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Kfar Saba Open Championship for Veteran Chess Players 2025

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20 players participated in this 6-round tournament, held from 12 Jul 2025 to 30 Aug 2025 in Kfar Saba, Israel. Top 10 Elo average was 1815, and top seed was Shlomo Menkes (🇮🇱 ISR, 1996).

Shlomo Menkes (🇮🇱 ISR, 1996) won with 5.0/6, ahead of Harry Schwarz (5.0) and Boris Klein (4.5). Menkes shared the lead from round 1, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 5: Shmuel Shtern (1607) beat Oleg Rabinovich (1773), a +166-point gap.

Location
🇮🇱Kfar Saba, Israel
Dates
12 Jul 2025 → 30 Aug 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 6 rounds
Top seed
🇮🇱Shlomo Menkes1996
Avg top 10
1,815
Participants
20
Federations · 1 represented
🇮🇱Israel×20
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 6 rounds

Tight race until R6; 2 players tied at 5.0/6, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
9
3
3
2
3
2
1.534.56R1R2R3R4R5R6
Menkes5Schwarz5Klein4.5Klevinskiy4Siti4Shtern3.5
R6 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 5.0/6. Menkes takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (17.0).

R3–R6 · WIN STREAK

Harry Schwarz won 4 in a row (R3–R6).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Shlomo Menkes*—
½
½
2Harry Schwarz—*—
1
3Boris Klein
½
—*
0
4David Klevinskiy
½
0
1
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Menkes, Shlomo1996ISR+19N+14B=3N+9B=4N+6N5.017.018.013.752051+8.2
2Schwarz, Harry1839ISR+16N−5B+13N+14B+10N+4B5.015.517.513.501963+14.6
3Klein, Boris1919ISR+12B+17N=1B−4N+7B+10B4.518.520.013.501952+6.0
4Klevinskiy, David1761ISR+6N=9B+5N+3B=1B−2N4.022.025.016.001946+29.0
5Siti, Eli1714ISR+15B+2N−4B−10N+17B+9B4.017.018.511.501860+23.8
6Shtern, Shmuel1607ISR−4B=12N+15B+17N+11N−1B3.517.018.58.001811+31.4
7Cohen, Ofer1630ISR−17B=15N+18B+12N−3N+13B3.513.515.08.001712+10.2
8Lubish, Mordechai1677ISR−9N+20B=14N=11B=13N+16B3.512.513.06.251819+19.4
9Paz, Arnon1848ISR+8B=4N=10B−1N+16B−5N3.019.521.59.001747-16.0
10Bacall, Udi1687ISR+20N=11B=9N+5B−2B−3N3.019.520.07.501792+16.4
11Rabinovich, Oleg1773ISR=13B=10N=17B=8N−6B+15N3.014.516.07.251649-16.2
12Gerchikov, Pavel1720ISR−3N=6B=19N−7B+20N+14N3.014.515.04.751725+0.6
13Shkliar, Michael0ISR=11N=19B−2B+18N=8B−7N2.516.517.55.2516590.0
14Ovechkin, Lilia1807ISR+18B−1N=8B−2N=15N−12B2.018.520.04.251607-31.4
15Galant, Chaim1514ISR−5N=7B−6N+20N=14B−11B2.016.016.53.251573+8.2
16Gorelikov, Israel1648ISR−2B−18N+20B+19B−9N−8N2.014.014.51.501608-6.6
17Minzer, Rudolfo1762ISR+7N−3B=11N−6B−5NF1.518.519.55.001580-24.6
18Dor, Avigdor1648ISR−14N+16B−7N−13BF=20B1.511.011.52.251599-6.2
19Kopelevitch, Eli1728ISR−1B=13N=12B−16NFF1.014.015.52.751515-15.8
20Green, Aharon1657ISR−10B−8N−16N−15B−12B=18N0.513.515.00.751248-102.0

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets