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Ballas, Kleon-Evangelos
🇬🇷FIDE 4215311· Male· Greece· Born in 1994
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Kleon-Evangelos Ballas, a 32-year-old Greek player, is rated 2029 — just 10 short of his peak of 2039 (Dec 2025, age 31). He is progressing steadily with +29 Elo over the past 12 months. 18 rated games in the past year (≈24/year long-term). Recent standard appearances include 12th Team Memory Cup 2025, 18th PALEOCHORA INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT - A, and 2025 National Team Champiosnhip A Category. Also played 1 rapid (including 9th Rapid Open Doors SO Polichnis) and 6 blitz events (including Open Blitz Tournament WSTCC 2026) recently. He took a 12-month break between Sep 2022 and Oct 2023.
At junior level, he reached #16, #12, #12, #19 and #6 nationally in U20, U18, U16, U14 and U12.
Current rating
2029
Standard
Rpd1960·Blz1955
All-time high
2039
−10 pts below
Dec 2025 · age 31
Dec 2025 · age 31
Activity
11
games / yr avg. · ≈1/mo
18 past 12 mo · ≈2/mo
classical only
Moderately active
classical only
Moderately active
Signature stat
#23,382
#23,382 · players worldwide · of 218,279
Career timeline
16 entries2025
All-time peak 2039
at age 31 · −10 from today
Dec 2025
Re-crossed 2000
at age 31
Mar 2025
2022
Inactive for 12 months
paused at 1942 → returned at 1987
Sep 2022
2018
Crossed 2000
at age 24
Sep 2018
2014
16th Greek U20 player
at age 20 · rated 1946
Sep 2014
2012
12th Greek U18 player
at age 18 · rated 1965
Jan 2012
Standard rating history
Peak
FIDE title
Threshold
First rated
Inactive period
COVID-19
FIDE recal.
Activity & highlights
Top opponent
Evolution
+29
2000 → 2029
Tournaments
4
18 games
Score
11/ 1861.1%
9W4D5L
Top 3 wins
Top 3 losses
Last 12 months — tournaments
4 events| Event | Date | Score | Rank | Perf | Δ Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Team | Mar 2026 | 3.5/5 | #17 | 1941 | -10.0 |
Team | Sep 2025 | 2/2 | #42 | 2483 | +4.8 |
Open Swiss | Jul 2025 | 3.5/6 | #134 | 2228 | +30.2 |
Open Swiss | Jun 2025 | 2/5 | #252 | 2041 | +4.0 |
Most-Played Opponents
vsPanayotis PapadopoulosCM
🇬🇷GRE·2298
+5 −5 =3
13 games·last met Aug 2025
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vsAthanasios-panagiotis Ballas
🇬🇷GRE·2173
+4 −4 =4
12 games·last met Apr 2026
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vsNikolaos GalopoulosIM
🇬🇷GRE·2426
+0 −11 =0
11 games·last met Aug 2022
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vsGeorgios Sideris
🇬🇷GRE·1900
+1 −4 =5
10 games·last met Oct 2025
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vsAlexandros Gouliaros-Antoniadis
🇬🇷GRE·1927
+2 −4 =3
9 games·last met Aug 2011
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Rankings
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Greece
#291
out of 3,681 players
Europe
#17,216
in continent
World
#23,382
out of 400,000+
National ranking
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