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I Check Mate Cup 2025 ( Group A )

Round-RobinStandard

10 players participated in this 9-round tournament, held from 14 May 2025 to 28 May 2025 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Top 10 Elo average was 1769, and top seed was Nicolas Lovo (🇭🇳 HON, 1918).

Fernando Alexis Mejia Varela (🇭🇳 HON, 1848) won with 8.5/9, ahead of Nicolas Lovo (8.0) and Fernando Hernandez (7.0). Mejia Varela clinched sole first place in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 8: Olmert Cristobal Mena Membreno (1507) beat Pedro Antonio Hernandez (1761), a +254-point gap.

Location
🇭🇳Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Dates
14 May 2025 → 28 May 2025
Time control
Standard: 60 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move 1
System
Round-robin · 9 rounds
Top seed
🇭🇳Nicolas Lovo1918
Avg top 10
1,769
Participants
10
Federations · 1 represented
🇭🇳Honduras×10
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 10 · 9 rounds

Fernando Alexis Mejia Varela led from R9 onwards, the runner-up race stayed tight. Title race converged from 3 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R9.

Co-leaders
4
3
3
3
3
2
2
1
1
#1#2#5#10R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9Mejia Varela takes lead
R9 · LEADER CHANGE27 May

Fernando Alexis Mejia Varela takes the sole lead (8.5/9).

R9 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Fernando Alexis Mejia Varela beat Nicolas Lovo (Black).

WIN STREAKS · 3 top finishers

Fernando Alexis Mejia Varela 7 wins (R1–R7)Nicolas Lovo 8 wins (R1–R8)Fernando Hernandez 5 wins (R2–R6)

Cross-table

#PlayerElo12345678910PtsSBBhΔ EloPerf
1🇭🇳Mejia Varela, Fernando Alexis1848*1½11111118.533.0036.5+60.42205
2🇭🇳Lovo, Nicolas19180*111111118.028.5037.0+33.02105
3🇭🇳Hernandez, Fernando1792½0*½1111117.022.5038.0+45.01987
4🇭🇳Aguilera Aguilar, Jorge Luis186300½*1111116.518.5038.5+16.61925
5🇭🇳Valladares Heller, Roussel16600000*0½1113.57.2541.5+17.61702
6🇭🇳Maldonado, Rigoberto178300001*½0½13.07.0042.0-33.01643
8🇭🇳Mena Membreno, Olmert Cristobal15070000½½*10½2.56.2542.5+41.21631
9🇭🇳Hernandez, Pedro Antonio17610000010*1½2.56.0042.5-37.21604
7🇭🇳Sanchez Bonilla, Samuel179300000½10*12.55.0042.5-90.01601
10🇭🇳Argueta, Douglas1769000000½½0*1.02.5044.0-138.41418

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets