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Round of 16 of the State Chess Championship, Group 5

Round-RobinStandard

8 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 17 Sept 2025 to 20 Dec 2025 in Kfar Saba, Israel. Top 10 Elo average was 1480, and top seed was Gideon Shoval (🇮🇱 ISR, 1785).

Omer Barak (🇮🇱 ISR, 1719) won with 6.0/7, ahead of Adam Ben Avi (6.0) and Nathan Pupko (6.0). Barak won on tie-break after catching the field in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 7: Moritz Goldshtein (1530) beat Mordechai Lubish (1673), a +143-point gap.

Location
🇮🇱Kfar Saba, Israel
Dates
17 Sept 2025 → 20 Dec 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Round-robin · 7 rounds
Top seed
🇮🇱Gideon Shoval1785
Avg top 10
1,480
Participants
8
Federations · 1 represented
🇮🇱Israel×8
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 8 · 7 rounds

Title race narrowed from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 3 at the finish.

Co-leaders
3
3
2
2
2
1
3
#1#2#4#8R1R2R3R4R5R6R7
Barak#1Ben Avi#2Pupko#3Geva Brodt#4Shoval#5Goldshtein#6Taha#7Lubish#8
R7 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Omer Barak beat Adam Ben Avi (Black).

WIN STREAKS · 3 top finishers

Omer Barak 5 wins (R1–R5)Adam Ben Avi 6 wins (R1–R6)Nathan Pupko 4 wins (R4–R7)

Cross-table

#PlayerElo12345678PtsSBBhΔ EloPerf
1🇮🇱Barak, Omer1719*10111116.016.0022.0+69.61960
2🇮🇱Ben Avi, Adam17160*1111116.016.0022.0+70.41960
3🇮🇱Pupko, Nathan174210*111116.016.0022.0+30.61956
4🇮🇱Geva Brodt, Yoav1671000*01113.04.5025.0-32.01570
5🇮🇱Shoval, Gideon17850001*½012.55.2525.5-94.41483
6🇮🇱Goldshtein, Moritz15300000½*112.53.2525.5-1.21525
8🇮🇱Lubish, Mordechai1673000010*01.02.5027.0-36.21422
7🇮🇱Taha, Ahmad00000001*1.01.0027.00.01382

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets