| Xeniya Balabayeva | |
| Country: | Kazakhstan |
| Birth Date: | [1] |
| Woman Grandmaster (2024) | |
| Peakrating: | 2335 (August 2024) |
| Fideid: | 13719688 |
Xeniya Balabayeva (born 26 December 2005) is a Kazakhstani chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) (2024).
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.