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Youth Arab Chess Championship Open U10 2025

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18 players participated in this 9-round tournament, held from 20 Jul 2025 to 28 Jul 2025 in Casablanca, Morocco. 6 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 1476, and top seed was Jahed Mendili (🇹🇳 TUN, 1830).

Khaled AlJamaat (🇶🇦 QAT, 1768) won with 7.5/9, ahead of Jahed Mendili (7.5) and Youssef Dwidar (7.0). AlJamaat shared the lead from round 7, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 7: Youssef Dwidar (1623) beat Jahed Mendili (1830), a +207-point gap.

Location
🇲🇦Casablanca, Morocco
Dates
20 Jul 2025 → 28 Jul 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 9 rounds
Top seed
🇹🇳Jahed Mendili1830
Avg top 10
1,476
Participants
18
Federations · 6 represented
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates×5
🇹🇳Tunisia×5
🇲🇦Morocco×4
🇪🇬Egypt×1
🇶🇦Qatar×1
🇮🇶Iraq×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 9 rounds

Tight race until R5; 2 players tied at 7.5/9, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
9
5
2
2
1
1
2
2
2
2.54.579R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9
Mendili7.5AlJamaat7.5Dwidar7Rahand5.5Saleh5Ali5
R5–R9 · LEAD HELD

Jahed Mendili held the sole lead from R5 through R9 without losing it.

R9 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 7.5/9. AlJamaat takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (44.0).

R4 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Jahed Mendili drew with Khaled AlJamaat (White).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Jahed Mendili*
½
0
1
2Khaled AlJamaat
½
*
1
½
3Youssef Dwidar
1
0
*
1
4Awder Abdullh Rahand
0
½
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1AlJamaat, Khaled1768QAT+8B+3N+6B=2N=4B+9B=5N+12B+11N7.544.048.039.001836+21.6
2Mendili,Jahed1830TUN+18N+7B+11N=1B+5N+4B−3N+10B+9N7.543.543.532.751833+2.8
3Dwidar, Youssef1623EGY+13N−1B+5N+11B−9N+12B+2B+4N+10N7.043.047.035.001935+78.4
4Rahand, Awder Abdullh1672IRQ+15N−5B+12N+10B=1N−2N+9B−3B+17N5.543.545.522.251518-39.5
5Saleh,Iyed1555TUN+9B+4N−3B+6N−2B=11N=1B+8N−7B5.047.051.526.001613+19.2
6Tormane, Youssef1525TUN+10N+18B−1N−5B−12N+7B+14N−9N+15B5.037.537.516.501505-4.0
7Saif Ghalib Alafeefi1569UAE+12B−2N−8B−9N+16B−6N+18B+14N+5N5.037.537.515.501510-10.4
8Hamdan Mohammed Al Ali0UAE−1N+14B+7N−13B−10N+17N+15B−5B+18N5.035.035.014.0016130.0
9Zaafrane, Anas0TUN−5N=13B+14N+7B+3B−1N−4N+6B−2B4.546.550.022.5015980.0
10Zayed Mohammed Al Ali0UAE−6B+16N+17B−4N+8B=13N+11B−2N−3B4.541.543.516.5015190.0
11Ouahib, Taha1655MAR+16B+17N−2B−3N+13N=5B−10N+18B−1B4.540.540.511.501518-37.2
12Sayah, Mohamed0TUN−7N+15B−4B+17N+6B−3N+13B−1N−16B4.040.542.514.5014940.0
13Salem Ahmed AlMheiri0UAE−3B=9N+15B+8N−11B=10B−12N+16N−14B4.036.539.516.008390.0
14SOUHAIB,CHIHAB0MAR−17B−8N−9B+16N=15B+18N−6B−7B+13N3.532.032.08.757510.0
15MOUHIB,MOUAD0MAR−4B−12N−13N+18B=14N+16B−8N+17B−6N3.532.032.06.7514610.0
16Rashid Amer AlTamimi0UAE−11N−10B+18N−14B−7N−15N+17B−13B+12N3.031.031.06.0014700.0
17Oujaa, Ammar1561MAR+14N−11B−10N−12B+18N−8B−16N−15N−4B2.033.533.53.50864-28.8
18FIDE 93356920—−2B−6N−16B−15N−17B−14B−7N−11N−8B0.037.039.00.008270.0

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
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