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1st John Grefe Memorial Tournament

Saturday, August 3, 2024

In-Person Over-The-Board Event

Open for everyone!
 

Final Results -- Prize Winners

Date & Location -- Tournament Format -- Byes -- Prize Fund

Registration -- Eligibility -- Tournament Rules -- FAQ
 

Wearing a mask is optional.
Tournament capacity: 80 players.
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Note: As of 8/2 8AM the tournament is full. We'll be contacting players from the wait list in the order they signed up in case a spot opens up due to withdrawal.
We do encourage anyone to complete the signup for the wait list: there is no payment involved to sign up for the wait list.

1. Date & Location

  • Saturday, August 3, 2024
  • Location: Mechanics' Institute Chess Room
    57 Post Street, 4th Floor
    San Francisco, CA 94104 (click here to map)
     

2. Tournament Format:

  • Tournament Format: Swiss System
  • Total Rounds: 4
  • Round Times: 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm
  • Time Control: G/40;d5  (Game in 40 minutes with a 5-second delay at each move.)
  • Games will be US Chess regular-rated. Tournament results will be submitted immediately after the last round is finished.
  • NEW: Four sections: 2000+, 1600-1999, 1200-1599, u1200 & unrated players
  • Pairings are based on the August 2024 regular supplemental US Chess rating.
  • Play-up rule:
    Players must have an 1800 USCF regular supplemental rating in order to be eligible to play up to the 2000+ section;
    Players must have a 1400 USCF regular supplemental rating in order to be eligible to play up to the 1600-1999 section;
    Players must have a 1000 USCF regular supplemental rating in order to be eligible to play up to the 1200-1599 section;
    Unrated players may only play in the u1200 section.

3. Byes

  • Byes are available for players in any rounds in case they can't participate but would like to stay in the tournament.
  • Max of 2 half-point byes can be requested in this tournament.
  • Round 1-2 byes must be requested 15 minutes prior to the round start time.
  • Round 3-4 byes must be requested before the start of Round 1. Round 4 bye is irrevocable to prevent prize-fund manipulations.
  • Late registrations will receive a 0.5 bye for any missed round, up to a total of 2 rounds.
     

4. Prize Fund --  $1000 based on 60 paid entries 

  2000+ 1600-1999 1200-1599 u1200
1st Place $200 $120 $80 $55
2nd Place $120 $80 $70 $45
3rd Place $80 $60 $50 $40
  • Please allow 2-3 weeks for processing prize checks.
  • Per IRS rules anyone with a cumulative $600+ prizes in any calendar year will need to fill out a W9 and Mechanics' Institute will be providing a 1099 form. 

 

5. Registration:

6. 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-chess
     

7. Tournament Rules

  • Standard US Chess rules apply.
  • Forfeit time is 40 minutes.

8. FAQ

  • What do the time controls mean?
    Time controls tell you how much time you have for each game.
    G40;d5 means game in 40 minutes with a 5-second delay on each move. This means you get 40 minutes, your opponent gets 40 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 4SS before the time control means it is a Swiss System tournament with four rounds, or four games, that a player can play in the tournament. The tournaments are never elimination, so win or lose, you can stay in the tournament. 

 

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.

Prize Winners: 

  Tournament Name: 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament  
    Date: Aug 3, 2024      
                 
    Pay out % $1,000 100%
based on 60 paid entries
      
   
Actual Payout
 $1,317 132% 79 paid entries      
                 
  2000+ 1600-1999 1200-1599 u1200
  Projected Actual Projected Actual Projected Actual Projected Actual
1st Place $200 $263 $120 $158 $80 $105 $55 $72
2nd Place $120 $158 $80 $105 $70 $92 $45 $59
3rd Place $80 $105 $60 $79 $50 $66 $40 $53

 

Prizes. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: 2000+

# Name Cash Prize credited to pool
5 Patrick Peiju Liu (4.0/2229) 263.00 1st Place: $263
4 Sebastian Suarez (3.0/2230) 90.75 2nd Place: $258;
3rd Place: $105;
4-way split of $363: $90.75 each
6 Arun Dixit (3.0/2221) 90.75
7 Kanwar Sethi Jr (3.0/2041) 90.75
11 Zhuoyuan Wu (3.0/1997) 90.75

 

Prizes. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: 1600-1999

# Name Cash Prize credited to pool
2 Kanishk Jain (3.5/1925) 131.50 1st Place: $158;
2nd Place: $105;
2-way split of $263: $131.50 each
4 Cailen J Melville (3.5/1848) 131.50
1 Jeremy Da Cawthon (3.0/1999) 26.33 3rd Place: $79;
3-way split: $26.33 each
6 Advik Garg (3.0/1749) 26.33
9 Thomas Gu (3.0/1700) 26.33

 

Prizes. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: 1200-1599

# Name Cash Prize credited to pool
5 Pranit N Pandhare (3.5/1370) 98.50 1st Place: $105;
2nd Place: $92;
2-way split of $197: $98.50 each
18 Olivia Xu (3.5/1038) 98.50
3 Sohan Zaveri (3.0/1457) 22.00 3rd Place: $66;
3-way split: $22 each
12 Arjuns Navaneetha (3.0/1160) 22.00
13 Varad Yatin Korde (3.0/1149) 22.00

 

Prizes. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: u1200

# Name Cash Prize credited to pool
1 Isaac Mays-Smith (4.0/1165) 71.00 1st Place: $71
2 Abhyuday B Khodpe (3.0/1136) 36.33 2nd Place: $58;
3rd Place: $51;
3-way split: $109: $36.33 each
4 Merlin Et Mackley (3.0/962) 36.33
5 Brody Chambers (3.0/934) 36.33
Standings: 

Final Standings 

 

SwissSys Report: 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament

SwissSys Standings. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: 2000+

# Name ID Rating Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Patrick Peiju Liu 16667410 2229   W24 W12 W8 W4 4.0 263.00
2 Sebastian Suarez 16875347 2230   W17 L8 W19 W9 3.0 90.75
3 Arun Dixit 14607904 2221   W19 L14 W12 W15 3.0 90.75
4 Kanwar Sethi Jr 16874098 2041   W20 W13 W14 L1 3.0 90.75
5 Zhuoyuan Wu 16772836 1997   W18 L15 W13 W14 3.0 90.75
6 Jimmy Heiserman 12799690 2317   L8 D17 W22 W18 2.5  
7 Evan Ai 14780703 2307   W16 L11 W20 D8 2.5  
8 Liam Liu 30390852 1966   W6 W2 L1 D7 2.5  
9 Roger Chris Smith 14437543 1933   H--- X21 W15 L2 2.5  
10 Zee Chin 16965808 2007   L12 W24 D18 D17 2.0  
11 Yuvraj Si Sawhney 17095004 1976   W21 W7 U--- U--- 2.0  
12 Ansh Shrivastava 30136879 1849   W10 L1 L3 W20 2.0  
13 Tapas Aara Natraj 17303765 1848   W22 L4 L5 W19 2.0  
14 Andrew Zou 30100762 1839   W23 W3 L4 L5 2.0  
15 Marlon Rigel 30206555 1815   B--- W5 L9 L3 2.0  
16 Jenny Qi 17050786 1949   L7 L19 D17 B--- 1.5  
17 Yashas Patil 16010271 1933   L2 D6 D16 D10 1.5  
18 Swagatha Selvam 16203181 1839   L5 B--- D10 L6 1.5  
19 Xavier Enr Negron 14909287 1888   L3 W16 L2 L13 1.0  
20 Henry Lien 15156603 1854   L4 W22 L7 L12 1.0  
21 Daniel Cremisi 14543654 2403   L11 F9 U--- U--- 0.0  
22 Michael Da Cruz 12554298 2000   L13 L20 L6 U--- 0.0  
23 James E Jones 10168350 2000   L14 U--- U--- U--- 0.0  
24 Jayden David Lee 30137668 1929   L1 L10 U--- U--- 0.0  

SwissSys Standings. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: 1600-1999

# Name ID Rating Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Kanishk Jain 16575412 1925   W12 W8 W10 D3 3.5 131.50
2 Cailen J Melville 14006141 1848   W13 D11 W7 W6 3.5 131.50
3 Jeremy Da Cawthon 15038608 1999   W21 D7 W9 D1 3.0 26.33
4 Advik Garg 16429697 1749   W15 L9 W13 W12 3.0 26.33
5 Thomas Gu 17005685 1700   L17 W15 W19 W10 3.0 26.33
6 Frederic Dutter 12343420 1904   H--- W14 W11 L2 2.5  
7 Sriadity Pendyala 16681146 1725   W20 D3 L2 W19 2.5  
8 Akas Anumalasetty 16458694 1714   W16 L1 W14 D9 2.5  
9 Andrew Ballantyne 17079795 1612   W18 W4 L3 D8 2.5  
10 Zeno Kalonaris 16307134 1785   W19 W17 L1 L5 2.0  
11 Jeff C Andersen 11296106 1624   W22 D2 L6 H--- 2.0  
12 Vidyuth Harish 16094497 1591   L1 W16 W17 L4 2.0  
13 John Chan 12561007 1556   L2 W18 L4 W20 2.0  
14 Ishaan Jain 30037150 1384   B--- L6 L8 W21 2.0  
15 Vedant Verma 16994832 1524   L4 L5 W21 D17 1.5  
16 Tingxuan Liu 17234081 1492 LIU L8 L12 D20 W22 1.5  
17 Eli Seidel 17241710 1486   W5 L10 L12 D15 1.5  
18 Tingshun Liu 30055687 1451 LIU L9 L13 D22 B--- 1.5  
19 Nathan Li 30949611 1533   L10 W22 L5 L7 1.0  
20 Neal Sundar 17307025 1523   L7 D21 D16 L13 1.0  
21 Ces Tamondong Jr 12439091 1600   L3 D20 L15 L14 0.5  
22 Sudhiksha Bankuru 17196617 1463   L11 L19 D18 L16 0.5  

SwissSys Standings. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: 1200-1599

# Name ID Rating Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Pranit N Pandhare 16537941 1370   W16 W12 W4 D2 3.5 98.50
2 Olivia Xu 31352797 1038   W10 W11 W5 D1 3.5 98.50
3 Sohan Zaveri 30291475 1457   L4 W16 W10 W12 3.0 22.00
4 Arjuns Navaneetha 30250735 1160   W3 W15 L1 W11 3.0 22.00
5 Varad Yatin Korde 30095270 1149   W13 W9 L2 W8 3.0 22.00
6 Derek G Lin 31804223 1332   D17 L7 W19 W15 2.5  
7 Kaio Deeter 31951986 unr.   H--- W6 L8 W14 2.5  
8 Samuel Agdamag 14874734 1467   L11 W17 W7 L5 2.0  
9 Joylin Li 30158030 1253   W18 L5 L11 W16 2.0  
10 Surya Raghav 30516469 1228   L2 W13 L3 W17 2.0  
11 Rikitha Selvam 30089086 1164   W8 L2 W9 L4 2.0  
12 Elena Hingyi Pang 30492712 1070   W14 L1 W15 L3 2.0  
13 Youcheng Ding 31719768 1387   L5 L10 D17 W18 1.5  
14 Shreya Munjal 16293311 1322 MUNJAL L12 D19 W18 L7 1.5  
15 Albert Mart Starr 12844781 1500   W19 L4 L12 L6 1.0  
16 Arav Munjal 16640722 1147 MUNJAL L1 L3 B--- L9 1.0  
17 Shoaib Ahmed 30516458 1106   D6 L8 D13 L10 1.0  
18 Renate Otterbach 14565208 1066   L9 B--- L14 L13 1.0  
19 David Siegel 12595160 1178   L15 D14 L6 U--- 0.5  

SwissSys Standings. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: u1200

# Name ID Rating Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Isaac Mays-Smith 30338290 1165   W13 W8 W3 W4 4.0 71.00
2 Abhyuday B Khodpe 30507606 1136   L9 W14 W6 W7 3.0 36.33
3 Merlin Et Mackley 31277598 962   W11 W9 L1 W8 3.0 36.33
4 Brody Chambers 30492645 934   X14 W10 W5 L1 3.0 36.33
5 Jayden I Endicott 31715915 912   W16 D6 L4 W10 2.5  
6 Preston Le 31435022 unr. LE W12 D5 L2 W13 2.5  
7 Neeraj Rao 30789296 1007   L10 W13 W9 L2 2.0  
8 Anthony Pa Carion 31307134 835   W15 L1 W11 L3 2.0  
9 Enming Zhang 31088736 754   W2 L3 L7 B--- 2.0  
10 S Paleologopoulos 30887540 596   W7 L4 W12 L5 2.0  
11 Neil Khadilkar 31940445 443   L3 B--- L8 W12 2.0  
12 Alex Haoxuan Pan 31493307 869   L6 W15 L10 L11 1.0  
13 Andrew Yu 31364087 756   L1 L7 W15 L6 1.0  
14 Nivaan Manwatkar 31721988 336   F4 L2 B--- L15 1.0  
15 Alexander Le 31974898 unr. LE L8 L12 L13 W14 1.0  
16 Kaio Deeter 31951986 unr.   L5 U--- U--- U--- 0.0  



  

SwissSys Report: 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament

SwissSys Standings. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: 2000+

# Name ID Rating Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total
1 William Donaldson 10270294 2406           0.0
2 Daniel Cremisi 14543654 2403           0.0
3 Jimmy Heiserman 12799690 2317           0.0
4 Evan Ai 14780703 2307           0.0
5 Sebastian Suarez 16875347 2230           0.0
6 Patrick Peiju Liu 16667410 2229           0.0
7 Kanwar Sethi Jr 16874098 2041           0.0
8 Zee Chin 16965808 2007           0.0
9 Michael Da Cruz 12554298 2000           0.0
10 James E Jones 10168350 2000           0.0
11 Zhuoyuan Wu 16772836 1997           0.0
12 Yuvraj Si Sawhney 17095004 1976           0.0
13 Liam Liu 30390852 1966           0.0
14 Jenny Qi 17050786 1949           0.0
15 Yashas Patil 16010271 1933           0.0
16 Roger Chris Smith 14437543 1933           0.0
17 Jayden David Lee 30137668 1929           0.0
18 Xavier Enr Negron 14909287 1888           0.0
19 Henry Lien 15156603 1854           0.0
20 Ansh Shrivastava 30136879 1849           0.0
21 Tapas Aara Natraj 17303765 1848           0.0
22 Andrew Zou 30100762 1839           0.0
23 Swagatha Selvam 16203181 1839           0.0
24 Marlon Rigel 30206555 1815           0.0

SwissSys Standings. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: 1600-1999

# Name ID Rating Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total
1 Jeremy Da Cawthon 15038608 1999           0.0
2 Kanishk Jain 16575412 1925           0.0
3 Frederic Dutter 12343420 1904   H---       0.0
4 Cailen J Melville 14006141 1848           0.0
5 Zeno Kalonaris 16307134 1785           0.0
6 Advik Garg 16429697 1749           0.0
7 Sriadity Pendyala 16681146 1725           0.0
8 Akas Anumalasetty 16458694 1714           0.0
9 Thomas Gu 17005685 1700           0.0
10 Jeff C Andersen 11296106 1624         H--- 0.0
11 Andrew Ballantyne 17079795 1612           0.0
12 Ces Tamondong Jr 12439091 1600           0.0
13 Vidyuth Harish 16094497 1591           0.0
14 John Chan 12561007 1556           0.0
15 Nathan Li 30949611 1533           0.0
16 Vedant Verma 16994832 1524           0.0
17 Neal Sundar 17307025 1523           0.0
18 Tingxuan Liu 17234081 1492 LIU         0.0
19 Eli Seidel 17241710 1486           0.0
20 Sudhiksha Bankuru 17196617 1463           0.0
21 Tingshun Liu 30055687 1451 LIU         0.0
22 Ishaan Jain 30037150 1384           0.0

SwissSys Standings. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: 1200-1599

# Name ID Rating Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total
1 Albert Mart Starr 12844781 1500           0.0
2 Samuel Agdamag 14874734 1467           0.0
3 Sohan Zaveri 30291475 1457           0.0
4 Youcheng Ding 31719768 1387           0.0
5 Pranit N Pandhare 16537941 1370           0.0
6 Derek G Lin 31804223 1332           0.0
7 Shreya Munjal 16293311 1322 MUNJAL         0.0
8 Joylin Li 30158030 1253           0.0
9 Surya Raghav 30516469 1228           0.0
10 David Siegel 12595160 1178           0.0
11 Rikitha Selvam 30089086 1164           0.0
12 Arjuns Navaneetha 30250735 1160           0.0
13 Varad Yatin Korde 30095270 1149           0.0
14 Arav Munjal 16640722 1147 MUNJAL         0.0
15 Shoaib Ahmed 30516458 1106           0.0
16 Elena Hingyi Pang 30492712 1070           0.0
17 Renate Otterbach 14565208 1066           0.0
18 Olivia Xu 31352797 1038           0.0

SwissSys Standings. 1st Grefe Memorial Tournament: u1200

# Name ID Rating Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total
1 Isaac Mays-Smith 30338290 1165           0.0
2 Abhyuday B Khodpe 30507606 1136           0.0
3 Neeraj Rao 30789296 1007           0.0
4 Merlin Et Mackley 31277598 962           0.0
5 Brody Chambers 30492645 934           0.0
6 Jayden I Endicott 31715915 912           0.0
7 Alex Haoxuan Pan 31493307 869           0.0
8 Anthony Pa Carion 31307134 835           0.0
9 Andrew Yu 31364087 756           0.0
10 Enming Zhang 31088736 754           0.0
11 S Paleologopoulos 30887540 596           0.0
12 Neil Khadilkar 31940445 443           0.0
13 Nivaan Manwatkar 31721988 336           0.0
14 Kaio Deeter 31951986 unr.           0.0
15 Preston Le 31435022 unr. LE         0.0
16 Alexander Le 31974898 unr. LE         0.0
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