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..

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. 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. In 2008, in Mureck he won the European Union U14 chess championship. Since 2011, he has regularly participated in the Latvian Chess Championships, placing third in 2015, second in 2016, and winning the competition in 2018. In June 2018, in Palanga he won Baltic Zonal Tournament second stage. In 2019, he won the A-Group Northwest Cup Final on tie-break from Vadim Moiseenko. In 2020, he won the Panevezys International Chess Festival.

Ņikita Meškovs played for Latvia:

• in Chess Olympiads (2016, 2018);
• in 2013 Summer Universiade chess tournament.

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