2025 Mechanics' Institute Monthly Quads - Aug

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Registration

• Online Registration Open Until: Saturday, August 9: 2:00 pm
• Onsite Registration: until 2:30pm
• Entry fee for Mechanics' Institute Members: $30
• Entry fee for Non-Members: $40
• Late fee: $10
• $5 admin fee for all cancellations & refunds.

• Two ways to check your entries:
  • Check the live entries on the Jumbula site.
  • Check the processed entries here a day before the event.
• Please note our late fee is now in effect and is added 24 hours before the start of a tournament in case capacity reaches 75%.

Tournament Format

• Tournament Format: Round Robin
• Total Rounds: 3
• Time control: 30 min basetime + 5
• Round Times: 8/9 3:10pm 4:20pm 5:30pm

Number of quads are based on signups.

Players are grouped into quads in rating order from highest to lowest. If the final group does not have exactly four players, it will become a small Swiss pairing group. Unrated players will be placed in the lower sections, with no more than two unrated players per group.

Prize Fund

$60 -- Winner takes it ALL!

• 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 must fill out a W-9; the Mechanics' Institute will also provide a 1099 form. 

 

Byes

• No byes are available!

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

• What do the time controls mean?
  Time controls tell you how much time you have for each game.
  G30;d5 means game in 30 minutes with a 5-second delay on each move. This means you get 30 minutes, your opponent gets 30 minutes, and at each move the clock counts down from 5 to 0 before the player's time starts. If a player doesn't use up the whole 5 seconds, the remainder of that time is lost.
• How many games/rounds?
  The event is a 4-player round robin. There are 4 players in each quads, and everyone plays with everyone. This means that a player will play three rounds, aka three games, in the tournament. No byes are available in this tournament. Mid-tournament withdrawals are highly discouraged.

• We provide clocks and set it up for players.
• Games will be US Chess regular and quick-rated (so-called dual-rated).

Standings

Processed entries are coming 1 day before the event starts.

Final standings will be posted after the event is finished.

 

Pairings

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