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Qualificatif Olympiades Open

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18 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 16 Jan 2026 to 18 Jan 2026 in Dakar, Senegal. 1 titled players. Top 10 Elo average was 1796, and top seed was Cheikh Sidy Mohamed Deme (🇸🇳 SEN, 1923).

Diop Mamadou Lamine Dame (🇸🇳 SEN, 0) won with 5.5/7, ahead of Cheikh Sidy Mohamed Deme (5.5) and Thomas Bodin-Hullin (5.0). Dame won on tie-break after catching the field in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 5: Mlik Omar (1484) beat Bernard Lesbros (CM, 1876), a +392-point gap.

Location
🇸🇳Dakar, Senegal
Dates
16 Jan 2026 → 18 Jan 2026
Time control
Standard: 60 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 7 rounds
Top seed
🇸🇳Cheikh Sidy Mohamed Deme1923
Avg top 10
1,796
Participants
18
Titled players · 1
CM×1
Federations · 1 represented
🇸🇳Senegal×17
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 7 rounds

Tight race until R7; 2 players tied at 5.5/7, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
10
4
2
2
1
1
2
23.55.57R1R2R3R4R5R6R7Bodin-Hullin takes lead
Dame5.5Deme5.5Bodin-Hullin5Dieng4.5Sidy4.5Omar4
R6 · LEADER CHANGE25 Jan

Thomas Bodin-Hullin takes the sole lead (5.0/6).

R7 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 5.5/7. Dame takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (26.0).

R4 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Diop Mamadou Lamine Dame drew with Cheikh Sidy Mohamed Deme (White).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Diop Mamadou Lamine Dame*
½
—
1
2Cheikh Sidy Mohamed Deme
½
*
1
0
3Thomas Bodin-Hullin—
0
*
1
4Moustapha Dieng
0
1
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Diop Mamadou Lamine Dame0SEN+6N−7B+11N=2B+5B+10N+4B5.526.029.022.2518540.0
2Deme, Cheikh Sidy Mohamed1923SEN−4B+15N+13B=1N+7N+6B+3N5.525.527.520.251998+8.4
3Bodin-Hullin, Thomas1854SEN+18B=13N+14B=5N+10B+4N−2B5.022.522.513.501983+20.0
4Dieng, Moustapha1706SEN+2N+14N+5B=10N+8B−3B−1N4.528.030.017.752030+101.6
5Kone Sidy1845SEN+9N+16B−4N=3B−1N+11B+10N4.525.526.514.001794-8.4
6Dioum, Mouhamadou Falilou1777SEN−1B+12N+9B−8N+11B−2N+14B4.025.027.012.001764-0.8
7Sarkar, Aidan Krishna Benoit1761SEN+12B+1N−10B+13N−2B−8N+15B4.024.026.013.001592-35.2
8Badji, Sekou Aransbene1771SEN−11N+17B+16N+6B−4N+7B−9N4.020.520.59.001682-8.6
9Mlik Omar1484SEN−5BF−6N+15B+14N+13N+8B4.019.019.010.501864+91.2
10Diop, Wara1752SEN+17N+11B+7N=4B−3N−1B−5B3.526.526.59.251705-5.6
11Firas Yaiche0SEN+8B−10N−1B+12B−6N−5N+16B3.024.525.58.0015930.0
12Pape salif Diallo0SEN−7N−6B−15B−11N+16N+14B+13B3.017.518.55.5015840.0
13Dicko Aboubakr Sidiq0SEN+?N=3B−2N−7B+15N−9B−12N2.523.523.54.5017000.0
14Lesbros, BernardCM1876SEN+15N−4B−3N+16B−9B−12N−6N2.022.523.53.001463-51.0
15Gueye Mouhamet1693SEN−14B−2B+12N−9N−13B+16B−7N2.021.022.04.00961-66.0
16Dieye Ben Mbarick Diop0SEN+?B−5N−8B−14N−12B−15N−11N1.018.518.50.0015540.0
17FIDE 199003410—−10B−8NFFFFF0.07.57.50.009620.0
18Mouhamadou Lamine Toure1635SEN−3NFFFFFF0.05.05.00.001054-8.8

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
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