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GM Nikita Meshkovs

Nikita Meshkovs

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Full name

Nikita Meshkovs

Born

1994 (age 30)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Latvia

Rating

Bio

Nikita Meshkovs is a Latvian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation (36 games)

English Opening: Symmetrical Variation (17 games)

Queen's Gambit Declined: Catalan Opening (17 games)

King's Indian Attack: Yugoslav Variation (15 games)

English Opening: Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto Line (12 games)

Black Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (28 games)

Alapin Sicilian Defense (21 games)

Sicilian Defense: Kan, Modern Variation (20 games)

Sicilian Defense: Kan, Knight Variation (12 games)

Queen's Pawn Opening: Chigorin Variation (9 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Nikita Meshkovs (2523) Filipp Obolonin (2033)	1-0	33	2024
Nikita Meshkovs (2523) Georg Aleksander Pedoson (2306)	1-0	42	2024
Nikita Meshkovs (2547) Aydin Elshan Suleymanli (2617)	1-0	69	2024
Nikita Meshkovs (2543) Vasif Durarbayli (2653)	1-0	50	2024
Nikita Meshkovs (2527) Constantin Lupulescu (2661)	1-0	64	2024
Nikita Meshkovs (2538) Mikhail Al Antipov (2653)	1-0	61	2024
Nikita Meshkovs (2554) Emin Ohanyan (2493)	1-0	51	2024
Nikita Meshkovs (2554) Bogdan-Daniel Deac (2626)	1-0	38	2024
Nikita Meshkovs (2532) Mihail Saltaev (2442)	1-0	44	2024
Nikita Meshkovs (2532) Gustav Torngren (2276)	1-0	34	2024

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