Jan Balje Full name Jan Balje Born 1973 (age 52) Place of birth Federation Netherlands Profiles #12800 World Ranking 2125 Classical Rating Bio Most Played Openings White Pieces Queen's Pawn Opening: English Rat Defense (4 games) Catalan Opening (4 games) Queen's Gambit Declined: Catalan Opening (3 games) English Opening: Anglo-Indian, King's Indian Defense (3 games) King's Indian Defense: Averbakh, Modern Defense (3 games) Black Pieces Alapin Sicilian Defense (9 games) Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (6 games) English Opening: Caro-Kann Defensive System (4 games) Caro-Kann Defense: Modern Variation (3 games) Slav Defense: Modern, Alapin Variation, Czech, Krause, Carlsbad, Morozevich Variation (2 games) Games Players Result Moves Year Jan Balje (2117) Paul Hommerson (2286) 0-1 20 2024 Nick Maatman (2362) Jan Balje (2127) 1-0 52 2023 Jan Balje (2190) Krishna C R G (2430) 0-1 26 2022 Sevan Buscara (2389) Jan Balje (2190) 1-0 45 2022 Jan Balje (2179) Jonas Hilwerda (2228) ½-½ 21 2019 Jan Balje (2211) A Tarassiouk (1976) ½-½ 28 2019 Jan Balje (2211) William Boudry (2033) 0-1 37 2019 Jan Balje (2211) Marcel Wubben (2018) 1-0 34 2019 Nick Maatman (2400) Jan Balje (2179) ½-½ 38 2019 Arno Bezemer (2243) Jan Balje (2211) 1-0 33 2019 Show All Games