Arturs Neikšāns

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Arturs Neikšāns
Arturs neiksans 2019.jpg
Neiksans during the FIDE Grand Prix Riga stage, July 2019
Country Latvia
Born (1983-03-16) 16 March 1983 (age 38)
Valka, Latvia
TitleGrandmaster (2012)
FIDE rating2571 (December 2021)
Peak rating2631[1] (December 2016)

Arturs Neiksans (Latvian: Arturs Neikšāns, Russian: Артур Нейкшанс, born 16 March 1983) is a Latvian chess player who has held the FIDE title of Grandmaster since 2012. He is a four-time Latvian champion, one of the leading Latvian chess players, an FIDE accredited chess trainer,[2] author and a commentator of high level chess tournaments.

Biography[]

Born in Valka (a small Latvian bordertown with Estonia), Arturs Neiksans started to play chess relatively late, already being 9 years old. At age 16 he received the title of a national master and at age 18 – international master. In 1999 being only 16 years old Neiksans won the Latvian Chess Championship, thus becoming the youngest ever Latvian champion. He beat Mikhail Tal's record, which was set in 1953, by several months.

After graduating from high school, Neiksans pretty much left competitive chess, pursuing career instead, and after receiving MBA Master's degree in Public Relations, he mostly worked in the field of communications, most notably the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science,[3] and later also at the newspaper "Jelgavas Vestnesis". At age 27 there was a sudden change of career perspective as in the autumn of 2010 he was offered the position of head chess coach in the Riga Chess School. Thus he continued the interrupted work of the legendary Latvian grandmaster Janis Klovans who had just died at an age of 75.

Everyday work with chess for then international master Neiksans also gave an opportunity for personal improvement. He needed slightly more than one year to get all of the required 3 grandmaster norms, thus getting the coveted title at an age of 28[4] which for professional chess players is considered to be quite late. In 2012 he received the FIDE trainer's title as well, and in 2016 his ELO rating peaked at 2631.

Personal achievements[]

  • Four times Latvian champion (1999, 2011, 2015, 2019)
  • Summer Chess Classic C tournament, USA – 1st place (2019)[5]
  • Ilmar Raud Memorial, Estonia - 1st place (2015,[6] 2020[7])
  • President's 2nd Cup, Riga – 1st place (2019)[8]
  • RTU Open 2016 A tournament, Riga – shared 1st place, 3rd in tiebreaks (2016)[9]
  • Liepaja Rokade 2016, super tournament, Liepaja – shared 1st place, 2nd in tiebreaks[10]
  • 5th Vladimir Petrov memorial, Jurmala shared 1st place with Vassily Ivanchuk, Loek van Wely and Alexander Shabalov, 4th in tiebreaks[11]
  • 9th Wunsiedel Chess Festival, Germany – 1st place (2015)[12]
  • Liepaja Rokade 2009, open tournament, Liepaja - 1st place (2009)[13]
  • Six times played for the national team of Latvia in the World Chess Olympiads (2000, 2006, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
  • Two times played for the national team of Latvia in European Team Chess Championships (1999, 2011)
  • Participant of FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss (2021)[14]

Coaching[]

From 2010 to 2021 Arturs Neiksans was the head coach at Riga Chess School,[15] on a daily basis working with the most talented Latvian youngsters, among them Nikita Meshkovs, Toms Kantans, Laura Rogule, Katrina Amerika (Skinke), Elizabete Limanovska, Dmitrijs Tokranovs and others. Many of them later would become grandmasters themselves and the core of the Latvian national team.[citation needed] He left the job in late October of 2021 just before the start of FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss.

Neiksans still does coaching, providing private lessons.[16]

Author[]

In 2018 Neiksans started a collaboration with one of the leading online chess education portals Modern Chess, producing four popular theoretical databases:

  • Moscow Variation against the Sicilian - Complete Repertoire against 2...d6.[17]
  • Rossolimo Variation against the Sicilian - Complete Repertoire against 2...Nc6[18]
  • Baltic variation against the Sicilian - Complete Repertoire against 2...e6 and sidelines[19]
  • Positional Repertoire against the Caro-Kann[20]

In late July of 2021 Chessable published the first lesson course by Arturs Neiksans: Lifetime Repertoires - Reversed Sicilian, proving a complete repertoire for Black against English opening. [21]

Commentary and streaming[]

In parallel to other activities Arturs Neiksans has also become a chess commentator for high level international tournaments, both in English and Russian languages:

Since the April of 2020 Arturs Neiksans has also become a streamer on Twitch, regularly streaming several times a week.[28]

References[]

  1. ^ "FIDE Chess ratings". ratings.fide.com.
  2. ^ "Neiksans, Arturs FIDE Chess Profile - Players Arbiters Trainers". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Sākums". Izglītības un zinātnes ministrija (in Latvian). Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  4. ^ "List of titles approved by the 1st quarter PB 2012, Al-Ain, UAE". fide.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Pairings & Results | C | www.uschesschamps.com". uschesschamps.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Ilmar Raud Memorial". chess-results.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Ilmar Raud Memorial Tournament". chess-results.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - II Latvian Chess Federation President Blitz cup -2019 26.01". chess-results.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  9. ^ "«RTU Open 2016» uzvar Ukrainas pārstāvis Martins Kravtsivs | Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte". rtu.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  10. ^ "Latvijas Šaha Federācija". sahafederacija.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Loek Van Wely wins Vladimir Petrov Memorial on tie-break | Chessdom". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  12. ^ "GM Neiksans Arturs gewinnt Wunsiedel Schachfestival 2015". steffans-schachseiten.de. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  13. ^ ""Liepājas rokādē" uzvar Artūrs Neikšāns". liepajniekiem.lv. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  14. ^ "Open Event Participants – FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2021". Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Par mums". sahaskola.lv. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  16. ^ "GM Arturs Neiksans coaches chess students". lichess.org. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  17. ^ "Moscow Variation against the Sicilian - Complete Repertoire against 2...d6". modern-chess.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  18. ^ "Rossolimo Variation against the Sicilian - Complete Repertoire against 2...Nc6". modern-chess.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  19. ^ "Anti-Sicilian Repertoire - 2...e6 and Sidelines". modern-chess.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  20. ^ "Positional Repertoire against the Caro-Kann". www.modern-chess.com. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  21. ^ "Lifetime Repertoires: Reversed Sicilian". www.chessable.com. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  22. ^ "Grischuk Wins ACP Chess Rapid Knockout 2013 in Riga". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  23. ^ Doggers (PeterDoggers), Peter. "3059 Performance For Ivanchuk at Latvian Railway Open". Chess.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  24. ^ European ChessTV (12 April 2017), Round 2 - European Women's Chess Championship 2017, retrieved 25 July 2019
  25. ^ "Grand Prix 2019". worldchess.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  26. ^ "Biel International Chess Festival". www.bielchessfestival.ch. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  27. ^ RTU Open 2021 - Round 9 (final), retrieved 2 December 2021
  28. ^ "Twitch". Twitch. Retrieved 4 August 2020.

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