Nikita Meshkovs Explained

Nikita Meshkovs
Country:Latvia
Birth Date:1994 6, df=y
Birth Place:Riga, Latvia
Grandmaster (2017)
Peakrating:2586 (March 2023)
Fideid:11602740

Nikita Evgenievich Meshkovs (lv|Ņikita Meškovs, ru|Никита Евгеньевич Мешков; 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[18] and received the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title three years later.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nikita Meshkovs and Elizabete Limanovska are the winners at Latvian Championship 2018 . Chessdom.com.
  2. Web site: "Игра, ставшая жизнью". chessnews.lv. 2018-05-08. 2017-07-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20170728082511/http://chessnews.lv/igra/. dead.
  3. Web site: Interview With Nikita Meshkovs - Latvian Chess News. chessnews.lv.
  4. Web site: Interview with Nikita Meskovs. chessnews.lv. 2018-05-08. 2018-01-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20180116110348/http://chessnews.lv/interview-with-nikita-meskovs/. dead.
  5. Web site: Latvijas Šaha Federācija. sahafederacija.lv.
  6. Web site: U14 6. European Union Youth Championship. Heinz. Herzog. Chess-Results.com.
  7. Web site: Latvian championship final-2015. Heinz. Herzog. Chess-Results.com.
  8. Web site: Latvian championship final-2016. Heinz. Herzog. Chess-Results.com.
  9. Web site: Latvian Championship final-2018. Heinz. Herzog. Chess-Results.com.
  10. Web site: 2018 Baltic Zonal Tournament II Stage. Heinz. Herzog. Chess-Results.com.
  11. Web site: The Week in Chess 1311. 2020-07-09. TheWeekInChess.com.
  12. Web site: The Week in Chess 1339. 2020-07-09. TheWeekInChess.com.
  13. https://worldcup.fide.com/ FIDE World Cup 2021
  14. Web site: 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Open. Heinz. Herzog. Chess-Results.com.
  15. http://chess-results.com/tnr368908.aspx?lan=1&art=20&fed=LAT&flag=30 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open
  16. https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.aspx?lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=42 45th Chess Olympiad Budapest 2024 Open
  17. Web site: 27 World Summer Universiade M. Heinz. Herzog. Chess-Results.com.
  18. Web site: FIDE Title Applications - International Master (IM) - Meskovs, Nikita. ratings.fide.com.
  19. Web site: FIDE Title Applications - Grandmaster (GM) - Meskovs, Nikita . ratings.fide.com.

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