Csaba Balogh

Csaba Balogh (born 10 March 1987 in Budapest) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster.

Chess career Balogh was taught how to play chess by his father, when he was six years old. At the age of eight, he began training with IM Böröcz István, who took Balogh to his first tournament the following year.

He won the European Under-16 Championship in 2003. In the same year, Balogh was a member of the Hungarian national team that won both the U-16 Chess Olympiad and the European U-18 Team Chess Championship.

In 2006 he finished second in the Hungarian Chess Championship.

In 2011 he tied for 2nd-5th with Parimarjan Negi, Murtas Kazhgaleyev and Jon Ludvig Hammer in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship. Balogh won the Casino de Barcelona round-robin tournament in 2013 and 2014.

He was a member of the silver medal-winning Hungarian team in the 2014 Chess Olympiad. He also won the individual silver on board two thanks to his rating performance of 2839.

Balogh competed in the Chess World Cup 2015: he knocked out Eltaj Safarli in the first round, then he lost to Wesley So in round two and was eliminated from the competition.

In the 2015–2016 season Balogh became Dutch champion with En Passant.

Divya Deshmukh credited Balogh for her preparation as one of her seconds during the Women's Chess World Cup 2025, which she won.

Sample games This game Balogh says is one of his "most memorable". It was played against Viktor Korchnoi at the 5th Gyorgy Marx Memorial (2007). As white, Balogh played the Ruy Lopez, Open Defence (C80).

The game features Balogh playing black in a Slav Defense. This was played against Tomi Nybäck at the 2008 Najdorf Memorial tournament, dedicated to the memory of Miguel Najdorf and organized by the Warsaw Chess Foundation.