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Sizzling Summer Blitz

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Info

  • Date: Tue, Aug 26 , 2025
  • Eligibility: Open to Everyone!
  • Rating: USCF & FIDE
  • Location: Mechanics' Institute, 4th Floor; 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
  • Capacity: 80

Registration

  • Online Registration Open Until: Tuesday, August 26: 6:00 pm
  • Onsite Registration: 6:00-6:15pm
  • Entry fee for Mechanics' Institute Members: $20
    • Play-up fee: $10
  • Entry fee for Non-Members: $30
    • 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 site.
    • Check the processed entries here a day before the event.
  • Please note our late fee is now in effect and is added 24 hours before the start of a tournament in case capacity reaches 75%.

Tournament Format

  • Tournament Format: Swiss System
  • Total Rounds: 7
  • Time control: 3 min basetime + 2 sec increment
  • Round Times: 8/26 6:30pm and remaining rounds are on a rolling schedule
  • Sections: 1800+ U1800

Play-up "200-rating point rule":

  • Players must have an 1600 USCF regular supplemental or actual regular rating to be eligible to play up to the 1800+ 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 Aug 2025 regular supplemental regular US Chess rating.

The games affect FIDE and US Chess Blitz ratings.

 

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 must fill out a W-9; the Mechanics' Institute will also provide a 1099 form. 

Prize Fund:

  • $540 based on 60 paid entries
  • Actual Payout:$405 based on 45 fully paid entries.
  1800+ U1800
  Projected Actual Projected Actual
1st Place $120 $90 $80 $60
2nd Place $80 $60 $60 $45
3rd Place $60 $45 $50 $38
Best u1800 $50 $38    
Best u1300     $40 $30

Prizes: 2025 Sizzling Summer Blitz

# Name Cash Prize credited to pool Section
1 GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez (6.5/2618) 75.00 1st Place: $90;
2nd Place: $60;
2-way split of $150: $75 each		 1800+
3 Daniel Cremisi (6.5/2349) 75.00
19 Daniel Sevall (5.0/1804) 45.00 3rd Place: $45
20 Breakwell Loyalka (3.5/1729) 38.00 Best u1800: $38
2 Robert E Berry (6.5/1692) 60.00 1st Place: $60 u1800
1 Sriaditya Pendyala (6.0/1696) 45.00 2nd Place: $45
31 Aaron Ingber (5.0/0) 15.00 Best u1300: $30;
2-way split: $15 each
15 Fadi Arodaki (5.0/1255) 15.00
5 Hoa Long Tam (5.0/1605) 12.66 3rd Place: $38;
3-way split: $12.66 each
7 Satyakam Dash (5.0/1505) 12.66
8 David Siegel (5.0/1473) 12.66

 

 

Byes

  • Maximum three half-point byes are available.
  • Must be requested prior to the tournament start.

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
  • All players must have a FIDE ID as well. If you don't have one, we'll reach out!

Tournament Rules

  • What do the time controls mean?
    Time controls tell you how much time you have for each game.
    G/3+2 means game in 3 minutes with a 2-second increment with each move. This means you get 3 minutes, your opponent gets 3 minutes, and at each move you get 2 extra seconds added to your clock. 
  • How many games/rounds?
    The event is a 7-round Swiss. Win or lose, players are expected to play in all rounds, unless they choose to withdraw.
  • We provide clocks and set it up for players.
  • Games will be US Chess blitz and FIDE blitz-rated.

Standings

  • Processed entries are coming 1 day before the event starts.
  • Final standings will be posted after the event is finished.

 

SwissSys Report: 2025 Sizzling Summer Blitz

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Sizzling Summer Blitz: Open

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Total Prize
1 GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez 14958890 2618 W8 W10 D2 W6 W5 W4 W7 6.5 75.00
2 Daniel Cremisi 14543654 2349 W12 W14 D1 W7 W4 W3 W8 6.5 75.00
3 Daniel Sevall 12811060 1804 L7 W15 W16 W12 W8 L2 W6 5.0 45.00
4 IM Vladimir Mezentsev 12650876 2408 W9 W11 W6 D5 L2 L1 W13 4.5  
5 Aryan Balyan 15273590 2259 W13 W19 W10 D4 L1 L8 W12 4.5  
6 Aadit Bhatia 16689603 2243 W15 W7 L4 L1 W14 W10 L3 4.0  
7 John Archibald 15110208 2093 W3 L6 W13 L2 W11 W17 L1 4.0  
8 Sanat Singhal 15580756 2068 L1 W16 W14 W19 L3 W5 L2 4.0  
9 Breakwell Loyalka 31569521 1729 L4 W20 D19 L14 L13 W18 W10 3.5 38.00
10 Donald F Chandler 11050085 2238 W20 L1 L5 W13 W12 L6 L9 3.0  
11 Dmitry Vayntrub 12911242 2220 W16 L4 L12 W15 L7 L13 W17 3.0  
12 Abhinav Chakravarthi Ramaswamy 13755673 2064 L2 W17 W11 L3 L10 W15 L5 3.0  
13 WFM Jenny Qi 17050786 2057 L5 W18 L7 L10 W9 W11 L4 3.0  
14 IM Elliott Winslow 10363365 2200 W17 L2 L8 W9 L6 U--- U--- 2.0  
15 Steven Gaffagan 12542809 1944 L6 L3 W17 L11 W20 L12 L18 2.0  
16 Stephen Parsons 16566932 1917 L11 L8 L3 W20 L17 B--- U--- 2.0  
17 Phineas F Horowitz 14209057 1897 L14 L12 L15 W18 W16 L7 L11 2.0  
18 Marlon Rigel 30206555 1822 L19 L13 L20 L17 B--- L9 W15 2.0  
19 Manuel C Santos 12473831 2140 W18 L5 D9 L8 U--- U--- U--- 1.5  
20 Romulo Silvestre 16920915 1929 L10 L9 W18 L16 L15 U--- U--- 1.0  

SwissSys Standings. 2025 Sizzling Summer Blitz: Under1800

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Total Prize
1 Robert E Berry 12742576 1692 W13 W9 W4 W7 W2 D8 W5 6.5 60.00
2 Sriaditya Pendyala 16681146 1696 W20 W19 W25 W8 L1 W4 W12 6.0 45.00
3 Hoa Long Tam 16919862 1605 L15 W16 W30 W20 W12 L5 W17 5.0 12.67
4 Satyakam Dash 31420034 1505 W31 W23 L1 W16 W15 L2 W8 5.0 12.67
5 David Siegel 12595160 1473 W27 W29 L8 W28 W7 W3 L1 5.0 12.67
6 Fadi Arodaki 31279904 1255 F29 W27 L28 W29 W25 W23 W16 5.0 15.00
7 Aaron Ingber 32151075 unr. W12 W17 W19 L1 L5 W18 W15 5.0 15.00
8 Phil Ploquin 12535882 1668 W14 W15 W5 L2 W9 D1 L4 4.5  
9 Dominic A Vazquez 30703139 1395 W21 L1 W14 W23 L8 L15 W19 4.0  
10 Aneesh Banerjee 31464834 1302 L23 L14 W31 W30 L16 W21 W18 4.0  
11 Eric Liu 12929670 1285 L16 W31 L15 W14 L23 W24 W27 4.0  
12 Thu Anh Le 17248797 1273 L7 W26 W22 W25 L3 W13 L2 4.0  
13 David Vayntrub 15326038 1245 L1 W18 L16 W24 W19 L12 W23 4.0  
14 Arjun Patil 31332342 1224 L8 W10 L9 L11 W22 W26 W20 4.0  
15 Max Lober 30688691 1214 W3 L8 W11 W17 L4 W9 L7 4.0  
16 Ziqi Xu 32493391 unr. W11 L3 W13 L4 W10 W20 L6 4.0  
17 Matthew S Klahn 12627779 1522 W26 L7 W21 L15 L20 W28 L3 3.0  
18 William Fitzgerald 17048414 1341 L22 L13 W27 W21 W28 L7 L10 3.0  
19 Andrew Braithwaite 31237898 1288 W24 L2 L7 W22 L13 W29 L9 3.0  
20 Bowie Chen 32358809 1250 L2 W24 W29 L3 W17 L16 L14 3.0  
21 Raghuram Kakinada 15029831 727 L9 B--- L17 L18 X30 L10 W28 3.0  
22 Shane Davis 32212404 674 W18 L25 L12 L19 L14 B--- W29 3.0  
23 Sean Danganan 32500049 unr. W10 L4 W26 L9 W11 L6 L13 3.0  
24 Gregory Mar 32496058 unr. L19 L20 B--- L13 W26 L11 W31 3.0  
25 John Boyer 16865157 1636 X32 W22 L2 L12 L6 U--- U--- 2.0  
26 Lua Loyalka 31569531 1043 L17 L12 L23 W31 L24 L14 B--- 2.0  
27 Sidhant Chaliha 15259177 852 L5 L6 L18 B--- L29 W31 L11 2.0  
28 Ehsan Moharreri 31987156 unr. H--- H--- W6 L5 L18 L17 L21 2.0  
29 Nicholas Vardeh 32410093 unr. X6 L5 L20 L6 W27 L19 L22 2.0  
30 Shaikat Hossain 17207363 1231 H--- H--- L3 L10 F21 U--- U--- 1.0  
31 Paul Blum 12748433 912 L4 L11 L10 L26 B--- L27 L24 1.0  
32 Vinesh Jethva 30035667 1214 F25 U--- U--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0  

 

Pairings

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