Csaba Balogh


Csaba Balogh, 2013
Association	Hungary Hungary
Born	March 10, 1987 Budapest
title	International Master (2002) Grand Master (2004)
Current Elo rating	2580 (July 2020)
Best Elo rating	2672 (May 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Csaba Balogh (* 10. March 1987 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian Chess - Grandmaster .

Individual tournaments

Csaba Balogh started playing chess when she was nine. In April 2002 he got the title of International Master , in July 2004 he became a Grand Master. In 2003 he won the European Youth Championship U16 in Budva . At the 2005 World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk , Balogh defeated the strong Sergei Karjakin , then lost to Oleksandr Areschtschenko . In March 2008 he won a strong tournament in Hévíz in front of the equal points Arkadij Naiditsch , Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and Zoltán Almási . Although he entered the tournament with the lowest rating, he was the only player to remain undefeated.

Team chess

National team

After Balogh was successful with Hungarian youth teams in 2003 (he won both the U18 team championship in Balatonlelle and the U16 team world championship in Denizli ), he has been part of the Hungarian national team since 2005. Since then he has participated in all six Chess Olympiads from 2006 to 2016 (whereby in 2014 he finished second both with the team and in the individual ranking on the second board), the World Team Championships in 2011 and 2015 and all six European Team Championships from 2005 to 2015, where he Reached third place with the team in 2011 and 2015, achieved the second-best individual result of the reserve players in 2005, achieved the third-best individual result on the second board in 2013 and on the reserve board in 2015.

societies

Balogh played in the German Federal Chess League from 2006 to 2015 for the Eppingen chess club . After SC Eppingen withdrew from the 1st Bundesliga in 2015, he moved to SV 1930 Hockenheim . In the Austrian 1st Bundesliga he played from 2003 to 2006 for SK Sparkasse Fürstenfeld , with whom he also took part in the European Club Cup in 2004 , from 2007 to 2013 for SK Advisory Invest Baden , with which he was team champion in 2008 and 2012 , and on European Club Cup 2008, where he achieved the third-best individual result on the second board and in the 2019/20 season for the Fürstenfeld / Hartberg community. In Hungary he played for Honvéd Budapest until 2005 , since then for the Aquaprofit Nagykanizsai Tungsram Sakk-Klub , with which he became Hungarian team champion in 2007 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 . He won the Dutch master class in 2016 with En Passant Bunschoten-Spakenburg , in Bosnia and Herzegovina he played for ŠK SLAVIJA Istočno Sarajevo , in Romania for Dinamo Bucuresti , in Poland for Polonia Votum Wrocław and in China for Wuxi and Hebei . In the Czech Extraliga , Balogh played for ŠK Rapid Pardubice in the 2016/17 season and for Moravská Slavia Brno in the 2017/18 season , and in the Slovak Extraliga since 2016 for ŠK Modra . In the Belgian Interclubs he played for TSM Schaakklub from Mechelen in the 2017/18 season , in the French Top 12 he has played for Metz Fischer since 2018 . Balogh won the Swiss Bundesliga in the 2018/19 season with SC Gonzen .