Arturs Neikšāns

Arturs Neikšāns
Arturs Neikšāns
	Arturs Neikšāns, European Rapid Chess Championship, Warsaw 2012
Country	Latvia
Born	March 16, 1983 (age 41); Valka, Latvia
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2575 (May 2024)
Peak rating	2537 (August 2012)

Arturs Neikšāns (born March 16, 1983, Valka) is a Latvian chess Grandmaster (2012)^[2] and FIDE Trainer (2012).

He twice won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1999 and 2011. Arturs Neikšāns has been crowned a city champion of two cities: Valka in 1998 and Jelgava in 1999. He won in the Baltic Sea Junior Championship, held in Tallinn in 2001^[3] and Aivars Gipslis Memorial tournament, held in Riga in 2002. International Master from 2001. In 2010 he divided 3rd place in 15th Open Balaguer tournament (Spain).^[4]

Arturs Neikšāns played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads:^[5]

In 2000, at first reserve board in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+5 −3 =2);
In 2006, at first reserve board in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin (+3 −1 =1);
In 2012, at third board in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+3 −3 =3);^[6]
In 2014, at third board in the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø (+3 −2 =5).

Arturs Neikšāns played for Latvia in European Team Chess Championship:^[7]

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