Xeniya Balabayeva

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Xeniya Balabayeva
Country Kazakhstan
Born (2005-12-26) December 26, 2005 (age 19) [1]
Title Woman Grandmaster (2024)
FIDE   rating 2250 (January 2025)
Peak rating 2371 (August 2025)

Xeniya Balabayeva (born 26 December 2005) is a Kazakhstani chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) (2024).

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Biography

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.

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