GM Nikita Meshkovs Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. Full name Nikita Meshkovs Born 1/1/1994 (age 30) Place of birth Federation Latvia Profiles #422 World Ranking 2534 Classical 2544 Rapid 2540 Blitz 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 Show All Games