Yuri Sergeevich Balashov

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Yuri Balashov, 1973
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born March 12, 1949
Schadrinsk , Soviet Union
title International Master (1970)
Grand Master (1973)
Current  Elo rating 2462 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2600 (January 1979 to July 1981)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Juri Sergejewitsch Balaschow ( Russian Юрий Сергеевич Балашов ; born March 12, 1949 in Schadrinsk ( Kurgan Oblast )) is a Russian chess player .

Success as a player

Yuri Balashov (1965)

In 1967 Balashov won a strong junior tournament in Riga. In 1970 he became Master of Moscow and in the same year he obtained the FIDE title of International Master . He has been a grandmaster since 1973 . In 1976 he reached second place behind Anatoly Karpov at the USSR Championships .

Balashov was a successful tournament player in the 1970s and 1980s. a. with good placements in the traditional tournaments of Hastings and Wijk aan Zee . On German soil, Balaschow won tournaments in Halle (1976), was co-winner in Munich in 1979 and won the Dortmund Chess Days in 1987 . At the international German championship in 1983 in Hanover , he was third behind Anatoli Karpow and Tamas Giorgadse . In the summer of 1988 in Berlin he was split first with Bogdan Lalić and Anatoli Wolfowitsch Waisser .

National team

Polugajewski + Balaschow, Chess Olympiad 1980

In 1980 Balashov was part of the Soviet team at the Chess Olympiad in Valletta . With the team and as the best substitute player (7.5 points from 10 games) he won the gold medal. In addition, Balashov won the European team championships in 1970, 1973, 1977 and 1980, where he achieved the best individual result in Bath on the second reserve board and in 1977 in Moscow on the fifth board.

societies

As a teenager, Balaschow played for Trud , later for Burewestnik , with whom he won the Soviet club championship in 1971, 1974 and 1980, as well as the European Club Cups in 1976 and 1979 and reached the finals in 1982 and 1984. At the European Club Cups in 1990 and 1992 Balaschow took part with Tigran Petrosyan Moscow . In the Russian team championship he played in 1998 for ShK Tomsk , 2000 for GPZ-1 Phoenix Moscow , 2001 and 2002 for SK Novokuznetsk and 2003 for Debiut-DVGU Vladivostok . In the German Bundesliga, Balaschow played for SVG Plettenberg in the 1997/98 season .

Activity as a second

In the diploma thesis of his chess trainer studies, Balaschow dealt with the games of Bobby Fischer and was appointed to the Armenian's secondary staff for the candidate final between Petrosyan and Fischer in Buenos Aires in 1971. In the 1970s and 1980s, Balashov's enormous chess knowledge made him a sought-after coach and second . He supported Anatoly Karpov from 1978 to 1984 in his world championship fights against Viktor Korchnoi and Garry Kasparov . In 1992 he helped Boris Spasski during the new edition of the " Match of the Century " against Bobby Fischer.

Web links

Commons : Yuri Balaschow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 76
  2. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days - overview and reports from 1973
  3. ^ German individual chess championship 1983 in Hanover on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  4. ↑ Yuri Balaschow's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Yuri Balaschow's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Yuri Balashov's results at Soviet club championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Yuri Balaschow's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Yuri Balashov's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Balashov, Yuri Sergeyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Балашов, Юрий Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Shadrinsk ( Kurgan Oblast )