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UAE INDV. Junior Chess Championship-U20 Open

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8 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 02 Aug 2025 to 09 Aug 2025 in Dubai, UAE. 2 titled players. Top 10 Elo average was 1864, and top seed was Mohamed Saeed Laily (🇦🇪 UAE, CM, 2071).

Ghaith Saeed Alnuaimi (🇦🇪 UAE, 1882) won with 5.0/7, ahead of Mohamed Saeed Laily (5.0) and Khaled Khalifah (4.0). Alnuaimi shared the lead from round 6, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 5: Alawlaqi Ahmed Waqqas (1696) beat Mohamed Saeed Laily (CM, 2071), a +375-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 · 7 rounds
Top seed
🇦🇪CMMohamed Saeed Laily2071
Avg top 10
1,864
Participants
8
Titled players · 2
CM×2
Federations · 1 represented
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates×8
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 7 rounds

Tight race until R7; 2 players tied at 5.0/7, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
2
1
1
2
1
3
2
23.55.57R1R2R3R4R5R6R7Zayed takes lead
Alnuaimi5Laily5Khalifah4Zayed3.5Ahmed Waqqas3.5Humaidan Mohamed3
R5 · LEADER CHANGE11 Aug

Sultan Al Taher Zayed takes the sole lead (3.5/5).

R7 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 5.0/7. Alnuaimi takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (22.0).

R4 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Ghaith Saeed Alnuaimi beat CM Mohamed Saeed Laily (White).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Ghaith Saeed Alnuaimi*
1
1
1
2CMMohamed Saeed Laily
0
*
1
1
3CMKhaled Khalifah
0
0
*
½
4Sultan Al Taher Zayed
0
0
½
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Ghaith Saeed Alnuaimi1882UAE−8B=6N+4B+2B=7N+5B+3N5.022.023.019.002019+26.6
2Mohamed Saeed LailyCM2071UAE+3B+8N+6B−1N−4B+7B+5N5.022.023.014.501997-8.6
3Khalifah, KhaledCM1853UAE−2N+7B=5N=4N+8B+6N−1B4.023.024.010.501915+12.6
4Ahmed Waqqas, Alawlaqi1696UAE=6N−5B−1N=3B+2N+8B=7N3.523.524.511.001888+32.4
5Zayed, Sultan Al Taher1969UAE=7N+4N=3B+8N=6B−1N−2B3.523.524.59.501849-20.8
6Humaidan Mohamed, Alzaabi1881UAE=4B=1B−2N=7B=5N−3B+8N3.024.025.08.501812-26.4
7Mohammad Abdulrahman, Alawadhi1919UAE=5B−3N+8B=6N=1B−2N=4B3.024.025.08.501806-20.8
8Mohammed Saeed Alshamsi1640UAE+1N−2B−7N−5B−3N−4N−6B1.024.027.05.001583-8.2

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets