Xeniya Balabayeva

Xeniya Balabayeva
Personal information
Born (2005-12-26) 26 December 2005[1]
Chess career
CountryKazakhstan
TitleWoman Grandmaster (2024)
FIDE rating2371 (January 2026)
Peak rating2383 (September 2025)

Xeniya Balabayeva (also Kseniya; Russian: Ксения Балабаева; born 26 December 2005) is a Kazakh chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) (2024).

Biography

In 2018, Balabayeva won the Western Asia Youth Chess Championship in G14 age group.[2] In 2019, she won the Asian Youth Rapid Chess Championship in G14 age group.[3] In 2020, Balabayeva won the Kazakhstani Youth Chess Championship in G16 age group with a hundred percent result: 9 out of 9.[4] In 2021 she won the Asia Youth Chess Championship in G16 age group.[5]

In 2021, Balabayeva ranked in 2nd place in Kazakhstani Youth Chess Championship in G20 age group[6] and Kazakhstani Women's Chess Championship.[7] In this same year, she won the Online World Youth Chess Championship in Girls under 16 age group.

Balabayeva played for Kazakhstan in the Women's Chess Olympiads:

In 2021, she was awarded the FIDE Women International Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE Women Grandmaster (WGM) title three years later.

References

  1. ^ "The chess games of Xeniya Balabayeva".
  2. ^ Western Asia Youth Championship 2018 - U14 Girls
  3. ^ Asian Youth Chess Championships - 2019 Under 14 Girls | Rapid
  4. ^ Чемпионат РК по классическим шахматам среди девушек до 16 лет
  5. ^ Asia Youth Chess Championship - Under 16 Girls
  6. ^ Чемпионат Республики Казахстан 2021 по классическим шахматам до 20 лет-девушки
  7. ^ Чемпионат Республики Казахстан по классическим шахматам среди женщин 2021
  8. ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 44th Olympiad Chennai 2022 Women". chess-results.com.
  9. ^ 45th Chess Olympiad Budapest 2024 Women
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