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Mechanics' Institute Kids Swiss - Jan 2020 #1

Saturday, January 18, 2020

4 round swiss, USCF rated.

LOCATION:

Mechanics' Institute Chess Club
57 Post Street, San Franciscs, CA 94104

ONSITE REGISTRATION:

9:30am - 9:45am

ROUNDS:

10:00 am, and rolling schedule.

SECTIONS:

  • 700+
  • 400-699
  • Under 400 & Unrated players


BYES:

  • Max of byes: 2
  • Last round to request a bye: 2
  • Number of rounds in tourney: 4
  • Bye note: All bye requests after round 2 will be 0 point


PRIZES:

Trophies to top 5 finishers (including tie breaks), medals for all others.
Trophy ceremony at the end of tournament, right after last round finish.

FEE:

$35 entry fee
$10 play-up fee
$10 late fee
USCF membership required

*** Special Update - Brilliancy Prizes for Scholastic Players ***
We will be offering 2 monthly brilliancy prizes specificcally for scholastic players, to encourage them notating their games!
Players are encouraged to submit their games if they had any particuraly nice game, or tactic, or by the book opening, or nicely executed end game.
These can be games from any event in that month provided that it be a rated event and that there is a complete notation of the game.
The prizes will come in the form of choice of book from our in office chess library and we will publish the games in our newsletter with annotations by GM Nick de Firmian. If you would like to submit a game for consideration, please turn in the scoresheet to us and mark "brilliancy" on top of the coresheet, that way we know it is submitted for consideration. You may also send it in an email, please indicate Brilliancy Prize in the subject.
Games from any rated tournament at Mechanics' in January will count for the January prize. We will also be making reminder announcements at upcoming events.

 

Standings: 

SwissSys Standings. Scholastic Swiss: 700+

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 KIAN NAMIRANIAN 17232146 1026 W3 W4 D2 W7 3.5  
2 KEVIN SUN 16898540 758 W6 W5 D1 W3 3.5  
3 THOMAS GU 17005685 758 L1 B--- W4 L2 2.0  
4 SHELTON CAI 16851095 727 W7 L1 L3 W5 2.0  
5 ADITHYA CHITTA 16695036 669 B--- L2 D7 L4 1.5  
6 ETHAN TAM 17262476 unr. L2 W7 U--- U--- 1.0  
7 ANDREW BALLANTYNE 17079795 877 L4 L6 D5 L1 0.5  

SwissSys Standings. Scholastic Swiss: u400

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 WILLIAM FITZGERALD
17048414
unr. W5 W4 W2 D3 3.5  
2 GIMIGNANO SHAO 17229164 411 W8 W6 L1 W4 3.0  
3 ETHAN TAM 17262476 unr. H--- H--- W5 D1 2.5  
4 NATE BRADLEY 16694514 314 W9 L1 W7 L2 2.0  
5 SIMON LIM 15172651 359 L1 W9 L3 W6 2.0  
6 JASPER STIMMEL 17048278 218 W7 L2 W8 L5 2.0  
7 STANLEY FRAS RZAD 16947933 472 L6 W8 L4 W9 2.0  
8 CONALL THOM BLACK 17237054 105 L2 L7 L6 B--- 1.0  
9 TY OLIVEIRA 17196968 unr. L4 L5 B--- L7 1.0  
Location: 
Mechanics' Institute