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Balacek, Tadeas
CM🇨🇿FIDE 327646· Male· Czech Republic· Born in 1995
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Tadeas Balacek, a 31-year-old Czech Candidate Master, is rated 2416 — his current career high and ranked 26th among Czech players, and in the top 1% worldwide. He is progressing steadily with +36 Elo over the past 12 months. 25 rated games in the past year (≈48/year long-term). Recent standard appearances include European Individual Chess Championship 2026, PSS - Krajsky prebor 2025-2026 r11, and Extraliga 2025-2026 r9-11. Also played 1 rapid (including Memorial Vlastimila Marese 2025) and 1 blitz events (including Mistrovstvi CR v blesku 2025 - open) recently. He reached Czech #26 in May 2026.
Awarded CM in 2011 (age 16). At junior level, he reached World #94 in U16, World #100 in U10 and #4, #3, #2 and #2 nationally in U20, U18, U14 and U12.
Current rating
2416
Standard
Rpd2293·Blz2263
All-time high
2416
at best
May 2026 · age 31
May 2026 · age 31
Activity
14
games / yr avg. · ≈1/mo
25 past 12 mo · ≈2/mo
classical only
Moderately active
classical only
Moderately active
Signature stat
#26
#26 · Czech players · of 5,624
Career timeline
23 entries2026
Peak Czech rank: #26
at age 31 · rated 2416
May 2026
Crossed 2400
at age 31
May 2026
All-time peak 2416
at age 31
May 2026
K-factor lowered to 10
at age 31
May 2026
2018
Re-crossed 2300
at age 23
Nov 2018
2017
Re-crossed 2300
at age 22
Nov 2017
Standard rating history
Activity & highlights
Top opponent
Evolution
+36
2380 → 2416
Tournaments
12
25 games
Score
16/ 2564.0%
9W14D2L
Top 3 wins
Top 2 losses
Last 12 months — tournaments
12 events| Event | Date | Score | Rank | Perf | Δ Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Open Swiss | Apr 2026 | 6.5/11 | #103 | 2438 | +15.8 |
Team | Mar 2026 | 1/1 | #3 | 2947 | +3.8 |
Team | Mar 2026 | 1.5/2 | #23 | 2430 | +1.8 |
Team | Mar 2026 | 1/1 | #35 | 2922 | +3.4 |
Team | Mar 2026 | 0.5/1 | #74 | 2273 | -3.2 |
Team | Feb 2026 | 2/2 | #1 | 3152 | +19.0 |
Round-Robin | Feb 2026 | 0.5/1 | #79 | — | +0.2 |
Team | Feb 2026 | 0.5/1 | #90 | 2366 | 0.0 |
Team | Feb 2026 | 1/1 | #47 | 3007 | +5.8 |
Lliga Catalana 2026 - Divisio d'Honor Grup I Lliga Catalana 2026 - Divisio d'Honor Grup I Rondas 1-2 Round-Robin | Jan 2026 | 0.5/1 | #64 | — | +4.8 |
Hot streak: 4 tournaments without losing Elo.
Most-Played Opponents
vsTomas KrausGM
🇨🇿CZE·2409
+1 −2 =7
10 games·last met Sep 2014
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vsJakub PulpanIM
🇨🇿CZE·2434
+2 −2 =3
7 games·last met Dec 2025
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vsTadeas KriebelIM
🇨🇿CZE·2524
+0 −3 =4
7 games·last met Nov 2021
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vsMartin Pospisil
🇨🇿CZE·2034
+5 −0 =2
7 games·last met Dec 2012
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vsMartin CervenyIM
🇨🇿CZE·2310
+1 −3 =2
6 games·last met Dec 2025
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Rankings
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Czech Republic
#26
out of 6,368 players
Europe
#882
in continent
World
#1,412
out of 400,000+
National ranking
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