Nikita Meshkovs

Nikita Meshkovs (Latvian: Ņikita Meškovs, Russian: Никита Евгеньевич Мешков; born 30 June 1994), is a Latvian chess grandmaster (2017). He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2018.[1].

Ņikita Meškovs
Ņikita Meshkovs, 2017
CountryLatvia
Born (1994-06-30) 30 June 1994
Riga, Latvia
TitleGrandmaster (2017)
FIDE rating2582 (August 2020)
Peak rating2574 (April 2019)

Biography

Meshkovs started playing chess at the age of four. At the age of six, he became a schoolboy 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]

Ņikita Meškovs played for Latvia:

In 2014, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title[16] and received the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title three years later.[17]

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References
  1. "Nikita Meshkovs and Elizabete Limanovska are the winners at Latvian Championship 2018 - Chessdom". www.chessdom.com.
  2. "«Игра, ставшая жизнью»". chessnews.lv.
  3. "Interview With Nikita Meshkovs - Latvian Chess News". www.chessnews.lv.
  4. "Interview with Nikita Meskovs". chessnews.lv.
  5. "Latvijas Šaha Federācija". www.sahafederacija.lv.
  6. http://chess-results.com, Dipl.Ing. Heinz Herzog -. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - U14 6. European Union Youth Championship". chess-results.com.
  7. http://chess-results.com, Dipl.Ing. Heinz Herzog -. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Latvian championship final-2015". chess-results.com.
  8. http://chess-results.com, Dipl.Ing. Heinz Herzog -. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Latvian championship final-2016". chess-results.com.
  9. http://chess-results.com, Dipl.Ing. Heinz Herzog -. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Latvian Championship final-2018". chess-results.com.
  10. http://chess-results.com, Dipl.Ing. Heinz Herzog -. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 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. http://chess-results.com, Dipl.Ing. Heinz Herzog -. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open". www.chess-results.com.
  14. 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open
  15. http://chess-results.com, Dipl.Ing. Heinz Herzog -. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 27 World Summer Universiade M". chess-results.com.
  16. Administrator. "FIDE Title Applications (GM, IM, WGM, WIM, IA, FA, IO)". ratings.fide.com.
  17. Administrator. "FIDE Title Applications (GM, IM, WGM, WIM, IA, FA, IO)". ratings.fide.com.
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