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World White Cane Day Cup National Chess Tournament - A

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18 players participated in this 6-round tournament, held from 17 Oct 2025 to 19 Oct 2025 in Izmir, Turkey. 2 titled players. Top 10 Elo average was 1918, and top seed was Alper Tezcan (🇹🇷 TUR, CM, 2191).

Yigit Tuna Teksahin (🇹🇷 TUR, 1786) won with 4.0/6, ahead of Nazim Efe Ozkeskin (4.0) and Atakan Yilmaz (4.0).

The biggest upset came in round 2: Fikret Kucukkara (1768) beat Kemal Bulut (1985), a +217-point gap.

Location
🇹🇷Izmir, Turkey
Dates
17 Oct 2025 → 19 Oct 2025
Time control
Standard: 60 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 6 rounds
Top seed
🇹🇷CMAlper Tezcan2191
Avg top 10
1,918
Participants
18
Titled players · 2
CM×2
Federations · 1 represented
🇹🇷Turkiye×18
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 6 rounds

Tight race until R6; 4 players tied at 4.0/6, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 4 co-leaders at R4 to 4 at the finish.

Co-leaders
9
2
1
4
3
4
1.534.56R1R2R3R4R5R6
Konyar4Teksahin4Yilmaz4Ozkeskin4Eracar3.5Unsal3.5— ex-leaders:Tezcanled R3, #8
R6 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

4 players finish on 4.0/6. Teksahin takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (18.0).

R2 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Enver Konyar drew with Yigit Tuna Teksahin (White).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Enver Konyar*
½
½
0
2Yigit Tuna Teksahin
½
*
½
½
3Atakan Yilmaz
½
½
*
4Nazim Efe Ozkeskin
1
½
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Teksahin, Yigit Tuna1786TUR+18B=4N=5B+11N=3N=2B4.018.018.010.251995+66.8
2Ozkeskin, Nazim Efe1867TUR+12N+7B9B+4N=5B=1N4.017.519.512.751987+35.2
3Yilmaz, Atakan1938TUR+17B=5N=4B+7N=1B=10N4.017.017.510.501915-3.2
4Konyar, Enver1883TUR+13N=1B=3N2B+17N+8B4.017.017.59.501959+23.6
5Eracar, Ali Arda1804TUR+10N=3B=1N=8B=2N=6B3.518.521.011.751896+31.6
6Unsal, Yusuf Kaan1848TUR+11B9N=10B=12N+7B=5N3.514.516.59.501886+10.0
7Akyuz, Pars1760TUR+8N2N+15B3B6N+11N3.017.018.06.501842+26.4
8Sanan, Demirhan1869TUR7B+17N+12B=5N=10B4N3.015.015.55.501783-28.4
9Tezcan, AlperCM2191TUR+14N+6B+2NFFF3.09.09.09.002638+13.6
10Deniz, Ibrahim Firat1727TUR5BF=6N+13B=8N=3B2.516.016.07.251845+31.2
11Celik, Evren Inan1741TUR6N+14B=13N1B+15N7B2.514.015.03.501735-1.4
12Soydan, Can1748TUR2B+15N8N=6B=13NF2.013.514.03.751757+2.4
13Kucukkara, Fikret1768TUR4B+18N=11B10N=12B14N2.012.512.52.251689-26.0
14Pusmaz, Onur1799TUR9B11N=17B15NF+13B1.59.09.02.251705-30.0
15Hisir, Onur1792TUR16N12B7N+14B11BF1.010.010.01.501569-55.6
16Savran, BoraCM1997TUR+15BFFFFF1.01.01.01.002591+9.2
17Duran, Burak1777TUR3N8B=14NF4BF0.514.514.50.751551-39.2
18Bulut, Kemal1985TUR1N13BFFFF0.06.06.00.00977-61.6

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
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Biggest upsets