Shankar BALAKRISHNAN
Shankar BALAKRISHNAN is an international chess player. Their classical Elo rating is 1656 points. Rapid Elo: 1641. +119 FIDE Elo points since 2025-03.
Identity
- FIDE number
- 2672340
- Country
- CAN
Elo rating
- Classical
- 1656
- Rapid
- 1641
- #2659 in the CAN federation in classical
- #803 in the CAN federation in rapid
Career in figures
Standard FIDE rating tracked since 03/2025: 1537 at the first record, 1656 at the latest, peaking at 1678 (03/2026).
19 tournaments listed on Grand Roque (2023-2026). Most frequent city: Ontario (18 tournaments). 106 recorded games, with an overall score of 44%.
Last 12 months
- Games
- 40
- Wins
- 16
- Draws
- 6
- Losses
- 18
- Score
- 48 %
- Average opponent Elo
- 1809
- Best win
- William Bi (1967) · SCC 2026 Alex Knox Memorial O1600
Elo history
- 2026-08 → 2026-10 · 1656
- 2026-06 → 2026-07 · 1635
- 2026-04 → 2026-05 · 1652
- 2026-03 · 1678
- 2026-01 → 2026-02 · 1645
- 2025-11 → 2025-12 · 1607
- 2025-08 → 2025-10 · 1509
- 2025-05 → 2025-07 · 1527
- 2025-03 → 2025-04 · 1537
Tournaments played
- SCC 2026 Alex Knox Memorial O1600 · Toronto (2026)
- SCC Club Championships 2026 O1600 · Ontario (2026)
- 2026 May C4W FF Rapid Open · Ontario (2026)
- Toronto Rapid Championship U1800 · Ontario (2026)
- SCC Winter Swiss 2026 O1600 · Ontario (2026)
- SCC Jack Frost Swiss O1600 · Ontario (2026)
- SCC Falling Leaves 2025 O1600 · Ontario (2025)
- SCC Howard Ridout Swiss O1600 · Ontario (2025)
- SCC Club Championship 2025 · Ontario (2025)
- SCC 2025 Winter Swiss Over 1600 · Ontario (2025)
- SCC FIDE Rated Winter Swiss · Ontario (2025)
- SCC Jack Frost FIDE Rated · Ontario (2025)
- SCC 2024 Falling Leaves O1400 · Ontario (2024)
- SCC Howard Rideout Memorial O1600 · Ontario (2024)
- Spring into Summer O1600 · Ontario (2024)
- SCC 2024 Club Ch Over 1600 · Ontario (2024)
- SCC 2024 Winter Swiss Over 1600 · Ontario (2024)
- SCC Jack Frost Over1600 · Ontario (2024)
- SCC Falling Leaves Over 1600 · Ontario (2023)
Recent games
- Arianna Yuan (1781) · 1 · SCC 2026 Alex Knox Memorial O1600 (2026)
- David Lawless (1986) · 0 · SCC 2026 Alex Knox Memorial O1600 (2026)
- David Southam (1978) · ½ · SCC 2026 Alex Knox Memorial O1600 (2026)
- William Bi (1967) · 1 · SCC 2026 Alex Knox Memorial O1600 (2026)
- Nima Allahyari (1670) · 0 · SCC Club Championships 2026 O1600 (2026)
- Yugansh Chahar (1715) · 0 · SCC Club Championships 2026 O1600 (2026)
- Cadiron Varakunan (2040) · ½ · SCC Club Championships 2026 O1600 (2026)
- Michael Blair (2097) · 0 · SCC Club Championships 2026 O1600 (2026)
- Hicham El Habboub (1793) · 0 · SCC Club Championships 2026 O1600 (2026)
- Mario Moran-Venegas (1765) · 1 · SCC Club Championships 2026 O1600 (2026)
- William Bi (2061) · ½ · SCC Club Championships 2026 O1600 (2026)
- Ian Gao (1394) · 1 · 2026 May C4W FF Rapid Open (2026)