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UAE INDV. Youth Chess Championship-U18 Open

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9 players participated in this 8-round tournament, held from 02 Aug 2025 to 09 Aug 2025 in Dubai, UAE. 2 titled players. Top 10 Elo average was 1784, and top seed was Yahya Shuaib Al Kaff (🇦🇪 UAE, 2089).

Jaber Soud (🇦🇪 UAE, 1899) won with 5.0/8, ahead of Hamad Essa Al-Blooshi (5.0) and Yahya Shuaib Al Kaff (4.5). Soud won on tie-break after catching the field in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 1: Abdulla Younes Alkhemeiri (1576) beat Alhamed Hamdan Edrees (2039), a +463-point gap.

Location
🇦🇪Dubai, UAE
Dates
02 Aug 2025 → 09 Aug 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 8 rounds
Top seed
🇦🇪Yahya Shuaib Al Kaff2089
Avg top 10
1,784
Participants
9
Titled players · 2
CM×2
Federations · 1 represented
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates×9
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 8 rounds

Tight race until R8; 2 players tied at 5.0/8, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 3 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
1
2
4
3
3
2
1
2
2468R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8Kaff takes lead
R7 · LEADER CHANGE13 Aug

Yahya Shuaib Al Kaff takes the sole lead (4.5/7).

R8 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 5.0/8. Soud takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (25.0).

R6 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

CM Hamad Essa Al-Blooshi drew with Jaber Soud (Black).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1CMHamad Essa Al-Blooshi*
½
½
½
2Jaber Soud
½
*
1
½
3Alhamed Hamdan Edrees
½
0
*
1
4Yahya Shuaib Al Kaff
½
½
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Soud, Jaber1899UAEF+6B+8N=3B+4N=2B−5N+7B5.025.025.016.251977+35.2
2Al-Blooshi, Hamad EssaCM1936UAE=7B+5N=3N=4B+9B=1NF+6B5.024.024.015.751937+12.8
3Yahya Shuaib Al Kaff2089UAE=5B+7N=2B=1N+8BF+6N−4B4.525.525.514.001930-42.8
4Hamdan Edrees, Alhamed2039UAE−6NF+5B=2N−1B+8N+9B+3N4.524.024.014.001924-30.4
5Eisa Mohmood, AlkhooriCM1766UAE=3N−2B−4NF=7B+9N+1B+8N4.024.524.511.501869+39.2
6Abdulla Younes Alkhemeiri1576UAE+4B−1N+9N−8BF=7N−3B−2N2.524.524.56.751692+26.0
7Hamdan Hassan Mohammed Hassan1544UAE=2N−3BF−9N=5N=6B+8B−1N2.524.024.07.751662+27.0
8Saud Bader Huwair Alzarooni1788UAEF+9B−1B+6N−3N−4B−7N−5B2.024.024.03.501607-64.8
9Rashid,Arif1420UAEF−8N−6B+7B−2N−5B−4NF1.020.520.52.501453-3.6

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets
UAE INDV. Youth Chess Championship-U18 Open (2025) — Dubai, UAE | Chess Tournament Results | ChessStats