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23rd Fink Memorial Tournament

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Info

  • Date: Sun, Feb 8 , 2026
  • Eligibility: Open to Everyone!
  • Rating: USCF
  • Location: Mechanics' Institute, 4th Floor, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
  • Capacity: 80

Registration

  • Online Registration Open Until: Sunday, February 8: 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 sec delay
  • Round Times: 2/8 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 Feb 2026 regular supplemental US Chess rating.

Prize Fund

1000 b/60

  • 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: $867 based on 52 paid entry -- 87% payout.
  2000+ 1600-1999 u1600
  Projected Actual Projected Actual Projected Actual
1st Place $200 $173 $150 $139 $100 $87
2nd Place $150 $130 $100 $87 $85 $74
3rd Place $80 $69 $70 $61 $65 $56

Prizes: 23rd AJ Fink Memorial Tournament

# Name Cash Prize credited to pool Section
1 Austin R Mei (4.0/2315) 173.00 1st Place: $173 2000+
2 Vladysl Shevkunov (3.0/2258) 99.50 2nd Place: $130;
3rd Place: $69;
2-way split of $199: $99.50 each
4 Abhishek Mallela (3.0/2120) 99.50
4 Jesse Ning Dill (3.5/1720) 108.50 1st Place: $130;
2nd Place: $87;
2-way split of $217: $108.50 each		 1600-1999
7 Wes Pereira (3.5/1678) 108.50
1 Liri ("gogo") Dancig-Perlman (2.5/1750) 10.16  3rd Place: $61;
6-way split: $10.16 each
3 Arnav Bhosale (2.5/1720) 10.16 
9 Aashv Rangamreddy (2.5/1631) 10.16 
10 Rayna Yan (2.5/1611) 10.16
11 Andrew X Yu (2.5/1566) 10.16 
14 Raymond Shao (2.5/1424) 10.16 
2 Rosalyn Chu (4.0/1314) 130.00 1st Place: $130 u1600
5 Cameron Lee Troy (3.0/1213) 29.60 2nd Place: $87;
3rd Place: $61;
5-way split of $148: $28.60 each
6 Ryan Banerjee (3.0/1154) 29.60
7 Zane Chu (3.0/1103) 29.60
9 Perry Cate (3.0/1073) 29.60
16 Anagha Gautham (3.0/745) 29.60

 

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 11.77 - Standings. 23rd AJ Fink Memorial Tournament: 2000+

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Austin R Mei 16090452 2315 W9 W12 W3 W2 4.0 173.00
2 Vladysl Shevkunov 15490096 2258 W7 W16 W4 L1 3.0 99.50
3 Abhishek Mallela 12888811 2120 W13 W6 L1 W5 3.0 99.50
4 Laurie Qiu 30582856 2162 W18 W15 L2 D6 2.5  
5 Tapas Aara Natraj 17303765 1953 D8 W9 W16 L3 2.5  
6 Colin Yi 16685250 1938 W14 L3 W11 D4 2.5  
7 Umesh Gopi 14976408 1913 L2 D17 W14 W13 2.5  
8 Sreyshthaa Krishnan 30452740 1870 D5 W18 W12 U--- 2.5  
9 Om Suthar 16851816 1925 L1 L5 W18 W16 2.0  
10 Olivia Xu 31352797 1832 H--- H--- W15 U--- 2.0  
11 Daniel Sevall 12811060 1816 L12 B--- L6 W17 2.0  
12 Hayden Brongersma 31240441 1928 W11 L1 L8 D15 1.5  
13 Beckett Spence 31980852 1877 L3 D14 W17 L7 1.5  
14 Mikhail Grigorev 30142525 1836 L6 D13 L7 W18 1.5  
15 Prero Chakrabarty 30136237 1802 B--- L4 L10 D12 1.5  
16 Adam Mercado 16571026 1969 W17 L2 L5 L9 1.0  
17 Eli Seidel 17241710 1874 L16 D7 L13 L11 0.5  
18 Naga Ab Ponnaluri 17010328 1887 L4 L8 L9 L14 0.0  

SwissSys 11.77 - Standings. 23rd AJ Fink Memorial Tournament: 1600-1999

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Jesse Ning Dill 30040722 1720 W16 D6 W10 W4 3.5 108.50
2 Wes Pereira 30599160 1678 W14 W8 D4 W6 3.5 108.50
3 Liri ("gogo") Dancig-Perlman 17151222 1750 L5 W13 W11 H--- 2.5 10.17
4 Arnav Bhosale 16925844 1720 W7 W11 D2 L1 2.5 10.17
5 Aashv Rangamreddy 30528417 1631 W3 D10 L6 W9 2.5 10.17
6 Rayna Yan 30157975 1611 W9 D1 W5 L2 2.5 10.17
7 Andrew X Yu 31681086 1566 L4 D12 W14 W10 2.5 10.17
8 Raymond Shao 30785440 1424 W15 L2 D9 W13 2.5 10.17
9 Russell Siegelman 12475098 1720 L6 W16 D8 L5 1.5  
10 Elena Hingyi Pang 30492712 1711 W13 D5 L1 L7 1.5  
11 Raghav Ramesh 16240742 1632 W12 L4 L3 D16 1.5  
12 Andrew Yu 31364087 1290 L11 D7 W15 U--- 1.5  
13 Ryan Pan 32395451 1517 L10 L3 W16 L8 1.0  
14 Michael Kvasov 30897279 1396 L2 D15 L7 H--- 1.0  
15 Austin Bo Chen 31293249 1689 L8 D14 L12 U--- 0.5  
16 Vik Markova-Raina 31664870 1536 L1 L9 L13 D11 0.5  

SwissSys 11.77 - Standings. 23rd AJ Fink Memorial Tournament: U1600

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Total Prize
1 Rosalyn Chu 30566652 1314 W14 W5 W10 W2 4.0 130.00
2 Cameron Lee Troy 30632621 1213 W18 W13 W6 L1 3.0 29.60
3 Ryan Banerjee 31919401 1154 W15 L6 W14 W11 3.0 29.60
4 Zane Chu 16983078 1103 L6 W18 W13 W10 3.0 29.60
5 Perry Cate 32758780 1073 W17 L1 W9 W8 3.0 29.60
6 Anagha Gautham 31484153 745 W4 W3 L2 W12 3.0 29.60
7 Albert Mart Starr 12844781 1523 L10 L12 W15 W14 2.0  
8 Keshav Raman 30692470 1234 L13 W16 W12 L5 2.0  
9 Nihar Shah 15130491 1216 W11 L10 L5 W17 2.0  
10 Krishna Chunduri 32365088 1055 W7 W9 L1 L4 2.0  
11 Rani Jaiswal 32758727 924 L9 W17 W16 L3 2.0  
12 Wesley Berg 32419919 1082 D16 W7 L8 L6 1.5  
13 Kyle Weaver 32642649 980 W8 L2 L4 D18 1.5  
14 Rachid Ben Cherif 32790058 1000 L1 W15 L3 L7 1.0  
15 Adhvith Gautham 31484502 763 L3 L14 L7 B--- 1.0  
16 Cruz Bird Mehta 32631579 unr. D12 L8 L11 H--- 1.0  
17 Michael G Spooner 32697675 unr. L5 L11 W18 L9 1.0  
18 John Edwards-El 12822107 783 L2 L4 L17 D13 0.5  

Pairings

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