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The Tuesday Night Marathon

The Mechanics' Tuesday Night Marathon (TNM) has a rich tradition that dates back at least 50 years. The idea of playing serious chess one night a week has appealed to a broad range of players from Senior Master to beginners, who find the time commitment fits their schedule quite comfortably. Today we think of seven rounds as the normal duration for a TNM, but that has not always been the case. In 1975 they played 12 rounds per tournament. Recently the Marathon switched to having sudden death for the second time control. It was probably the last tournament in the world to still feature adjourned games, the rest of the chess community having given up the practice years ago due to the rise in playing strength of computers. The Mechanics' Institute still has several hundred adjourned move envelopes, which will no doubt become collector's items.

The TNM provides strong competition for players ranging in strength from Master to beginner. The Marathon is a perfect fit for those who can't commit an entire weekend to chess. No matter what your strength, the Tuesday Night Marathon might be the right tournament for you!

Testimonials

"Thanks as always for putting on such a great tournament. Looking forward to the next one." Joel C.
"Thank you so much for running just another successful event. Chess community really owes you for the energy and efforts you put into making Bay Area a United States' premier chess hub." Felix G.
"I really enjoyed playing the last four weeks. How do I sign up for the next one?" Paul K.

 

Current Marathon Standings • Pairings for the Next Round • Flyer and Registration Info

1st Jeremy Silman Tuesday Night Marathon

July 9th to August 20th
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Prize Winners:

 

 
Standings:


 Standings  (wallchart below)

SwissSys Standings. 1st Jeremy Silman Memorial Tuesday Night Marathon: Open

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Total
1 Daniel Cremisi 14543654 2401 W60             1.0
2 FM Andy C Lee 12559999 2328 W61             1.0
3 Archit Dasika 14903402 2227 W62             1.0
4 Theodore James Coyne 13848228 2204 W63     H---       1.0
5 Luke Widjaja 16010621 2197 W64 H---   H---   H---   1.0
6 IM Elliott Winslow 10363365 2166 W65             1.0
7 Christopher Timothy Atkeson 17080462 2162 W66     H---       1.0
8 Michael Lin 13732397 2149 W67             1.0
9 Bradley R Diller 10079993 2116 W68             1.0
10 Christophe Bambou 12734479 2099 W69         H--- H--- 1.0
11 Max Hao 16083648 2035 W70             1.0
12 Lucas Lesniewski 17039584 2011 W71             1.0
13 Roger Christopher Smith 14437543 1980 W72             1.0
14 Michael Walder 10345120 1976 W73             1.0
15 Anthony Vladimir Ivanenko 30902660 1969 W74             1.0
16 Kristian Clemens 13901075 1954 W75             1.0
17 William Gray 13217831 1918 B---             1.0
18 Wilson Wong 14507850 1916 W76             1.0
19 Frederic Dutter 12343420 1904 W77             1.0
20 Kayven Riese 12572270 1900 W78   H---     H---   1.0
21 Stephen Parsons 16566932 1859 W79             1.0
22 Christopher Powers 30462548 1852 W80             1.0
23 Adam Mercado 16571026 1812 W81             1.0
24 Sheng Jian 31211361 1774 W82             1.0
25 Leonid Alzhin 14144415 1764 W83             1.0
26 Joshua Lamstein 15487526 1751 W84     H--- H--- H---   1.0
27 Yonathan Admassu 15323127 1750 W85             1.0
28 Kar Lun Cheng 30599116 1704 W86             1.0
29 Lee Cooper 14563710 1670 W87             1.0
30 Na Chea 15147161 1655 W88             1.0
31 Clarke Raymond Vandenhoven 30441457 1650 W89             1.0
32 Serena Liu 16887121 1648 X90             1.0
33 Gagik Babayan 15695454 1627 W91             1.0
34 Thejas Prasad 12890181 1625 W92             1.0
35 Nicolas T Horde 30573134 1624 W93             1.0
36 John Boyer 16865157 1493 W57 H---     H---     1.0
37 Binh Khac Nguyen 31695943 1386 B--- H---           1.0
38 Thu Anh Le 17248797 1283 W58             1.0
39 Sawyer Stults 31608516 1182 W59             1.0
40 Jay Dave Kumar 13041993 2013 H--- H---           0.5
41 Neil Chalissery 15495526 1993 H---             0.5
42 Jenny Qi 17050786 1947 H--- H---           0.5
43 Arvind Sankar 13890891 1925 D50             0.5
44 Hector Viadiu-Ilarraza 12586903 1919 H--- H---           0.5
45 Igor Krayushkin 12902786 1727 H---             0.5
46 Robert H Smith 12463327 1723 H--- H---           0.5
47 Robert Crompton 31442886 1686 H---     H--- H--- U---   0.5
48 Max L Ross 16425248 1610 H---       H--- H---   0.5
49 Jossy Chalissery 12795405 1607 H---             0.5
50 Zack Schuster 30179651 1387 D43   H---         0.5
51 Dominic A Vazquez 30703139 1209 H---             0.5
52 William Fitzgerald 17048414 1199 H--- H---           0.5
53 Ummon Karpe 12932259 1137 H---             0.5
54 Dahlia Madden 30654447 1064 H---             0.5
55 Jeremy Alejandro Figueroa 31361388 1008 H---             0.5
56 Andrew Singer 30803745 985 H---             0.5
57 Patrick McCollum 11040519 2050 L36             0.0
58 Hayes Alexander Marvin 30636603 1876 L38             0.0
59 Felix Liu 14709715 1832 L39             0.0
60 Nicholas Morello 31114079 1617 L1             0.0
61 Nick, Jr Casares 10424364 1600 L2             0.0
62 Hoa Long Tam 16919862 1584 L3             0.0
63 Phil Ploquin 12535882 1576 L4             0.0
64 Phineas F Horowitz 14209057 1560 L5             0.0
65 John Chan 12561007 1552 L6             0.0
66 Glenn Kaplan 12680193 1543 L7             0.0
67 Romeo Belmes Barreyro 17018168 1521 L8             0.0
68 Neal Sundar 17307025 1510 L9         H---   0.0
69 Albert Martin Starr 12844781 1500 L10             0.0
70 Samuel Agdamag 14874734 1467 L11             0.0
71 Tao Ni 30260481 1449 L12             0.0
72 Oliver Peter Nystrom Burke 31407524 1426 L13     H--- H--- H---   0.0
73 Sanjay D'Mello 31767090 1424 L14             0.0
74 Jinfeng Liu 16244917 1413 L15             0.0
75 David R Olson 13913131 1400 L16             0.0
76 Nicholas M Brown 12446259 1325 L18       H--- H---   0.0
77 David Paul Toczyski 30713291 1319 L19 H---           0.0
78 Charlie Schaezlein 31629140 1311 L20             0.0
79 Danny Du Uy Cao 16939797 1265 L21 H---           0.0
80 Peter James Rushton 16453812 1217 L22             0.0
81 Richard William Ahrens 16953298 1069 L23             0.0
82 Renate Otterbach 14565208 1029 L24             0.0
83 Kyle Ewart Coventry Booth 30715175 1006 L25             0.0
84 Samuel Tseng Brown 16380615 976 L26             0.0
85 Andrew Braithwaite 31237898 969 L27     H---   H--- H--- 0.0
86 Anthony Patrick Carion 31307134 883 L28             0.0
87 Thomas N Mullins 16720471 878 L29             0.0
88 Zachary Halle 31331691 768 L30             0.0
89 Braxton Wardle 31661706 398 L31             0.0
90 Rob Norback 31848351 unr. F32             0.0
91 Keagan McClelland 31944502 unr. L33             0.0
92 Thomas Chester 31952244 unr. L34             0.0
93 Saadit Ahmed 16489827 unr. L35       H--- H--- H--- 0.0

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. 1st Jeremy Silman Memorial Tuesday Night Marathon: Open (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name/Rating/ID Cb/Sx Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7
1 Daniel Cremisi USA B 60            
  2401 14543654 (2215) (2089882) M 1.0            
2 FM Andy C Lee USA W 61            
  2328 12559999 (2194) (2017180) M 1.0            
3 Archit Dasika USA B 62            
  2227 14903402 (2041) (2093650) M 1.0            
4 Theodore James Coyne USA W 63     bye      
  2204 13848228 (2091) (2057620) M 1.0            
5 Luke Widjaja USA B 64 bye   bye   bye  
  2197 16010621 (2140) (30984793) M 1.0            
6 IM Elliott Winslow USA W 65            
  2166 10363365 (2026) (2002523) M 1.0            
7 Christopher Timothy Atkeson USA B 66     bye      
  2162 17080462 (1883) (39956547) M 1.0            
8 Michael Lin USA W 67            
  2149 13732397 (2067) (2040980) M 1.0            
9 Bradley R Diller USA B 68            
  2116 10079993 (1855) (39928403) M 1.0            
10 Christophe Bambou FRA W 69         bye bye
  2099 12734479 (1928) (2046750) M 1.0            
11 Max Hao USA W 70            
  2035 16083648 (1872) (30956560) M 1.0            
12 Lucas Lesniewski NOR B 71            
  2011 17039584 (1996) (651082373) M 1.0            
13 Roger Christopher Smith USA W 72            
  1980 14437543 (1897) (30901472) M 1.0            
14 Michael Walder USA B 73            
  1976 10345120 (1912) (30912962) M 1.0            
15 Anthony Vladimir Ivanenko USA W 74            
  1969 30902660 (1836) (39914780) M 1.0            
16 Kristian Clemens USA B 75            
  1954 13901075 (1835) (30917344) M 1.0            
17 William Gray USA bye            
  1918 13217831 (1897) (2031639) M 1.0            
18 Wilson Wong USA W 76            
  1916 14507850 (1843) (39914763) M 1.0            
19 Frederic Dutter USA B 77            
  1904 12343420 (1710) (2091046) M 1.0            
20 Kayven Riese USA W 78   bye     bye  
  1900 12572270 (1730) (2010445) M 1.0            
21 Stephen Parsons USA W 79            
  1859 16566932 (1775) (30968674) M 1.0            
22 Christopher Powers USA B 80            
  1852 30462548 (1821) (30998905) M 1.0            
23 Adam Mercado USA B 81            
  1812 16571026 (1792) (30950180) M 1.0            
24 Sheng Jian USA W 82            
  1774 31211361 (1779) (39920518) M 1.0            
25 Leonid Alzhin USA B 83            
  1764 14144415 (1846) (2065878) M 1.0            
26 Joshua Lamstein USA W 84     bye bye bye  
  1751 15487526 (1761) (30913071) M 1.0            
27 Yonathan Admassu USA B 85            
  1750 15323127 (1759) (30948444) M 1.0            
28 Kar Lun Cheng USA W 86            
  1704 30599116 (1669) (39944204) M 1.0            
29 Lee Cooper USA B 87            
  1670 14563710 (1735) (30979072) M 1.0            
30 Na Chea USA W 88            
  1655 15147161 (1785) (2095882) M 1.0            
31 Clarke Raymond Vandenhoven USA B 89            
  1650 30441457 (1666) (30995744) M 1.0            
32 Serena Liu USA - 90            
  1648 16887121 (1642) (39906922) F X1.0            
33 Gagik Babayan   B 91            
  1627 15695454   1.0            
34 Thejas Prasad USA W 92            
  1625 12890181 (unr.) (2061120) M 1.0            
35 Nicolas T Horde USA B 93            
  1624 30573134 (1672) (30998972) M 1.0            
36 John Boyer USA W 57 bye     bye    
  1493 16865157 (1907) (30958385) M 1.0            
37 Binh Khac Nguyen USA bye bye          
  1386 31695943 (unr.) (39953319) M 1.0            
38 Thu Anh Le USA W 58            
  1283 17248797 (1585) (30972396) F 1.0            
39 Sawyer Stults USA B 59            
  1182 31608516 (1763) (39946673) M 1.0            
40 Jay Dave Kumar USA bye bye          
  2013 13041993 (2014) (39953076) M 0.5            
41 Neil Chalissery USA bye            
  1993 15495526 (1857) (39931676) M 0.5            
42 Jenny Qi USA bye bye          
  1947 17050786 (1742) (30995914) F 0.5            
43 Arvind Sankar USA W 50            
  1925 13890891 (1872) (2079534) M 0.5            
44 Hector Viadiu-Ilarraza USA bye bye          
  1919 12586903 (1831) (39905020) M 0.5            
45 Igor Krayushkin USA bye            
  1727 12902786 (1740) (150110756) M 0.5            
46 Robert H Smith USA bye bye          
  1723 12463327 (1821) (30932114) M 0.5            
47 Robert Crompton ENG bye     bye bye ----  
  1686 31442886 (1697) (497991) M 0.5            
48 Max L Ross USA bye       bye bye  
  1610 16425248 (1682) (30946484) M 0.5            
49 Jossy Chalissery USA bye            
  1607 12795405 (1744) (2009684) M 0.5            
50 Zack Schuster USA B 43   bye        
  1387 30179651 (1589) (39941027) M 0.5            
51 Dominic A Vazquez USA bye            
  1209 30703139 (1571) (39920372) M 0.5            
52 William Fitzgerald USA bye bye          
  1199 17048414 (1548) (39903940) M 0.5            
53 Ummon Karpe USA bye            
  1137 12932259 (1627) (39909298) M 0.5            
54 Dahlia Madden USA bye            
  1064 30654447 (unr.) (39952045) F 0.5            
55 Jeremy Alejandro Figueroa USA bye            
  1008 31361388 (unr.) (39958655) M 0.5            
56 Andrew Singer USA bye            
  985 30803745 (1484) (39909310) M 0.5            
57 Patrick McCollum   B 36            
  2050 11040519   0.0            
58 Hayes Alexander Marvin USA B 38            
  1876 30636603 (1842) (39907350) M 0.0            
59 Felix Liu USA W 39            
  1832 14709715 (1744) (30940249) M 0.0            
60 Nicholas Morello USA W 1            
  1617 31114079 (1714) (39921549) M 0.0            
61 Nick, Jr Casares USA B 2            
  1600 10424364 (1524) (30901995) M 0.0            
62 Hoa Long Tam USA W 3            
  1584 16919862 (1645) (30989779) M 0.0            
63 Phil Ploquin USA B 4            
  1576 12535882 (1664) (2052849) M 0.0            
64 Phineas F Horowitz USA W 5            
  1560 14209057 (1921) (39950107) M 0.0            
65 John Chan USA B 6            
  1552 12561007 (1613) (2009765) M 0.0            
66 Glenn Kaplan USA W 7            
  1543 12680193 (1740) (30965799) M 0.0            
67 Romeo Belmes Barreyro USA B 8            
  1521 17018168 (1758) (30963435) M 0.0            
68 Neal Sundar USA W 9         bye  
  1510 17307025 (unr.) (30981395) M 0.0            
69 Albert Martin Starr USA B 10            
  1500 12844781 (1601) (2010550) M 0.0            
70 Samuel Agdamag USA B 11            
  1467 14874734 (1655) (2083396) M 0.0            
71 Tao Ni USA W 12            
  1449 30260481 (1686) (39924114) M 0.0            
72 Oliver Peter Nystrom Burke USA B 13     bye bye bye  
  1426 31407524 (1634) (39936074) M 0.0            
73 Sanjay D'Mello USA W 14            
  1424 31767090 (1867) (39950115) M 0.0            
74 Jinfeng Liu USA B 15            
  1413 16244917 (unr.) (39948528) M 0.0            
75 David R Olson USA W 16            
  1400 13913131 (1475) (2054850) M 0.0            
76 Nicholas M Brown USA B 18       bye bye  
  1325 12446259 (1700) (2009625) M 0.0            
77 David Paul Toczyski USA W 19 bye          
  1319 30713291 (1663) (39918416) M 0.0            
78 Charlie Schaezlein USA B 20            
  1311 31629140 (1969) (39946690) M 0.0            
79 Danny Du Uy Cao USA B 21 bye          
  1265 16939797 (1522) (30964938) M 0.0            
80 Peter James Rushton USA W 22            
  1217 16453812 (1602) (30946506) M 0.0            
81 Richard William Ahrens USA W 23            
  1069 16953298 (1511) (30960452) M 0.0            
82 Renate Otterbach USA B 24            
  1029 14565208 (1481) (2068460) F 0.0            
83 Kyle Ewart Coventry Booth USA W 25            
  1006 30715175 (1540) (39906981) M 0.0            
84 Samuel Tseng Brown USA B 26            
  976 16380615 (unr.) (39914658) M 0.0            
85 Andrew Braithwaite USA W 27     bye   bye bye
  969 31237898 (1825) (39928497) M 0.0            
86 Anthony Patrick Carion USA B 28            
  883 31307134 (unr.) (39954749) M 0.0            
87 Thomas N Mullins USA W 29            
  878 16720471 (unr.) (39916243) M 0.0            
88 Zachary Halle USA B 30            
  768 31331691 (1636) (39928500) M 0.0            
89 Braxton Wardle USA W 31            
  398 31661706 (unr.) (39953041) M 0.0            
90 Rob Norback USA - 32            
  unr. 31848351 (unr.) (39958671) M F0.0            
91 Keagan McClelland USA W 33            
  unr. 31944502 (unr.) (39958663) M 0.0            
92 Thomas Chester USA B 34            
  unr. 31952244 (unr.) (39958680) M 0.0            
93 Saadit Ahmed USA W 35       bye bye bye
  unr. 16489827 (unr.) (39958701) M 0.0            
Pairings:

 Pairings

Pairings for Round 1. 1st Jeremy Silman Memorial Tuesday Night Marathon: Open

Bd Res White Res Black
1 0 Nicholas Morello (1617 0.0) 1 Daniel Cremisi (2401 0.0)
2 1 FM Andy C Lee (2328 0.0) 0 Nick, Jr Casares (1600 0.0)
3 0 Hoa Long Tam (1584 0.0) 1 Archit Dasika (2227 0.0)
4 1 Theodore James Coyne (2204 0.0) 0 Phil Ploquin (1576 0.0)
5 0 Phineas F Horowitz (1560 0.0) 1 Luke Widjaja (2197 0.0)
6 1 IM Elliott Winslow (2166 0.0) 0 John Chan (1552 0.0)
7 0 Glenn Kaplan (1543 0.0) 1 Christopher Timothy Atkeson (2162 0.0)
8 1 Michael Lin (2149 0.0) 0 Romeo Belmes Barreyro (1521 0.0)
9 0 Neal Sundar (1510 0.0) 1 Bradley R Diller (2116 0.0)
10 1 Christophe Bambou (2099 0.0) 0 Albert Martin Starr (1500 0.0)
11 1 John Boyer (1493 0.0) 0 Patrick McCollum (2050 0.0)
12 1 Max Hao (2035 0.0) 0 Samuel Agdamag (1467 0.0)
13 0 Tao Ni (1449 0.0) 1 Lucas Lesniewski (2011 0.0)
14 1 Roger Christopher Smith (1980 0.0) 0 Oli Nystrom Burke (1426 0.0)
15 0 Sanjay D'Mello (1424 0.0) 1 Michael Walder (1976 0.0)
16 1 Anthony Vladimir Ivanenko (1969 0.0) 0 Jinfeng Liu (1413 0.0)
17 0 David R Olson (1400 0.0) 1 Kristian Clemens (1954 0.0)
18 ½ Arvind Sankar (1925 0.0) ½ Zack Schuster (1387 0.0)
20 1 Wilson Wong (1916 0.0) 0 Nicholas M Brown (1325 0.0)
21 0 David Paul Toczyski (1319 0.0) 1 Frederic Dutter (1904 0.0)
22 1 Kayven Riese (1900 0.0) 0 Charlie Schaezlein (1311 0.0)
23 1 Thu Anh Le (1283 0.0) 0 Hayes Alexander Marvin (1876 0.0)
24 1 Stephen Parsons (1859 0.0) 0 Danny Du Uy Cao (1265 0.0)
25 0 Peter James Rushton (1217 0.0) 1 Christopher Powers (1852 0.0)
26 0 Felix Liu (1832 0.0) 1 Sawyer Stults (1182 0.0)
27 0 Richard William Ahrens (1069 0.0) 1 Adam Mercado (1812 0.0)
28 1 Sheng Jian (1774 0.0) 0 Renate Otterbach (1029 0.0)
29 0 Kyle Ewart Coventry Booth (1006 0.0) 1 Leonid Alzhin (1764 0.0)
30 1 Joshua Lamstein (1751 0.0) 0 Samuel Tseng Brown ( 976 0.0)
31 0 Andrew Braithwaite ( 969 0.0) 1 Yonathan Admassu (1750 0.0)
32 1 Kar Lun Cheng (1704 0.0) 0 Anthony Patrick Carion ( 883 0.0)
33 0 Thomas N Mullins ( 878 0.0) 1 Lee Cooper (1670 0.0)
34 1 Na Chea (1655 0.0) 0 Zachary Halle ( 768 0.0)
35 0 Braxton Wardle ( 398 0.0) 1 Clarke Raymond Vandenhoven (1650 0.0)
36 1 X Serena Liu (1648 0.0) 0 F Rob Norback (unr. 0.0)
37 0 Keagan McClelland (unr. 0.0) 1 Gagik Babayan (1627 0.0)
38 1 Thejas Prasad (1625 0.0) 0 Thomas Chester (unr. 0.0)
39 0 Saadit Ahmed (unr. 0.0) 1 Nicolas T Horde (1624 0.0)
  1 William Gray (1918 0.0)   See T.D.
  1 Binh Khac Nguyen (1386 0.0)   See T.D.
  ½ Igor Krayushkin (1727 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Jay Dave Kumar (2013 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Neil Chalissery (1993 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Robert H Smith (1723 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Robert Crompton (1686 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Jenny Qi (1947 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Max L Ross (1610 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Jossy Chalissery (1607 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Hector Viadiu-Ilarraza (1919 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Dominic A Vazquez (1209 0.0)   BYE
  ½ William Fitzgerald (1199 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Ummon Karpe (1137 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Dahlia Madden (1064 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Jeremy Alejandro Figueroa (1008 0.0)   BYE
  ½ Andrew Singer ( 985 0.0)   BYE