GMNikita Meshkovs

Nikita Meshkovs was born in Riga in 1994 and began chess at four. At six he joined the Riga Chess School, where Leonīds Borisovs was his first coach. He won six Latvian junior titles across different age groups and the European Union under-14 championship in 2008. He became an international master in 2014 and a grandmaster in 2017.

After bronze and silver in earlier national championships, Meshkovs won the Latvian title in 2018. That year he also won the Palanga stage of the Baltic zonal competition. He won the 2020 Panevėžys International Festival and competed in the 2021 World Cup. His national-team career included the 2016, 2018 and 2024 Olympiads.