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Archived Tournament

2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

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Top games are broadcasted on Chess.com with a 15-minute delay.
 

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.

Rounds

  • Download Round 1 as PGN Watch Replay of Round 1
  • Download Round 2 as PGN Watch Replay of Round 2
  • Download Round 3 as PGN Watch Replay of Round 3

Rounds are starting on time at Mechanics' so be sure to be on time. Clocks will not be delayed in starting for any reason.

For pgn files and to replay the games via a pgn viewer, please see above.

Round 1 games in pdf.

Round 2 games in pdf.

Round 3 games in pdf.

Standings

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon: 2000+ (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Total
1 Theodore James Coyne 13848228 2239 W17 W10 W7         3.0
2 IM Elliott Winslow 10363365 2200 W11 W14 D4         2.5
3 WFM Uyanga Byambaa 14271351 2084 D18 W26 W13         2.5
4 Andrew Zavgorodniy 32143889 1992 W27 W23 D2         2.5
5 Jimmy Heiserman 12799690 2291 H--- D9 W19         2.0
6 CM Pranav Senthilkumar 14020007 2227 H--- W15 D8         2.0
7 Christophe Bambou 12734479 2116 W12 W16 L1         2.0
8 Christopher Timothy Atkeson 17080462 2062 H--- W21 D6         2.0
9 Kyle Chan 30063365 1989 H--- D5 W18         2.0
10 Michael Walder 10345120 1979 W20 L1 W22         2.0
11 Phineas Horowitz 14209057 1923 L2 W27 W20         2.0
12 Daniel Sevall 12811060 1922 L7 W24 W23         2.0
13 Sudarshan Seshadri 12906250 2022 W19 H--- L3       H--- 1.5
14 Edward Lew 12601629 1967 W22 L2 D16         1.5
15 Kristian Clemens 13901075 1941 H--- L6 W26   H--- H---   1.5
16 Roger Christopher Smith 14437543 1851 W24 L7 D14         1.5
17 Hector Viadiu 12586903 1926 L1 L20 W27         1.0
18 Neil Kulkar 16246077 1920 D3 H--- L9         1.0
19 Stephen Parsons 16566932 1861 L13 W25 L5         1.0
20 Yonathan Admassu 15323127 1835 L10 W17 L11         1.0
21 Clarence Jones 14950296 1834 H--- L8 D24         1.0
22 Robert Crompton 31442886 1831 L14 B--- L10         1.0
23 Daniel Robert Per 16465203 1822 W25 L4 L12         1.0
24 Patrick M McCollum 11040519 2000 L16 L12 D21         0.5
25 Raghu Rajaram 12698822 1947 L23 L19 H---         0.5
26 Mikhail Chernobilskiy 12878856 1876 H--- L3 L15         0.5
27 Marlon Rigel 30206555 1847 L4 L11 L17         0.0

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon: 1600-1999 (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Total
1 Hoa Long Tam 16919862 1698 W20 W21 W11         3.0
2 William Gray 13217831 1921 W26 W10 H---         2.5
3 Sreyshthaa Krishnan 30452740 1783 W18 W16 D4         2.5
4 Na Chea 15147161 1654 W12 W6 D3         2.5
5 John Boyer 16865157 1636 W24 W8 H--- H--- H---     2.5
6 Lucas Lamouroux 31209571 1943 W17 L4 W15         2.0
7 Frederic Dutter 12343420 1900 H--- D19 W21         2.0
8 Aron Sarmasi 32263284 1857 W13 L5 W19         2.0
9 Phil Ploquin 12535882 1681 W22 L11 W16         2.0
10 Carl Anthony Pickering 30689170 1652 W23 L2 W17         2.0
11 David Siegel 12595160 1562 W25 W9 L1         2.0
12 Samuel Agdamag 14874734 1492 L4 W18 W23         2.0
13 Bennett McCutcheon 30503085 1548 L8 W22 H---   H---     1.5
14 Sacha Marino Sloan 32301287 1459 L16 B--- H---         1.5
15 Dahlia Quinn 30654447 1442 H--- W26 L6         1.5
16 Isaac S Mays-Smith 30338290 1651 W14 L3 L9 H---       1.0
17 Charlie Schaezlein 31629140 1609 L6 W20 L10         1.0
18 Sawyer Stults 31608516 1540 L3 L12 W24         1.0
19 Tao Ni 30260481 1527 H--- D7 L8         1.0
20 Matthew S Klahn 12627779 1522 L1 L17 W26         1.0
21 Maksym Tsebrii 32509962 1405 B--- L1 L7         1.0
22 Daniel J Sisti 12734121 1510 L9 L13 H--- H---       0.5
23 Joseph Karwat 16761266 1471 L10 H--- L12         0.5
24 Neeraj Rao 30789296 1430 L5 H--- L18         0.5
25 Mikhail Chernobilskiy 12878856 1876 L11 U--- U---         0.0
26 Nick, Jr Casares 10424364 1600 L2 L15 L20         0.0

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon: u1600 (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Total
1 Zachary Wickliffe 32140128 1449 W16 W17 D3         2.5
2 Dominic A Vazquez 30703139 1343 W19 W18 H---         2.5
3 Andrew Braithwaite 31237898 1311 W26 W6 D1         2.5
4 Eric Liu 12929670 1288 D22 W25 W11         2.5
5 Christian Brickhouse 30261226 1238 H--- W22 W13       H--- 2.5
6 John Chan 12561007 1500 W15 L3 X17         2.0
7 Oliver Peter Nyst 31407524 1385 L18 W19 W21         2.0
8 John Little 31626985 1383 L11 W23 W18 H---       2.0
9 Calvin Django Dees 30307126 1296 H--- W24 D10         2.0
10 Ummon Karpe 12932259 1143 H--- W12 D9         2.0
11 Dylan Kwong 16406714 1137 W8 W14 L4         2.0
12 Richard Hack 12796129 1500 H--- L10 W24         1.5
13 Alex Langrog 12636476 1475 H--- X--- L5       H--- 1.5
14 Brett Fisher 31540384 1385 W23 L11 D15       H--- 1.5
15 Thu Anh Le 17248797 1269 L6 W26 D14         1.5
16 Shaikat Hossa 17207363 1196 L1 H--- W22         1.5
17 William Fitzgerald 17048414 1341 W21 L1 F6         1.0
18 Mason Tobias 32440186 1152 W7 L2 L8         1.0
19 Paul Blum 12748433 1073 L2 L7 W25         1.0
20 Kate Canessa 14102056 476 H--- H--- U---         1.0
21 Robert Elmendorf 32553826 unr. L17 B--- L7         1.0
22 Albert Martin Starr 12844781 1500 D4 L5 L16         0.5
23 Danny Cao 16939797 1187 L14 L8 H--- H--- H--- U---   0.5
24 Zachary Stevens 14460843 1048 H--- L9 L12         0.5
25 Wallace Witkowski 12674345 927 H--- L4 L19         0.5
26 Alex Wisnewski 32080306 unr. L3 L15 H--- H---       0.5

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon: Extra Rated (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Total Prize
1 Alex Langrog 12636476 1475 U--- W6 U--- 1.0  
2 Maksym Tsebrii 32509962 1405 W7 U--- U--- 1.0  
3 David R Olson 13913131 1400 U--- U--- W8 1.0  
4 Gregori Lorenzo Jenkins 32275769 unr. U--- U--- W5 1.0  
5 John Chan 12561007 1500 U--- U--- L4 0.0  
6 Sacha Marino Sloan 32301287 1459 U--- L1 U--- 0.0  
7 Alexander Robins 31932004 1285 L2 U--- U--- 0.0  
8 Kate Canessa 14102056 476 U--- U--- L3 0.0  

 

Pairings

SwissSys Report: 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

SwissSys Report: 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

SwissSys Report: 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

SwissSys Report: 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

Pairings for Round 3. 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon: Extra Rated

Bd Res White Res Black
31 1 Gregori Lorenzo Jenkins (unr. - 0.0 ) 0 John Chan (1500 - 0.0 )
32 0 Kate Canessa ( 476 - 0.0 ) 1 David R Olson (1400 - 0.0 )

SwissSys Report: 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

SwissSys Report: 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

SwissSys Report: 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

SwissSys Report: 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon

Pairings for Round 3. 2025 Fall Tuesday Night Marathon: Extra Rated

Bd Res White Res Black
31 1 Gregori Lorenzo Jenkins (unr. - 0.0 ) 0 John Chan (1500 - 0.0 )
32 0 Kate Canessa ( 476 - 0.0 ) 1 David R Olson (1400 - 0.0 )