Xeniya Balabayeva | |
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Country | Kazakhstan |
Born | [1] | December 26, 2005
Title | Woman Grandmaster (2024) |
Peak rating | 2335 (August 2024) |
Xeniya Balabayeva (born 26 December 2005) is a Kazakhstani chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) (2024).
In 2018 Xeniya Balabayeva won Western Asia Youth Chess Championship in G14 age group. [2] In 2019 she won Asian Youth Rapid Chess Championship in G14 age group. [3] In 2020 Xeniya Balabayeva won Kazakhstani Youth Chess Championship in G16 age group with a hundred percent result - 9 out of 9. [4] In 2021 she won Asia Youth Chess Championship in G16 age group. [5]
In 2021 Xeniya 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 Online World Youth Chess Championship in Girls under 16 age group.
Xeniya 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.
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