Archived Tournament

23rd JJ Dolan Memorial Tournament

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Info

  • Date: Sat, Aug 23 , 2025
  • Eligibility: Open to Everyone!
  • Rating: USCF
  • Location: Mechanics' Institute, 4th Floor, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 95219
  • Capacity: 80

Registration

  • Online Registration Open Until: Saturday, August 23: 9:30 am
  • Onsite Registration: 9:30-9:45am
  • Entry fee for Mechanics' Institute Members: $40
    • Play-up fee: $10
  • Entry fee for Non-Members: $50
    • Play-up fee: $15
  • Late fee: $10
  • $5 admin fee for all cancellations & refunds.
  • Two ways to check your entries:
    • Check the live entries on the Jumbula page.
    • Check the processed entries here a day before the event.
  • Please note our late fee may be in effect and is usually added 24 hours before the start of a tournament in case capacity reaches 90%.

Tournament Format

  • Tournament Format: Swiss System
  • Total Rounds: 4
  • Time control: 40 min basetime + 5 second delay
  • Round Times: 8/23 10:00am 12:00pm 2:00pm 4:00pm
  • Sections: 2000+ 1600-1999 Under1600
  • Play-up rule:
    • Players must have an 1800 USCF regular supplemental or actual rating to be eligible to play up to the 2000+ section;
    • Players must have a 1400 USCF regular supplemental or actual rating to be eligible to play up to the 1600-1999 section.
  • Pairings are based on the Aug 2025 regular supplemental US Chess rating.

Prize Fund

  • 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:

    • $1000 based on 60 paid entries
    • Actual Payout: $1117 based on 67 paid entries (112% payout)
  2000+ 1600-1999 u1600
  Projected Actual Projected Actual Projected Actual
1st Place 200 $223 150 $168 100 $112
2nd Place 150 $168 100 $112 85 $95
3rd Place 80 $89 70 $78 65 $73

 

Prizes: 23rd JJ Dolan Memorial Tournament

# Name Cash Prize credited to pool Section
1 Daniel Cremisi (4.0/2349) 223.00 1st Place: $223 2000+
2 Kanwar Sethi (3.0/2111) 85.66 2nd Place: $168;
3rd Place: $89;
3-way split of $277: $85.66 each
6 Rehaan Malhotra (3.0/1987) 85.66
9 Daniel Videna (3.0/1926) 85.66
3 Yonathan Admassu (4.0/1781) 168.00 1st Place: $168 1600-1999
2 Xiaoshan Chen (3.0/1827) 47.50 2nd Place: $112;
3rd Place: $78;
4-way split of $190: $47.50 each
16 Richard Jiang (3.0/1599) 47.50
20 Samidh Saxena (3.0/1538) 47.50
26 Pranav Db (3.0/1325) 47.50
6 Aneesh Banerjee (4.0/1302) 112.00 1st Place: $112 u1600
4 Laksh Sharma (3.5/1389) 95.00 2nd Place: $95
9 Eugenio Ferrari (3.0/1278) 24.33 3rd Place: $73;
3-way split: $24.33 each
10 David Vayntrub (3.0/1245) 24.33
23 Maksym Tsebrii (3.0/0) 24.33

 

 

Byes

  • Byes are available for players in any round in case they can't participate but would like to stay in the tournament.
  • Byes can be requested up to 15 minutes prior to the round start time.
  • Last round bye must be requested by the start of Round 1.
  • Late registrations will receive a 0.5 bye for any missed round, up to a total of 2 rounds.

Eligibility

Tournament Rules

  • 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 eliminated, so win or lose, you can stay in the tournament. 
  • 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.

 

SwissSys Report: 23rd JJ Dolan Memorial Tournament

SwissSys Standings. 23rd JJ Dolan Memorial Tournament: 2000+

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Daniel Cremisi 14543654 2349 W6 W11 W2 W3 4.0 223.00
2 Kanwar Sethi 16874098 2111 W7 W8 L1 W6 3.0 85.67
3 Rehaan Malhotra 30118209 1987 W12 W13 W9 L1 3.0 85.67
4 Daniel Videna 17066495 1926 D13 D9 W12 W8 3.0 85.67
5 Edward Lewis 12601629 1922 D9 L6 W13 W11 2.5  
6 Easwar Gnana Hari Sekar 16418483 1965 L1 W5 W10 L2 2.0  
7 Zee Chin 16965808 1950 L2 L10 B--- W12 2.0  
8 Daniel Perlov 16465203 1791 B--- L2 W11 L4 2.0  
9 WFM Jenny Qi 17050786 2057 D5 D4 L3 D10 1.5  
10 Sudeep Suresh 17251915 1899 F11 W7 L6 D9 1.5  
11 Tapas Natraj 17303765 2004 X10 L1 L8 L5 1.0  
12 Dan Sevall 12811060 1804 L3 B--- L4 L7 1.0  
13 Sanat Singhal 15580756 2068 D4 L3 L5 U--- 0.5  

SwissSys Standings. 23rd JJ Dolan Memorial Tournament: 1600-1999

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Yonathan Admassu 15323127 1781 W8 W9 W10 W5 4.0 168.00
2 Xiaoshan Chen 31974206 1827 D7 W16 W11 D3 3.0 47.50
3 Richard Jiang 30505064 1599 W22 H--- W20 D2 3.0 47.50
4 Samidh Saxena 32528102 1538 L6 B--- W25 W15 3.0 47.50
5 Pranav Db 30518186 1325 B--- W17 W15 L1 3.0 47.50
6 Sarvagnya Brahmanapally 16466227 1688 W4 L10 D9 W19 2.5  
7 Max Meacham 32316130 1611 D2 D23 D19 W17 2.5  
8 Preron Chakrabarty 30136237 1608 L1 W24 W22 D10 2.5  
9 Surya Raghav 30516469 1590 W12 L1 D6 W20 2.5  
10 Alexandra Zhuge 30510499 1518 W24 W6 L1 D8 2.5  
11 Pranav Balasubramanian 16252112 1484 D13 W14 L2 W18 2.5  
12 Eli Seidel 17241710 1701 L9 D18 D14 W25 2.0  
13 Austin Chen 31293249 1669 D11 L20 D16 W26 2.0  
14 Ansh Shenvi Priolkar 30065668 1660 D20 L11 D12 W24 2.0  
15 Dev Isak Kosuri 31395538 1635 B--- W26 L5 L4 2.0  
16 Varun Turaga 31603312 1580 H--- L2 D13 W22 2.0  
17 Fredrick Dutter 12343420 1900 H--- L5 W26 L7 1.5  
18 Neal Sundar 17307025 1666 L26 D12 W21 L11 1.5  
19 Calvin Hou 31435398 1560 D23 D25 D7 L6 1.5  
20 Aiden Liao 17075676 1405 D14 W13 L3 L9 1.5  
21 Arnav Mythil 30444684 1369 D25 L22 L18 B--- 1.5  
22 John Chan 12561007 1708 L3 W21 L8 L16 1.0  
23 Zeno Kalonaris 16307134 1696 D19 D7 U--- U--- 1.0  
24 Asher Luo 30747710 1675 L10 L8 B--- L14 1.0  
25 Rayna Yan 30157975 1659 D21 D19 L4 L12 1.0  
26 Neeraj Rao 30789296 1411 W18 L15 L17 L13 1.0  

SwissSys Standings. 23rd JJ Dolan Memorial Tournament: u1600

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Aneesh Banerjee 31464834 1302 W23 W15 W5 W4 4.0 112.00
2 Laksh Sharma 30644675 1389 W14 D20 W8 W7 3.5 95.00
3 Eugenio Ferrari 31948031 1278 L5 W24 W25 W16 3.0 24.33
4 David Vayntrub 15326038 1245 W25 W6 W16 L1 3.0 24.33
5 Maksym Tsebrii 32509962 unr. W3 W18 L1 W12 3.0 24.33
6 Albert Starr 12844781 1500 W27 L4 D21 W20 2.5  
7 John Xia 30747333 1493 D10 W9 W20 L2 2.5  
8 Max Snyder 31626474 1425 D13 W11 L2 W21 2.5  
9 Zane Chu 16983078 1146 D11 L7 W23 W17 2.5  
10 Justin Rezende 31819875 1076 D7 D13 D17 W18 2.5  
11 Jesse Yoder 32538315 unr. D9 L8 W22 W19 2.5  
12 Elaine Xue 30959879 1278 W22 L16 W14 L5 2.0  
13 Zihe Zhao 31705698 1039 D8 D10 D18 H--- 2.0  
14 Kian Entezari 32493410 1006 L2 W26 L12 W25 2.0  
15 Alex Qian 31690132 951 W17 L1 L19 W26 2.0  
16 Meenakshi Sundaram Sekar 32544044 unr. W19 W12 L4 L3 2.0  
17 Brenda Boudreaux 12626539 1369 L15 W23 D10 L9 1.5  
18 Aaron Cheng 30523511 1281 W24 L5 D13 L10 1.5  
19 Shaikat Hossain 17207363 1231 L16 D22 W15 L11 1.5  
20 Jonathan Dai 31493104 1183 W26 D2 L7 L6 1.5  
21 Max Sills 12766996 1155 H--- H--- D6 L8 1.5  
22 Max Molofsky 17000254 258 L12 D19 L11 W24 1.5  
23 Wen Larson 32181097 560 L1 L17 L9 W27 1.0  
24 Arjun Pandian 17316976 542 L18 L3 B--- L22 1.0  
25 Justin Yee 30102961 unr. L4 W27 L3 L14 1.0  
26 Edoardo Ferrari   unr. L20 L14 W27 L15 1.0  
27 Timraj Grewal 32493436 1121 L6 L25 L26 L23 0.0  

 

Pairings

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