Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A na-ewere Balinas dị ka onye egwuregwu Asia kachasị ike n'oge 1960 na 1970, tupu mpụta nke onye obodo ya bụ Eugenio Torre. Balinas meriri asọmpi egwuregwu mba ụwa na Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila, na Odessa, USSR n'oge ahụ. N'afọ 1966
Na 17th Chess Olympiad na Havana, Cuba, Balinas nwetara akara 151⁄2 n'ime egwuregwu 20 (.775) wee nye ya onyinye ọla ọcha nke onye ọ bụla, n'azụ onye mmeri ọla edo, onye bụbu onye mmeri ụwa Mikhail Tal, onye nwetara akara 11 n'ime egwuregwu 13 (.846). Na 1967 Meralco "Beat Bobby Fischer" usoro egwuregwu na Manila, nke ndị egwuregwu 10 kacha elu na Philippines, Balinas bụ naanị onye isi mba Philippines n'oge ahụ ijide onye mmeri ụwa n'ọdịnihu ka ọ bụrụ ihe efu: