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Yuri Balashov

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Yuri Sergeyevich Balashov (Russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Балашо́в; born 12 March 1949) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Balashov is the 238th most popular chess player (down from 227th in 2019), the 2,519th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,560th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Yuri Balashov ranks 238 out of 461. Before him are Igors Rausis, Smbat Lputian, Fabiano Caruana, Ashot Anastasian, Viktorija Čmilytė, and Zdenko Kožul. After him are Kiril Georgiev, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Harika Dronavalli, Alexander Morozevich, Andrija Fuderer, and Cristina Adela Foișor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Yuri Balashov ranks 710. Before him are Ian Livingstone, Barriemore Barlow, Bert Vogelstein, Tapio Kantanen, Ronald M. Evans, and Janusz Pyciak-Peciak. After him are Arturo Vázquez, Bernd Nickel, Chicão, Henry Puna, Sean Chen, and Zbigniew Wassermann.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Balashov ranks 2,519 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Uvarov (1960), Kristina Orbakaitė (1971), Andrei Cherkasov (1970), Vladimir Jurowski (1972), Anfisa Reztsova (1964), and Sergei Ivanov (1975). After him are Oleg Pashinin (1974), Svetlana Khorkina (1979), Polina Gagarina (1987), Eduard Ivanov (1938), Leyla Aliyeva (1984), and Alan Dzagoev (1990).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Yuri Balashov ranks 33. Before him are Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), Leonid Shamkovich (1923), Irina Levitina (1954), Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984), Anatoly Lein (1931), and Larissa Volpert (1926). After him are Alexander Morozevich (1977), Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya (1957), Alexander Grischuk (1983), Lev Psakhis (1958), Andrei Sokolov (1963), and Peter Svidler (1976).

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