Arturs Neikšāns

Arturs Neikšāns
Arturs Neikšāns, European Rapid Chess Championship, Warsaw 2012
Country	Latvia
Born	(1983-03-16) March 16, 1983 Valka, Latvia
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2631 (December 2016)
Peak rating	2627[1] (June 2016)

Arturs Neikšāns (born March 16, 1983, Valka) is a Latvian chess Grandmaster (2012)^[2] and FIDE Trainer (2012).

He three times won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1999, 2011 and 2015. Arturs Neikšāns has been crowned a city champion of two cities: Valka in 1998 and Jelgava in 1999. He won in the Baltic Sea Junior Championship, held in Tallinn in 2001^[3] and Aivars Gipslis Memorial tournament, held in Riga in 2002. International Master from 2001. In 2010 he divided 3rd place in 15th Open Balaguer tournament (Spain).^[4]

Arturs Neikšāns played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads:^[5]

• In 2000, at first reserve board in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+5 −3 =2);
• In 2006, at first reserve board in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin (+3 −1 =1);
• In 2012, at third board in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+3 −3 =3);^[6]
• In 2014, at third board in the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø (+3 −2 =5);
• In 2016, at third board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku (+2 −1 =7).

Arturs Neikšāns played for Latvia in European Team Chess Championship:^[7]

• In 1999, at fourth board in Batumi (+2 −3 =4);
• In 2011, at third board in Porto Carras (+5 −2 =2);^[8]
• In 2015, at third board in Reykjavik (+3 −1 =3).

References

External links

• Arturs Neikšāns  player profile at chessgames.com
• Arturs Neikšāns  player profile at 365chess.com
• Arturs Neikšāns  player profile at chesstempo.com