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Nikita Meshkovs
Meshkovs in 2017
CountryLatvia
Born (1994-06-30) 30 June 1994 (age 30)
Riga, Latvia
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2534 (December 2024)
Peak rating2586 (March 2023)

Nikita Evgenievich Meshkovs (Template:Lang-lv, Template:Lang-ru; born 30 June 1994) is a Latvian chess grandmaster (2017). He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2018.[1]

Biography

Meshkovs started playing chess at the age of four. At the age of six, he became a student at the Riga Chess School. His first coach was Leonīds Borisovs.[2][3] He won six Latvian Junior Chess Championships in different age groups, and regularly participated in the European Youth and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups.[4][5] In 2008, in Mureck he won the European Union U14 chess championship.[6] Since 2011, he has regularly participated in the Latvian Chess Championships, placing third in 2015,[7] second in 2016,[8] and winning the competition in 2018.[9] In June 2018, in Palanga he won Baltic Zonal Tournament second stage.[10] In 2019, he won the A-Group Northwest Cup Final on tie-break from Vadim Moiseenko.[11] In 2020, he won the Panevezys International Chess Festival.[12]

In July 2021, in Sochi he participated in Chess World Cup 2021 and lost in 1st round to Paraguayan grandmaster Guillermo Vázquez.[13]

In October 2022, he drew against world champion Magnus Carlsen in the first round of the European Chess Club Cup, which was Carlsen's first classical match after the Carlsen-Niemann controversy.

Nikita Meshkovs played for Latvia:

In 2014, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title[17] and received the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title three years later.[18]

References

  1. ^ "Nikita Meshkovs and Elizabete Limanovska are the winners at Latvian Championship 2018". Chessdom.com.
  2. ^ ""Игра, ставшая жизнью"". chessnews.lv. Archived from the original on 2017-07-28. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  3. ^ "Interview With Nikita Meshkovs - Latvian Chess News". chessnews.lv.
  4. ^ "Interview with Nikita Meskovs". chessnews.lv. Archived from the original on 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  5. ^ "Latvijas Šaha Federācija". sahafederacija.lv.
  6. ^ Herzog, Heinz. "U14 6. European Union Youth Championship". Chess-Results.com.
  7. ^ Herzog, Heinz. "Latvian championship final-2015". Chess-Results.com.
  8. ^ Herzog, Heinz. "Latvian championship final-2016". Chess-Results.com.
  9. ^ Herzog, Heinz. "Latvian Championship final-2018". Chess-Results.com.
  10. ^ Herzog, Heinz. "2018 Baltic Zonal Tournament II Stage". Chess-Results.com.
  11. ^ "The Week in Chess 1311". TheWeekInChess.com. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  12. ^ "The Week in Chess 1339". TheWeekInChess.com. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  13. ^ FIDE World Cup 2021. worldcup.fide.com.
  14. ^ Herzog, Heinz. "42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open". Chess-Results.com.
  15. ^ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open. Chess-Results.com.
  16. ^ Herzog, Heinz. "27 World Summer Universiade M". Chess-Results.com.
  17. ^ "FIDE Title Applications - International Master (IM) - Meskovs, Nikita". ratings.fide.com.
  18. ^ "FIDE Title Applications - Grandmaster (GM) - Meskovs, Nikita". ratings.fide.com.
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