 1500               0.0
4 Alex Langrog 12636476 1475 H---           H--- 0.0
5 Zachary Wickliffe 32140128 1449               0.0
6 David R Olson 13913131 1400               0.0
7 Brett Fisher 31540384 1385             H--- 0.0
8 John Little 31626985 1383       H---       0.0
9 Dominic A Vazquez 30703139 1343     H---         0.0
10 Andrew Braithwaite 31237898 1311               0.0
11 Calvin Django Dees 30307126 1296 H---             0.0
12 Eric Liu 12929670 1288               0.0
13 Thu Anh Le 17248797 1269               0.0
14 Christian Brickhouse 30261226 1238 H---           H--- 0.0
15 Shaikat Hossain 17207363 1196               0.0
16 Danny Cao 16939797 1187               0.0
17 Mason Tobias 32440186 1152               0.0
18 Ummon Karpe 12932259 1143 H---             0.0
19 Dylan Kwong 16406714 1137               0.0
20 Paul Blum 12748433 1073               0.0
21 Daniel Morris 30424176 1068               0.0
22 Wallace Witkowski 12674345 927               0.0
23 William Fitzgerald 17048414 unr.               0.0
24 Robert Elmendorf 32553826 unr.               0.0
25 Alex Wisnewski 32080306 unr.       H---       0.0

 

Pairings

Round 1 pairings are available onsite at 6:15pm on Tuesday.

Round 2-7 pairings are posted on Monday around 8pm.