Ilija Balinow

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Ilija Wesselinow Balinow ( Bulgarian Илия Веселинов Балинов ; born July 28, 1966 in Batak ) is an Austrian chess player of Bulgarian origin.

Life

He learned to play chess from his father. From 1984 he studied at the Technical University of Sofia , from 1991 at the Technical University of Vienna . He has been a chess trainer at SK Donau Wien since 2006 . Illija Balinow wrote tournament reports in a column for the Wiener Zeitung's online service from 2011 to 2019 .

successes

His first chess tournament was the U14 city championship of Plovdiv , which he won with 13 wins from 13 games. In 1996 he won the City Championship of Vienna , the Vienna Danube Open , a tournament in Wulkaprodersdorf and the Karl Schlechter Open . In 1997 he finished first in the chess open in Oberwart . In 2002 he won the Casino Open in Seefeld in Tirol ahead of Jacob Murey . In 2006 he won the International Währing Open in Vienna, the Open in Schwarzach im Pongau before Duško Pavasovič and the 15th International Vienna Chess Championship .

His first chess club was Lokomotive Plovdiv . With Styria Graz he was team champion in the Austrian 1st Bundesliga in the 2005/06 season , before that he played for Tschaturanga Vienna . In Germany he plays for the SF Deizisau . With the Austrian national team he took part in the Mitropa Cups in 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004 as well as the European Team Championships in 2003 in Plovdiv and in 2007 in Heraklion .

In 1996 he became international champion , he has been a grandmaster since 1999. His Elo rating as of January 2016 is 2478, which puts him in fifth place in the Austrian Elo ranking. However, he is listed as inactive because he has not played an Elo-rated chess game since the 2014/15 season. His highest rating to date was 2570 in January 1997, which put him in fourth place in the Bulgarian rankings. However, his performance is very unsteady: in 1996 he was still at 2385 Elo points and was able to increase by almost 200 points within a year. By 2004, the Elo number had fallen back to 2372 points, in October 2006 it had reached 2510.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of SK Donau Wien ( Memento from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Balinow, Ilija
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Балинов, Илья Веселинов (Bulgarian); Balinov, Ilia (FIDE); Balinow, Ilija Wesselinow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chess grandmaster of Bulgarian origin
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Batak (Bulgaria)