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Arturs Neikšāns
Birth Date:1983 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Valka, Latvia
Grandmaster (2012)
Peakrating:2631 (December 2016)[1]
Fideid:11601388

Arturs Neiksans (Latvian: Arturs Neikšāns, 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), Neiksans started to play chess relatively late for an eventual grandmaster, being 9 years old upon learning the game. At age 16, he received the title of a national master, and at age 18 he was ranked as an 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 essentially left competitive chess, and after receiving an 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] He later also worked at the newspaper Jelgavas Vestnesis. At age 27, he was offered the position of head chess coach in the Riga Chess School. He continued the interrupted work of the legendary Latvian grandmaster Janis Klovans, who had just died at the age of 75. Every day, Neiksans, who was still an IM at the time, would work on his chess. He needed slightly more than one year to get all of the required three grandmaster norms, thus getting the coveted title at the 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

Coaching

From 2010 to 2021, Arturs Neikšāns 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 Kantāns, 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. He left the job in late October 2021 just before the start of FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss.

Neiksans still does coaching, providing private lessons.[16] He is currently coaching YouTuber Levy Rozman, also known as GothamChess.[17]

Author

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

Right after Neiksans switched to writing courses for Chessable, publishing his first course in July 2021. Ever since he's produced a total of four theoretical courses.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIDE Chess ratings . ratings.fide.com.
  2. Web site: Neiksans, Arturs FIDE Chess Profile – Players Arbiters Trainers . ratings.fide.com . 2019-07-25.
  3. Web site: Sākums . Izglītības un zinātnes ministrija . lv-lv . 2019-07-25.
  4. Web site: List of titles approved by the 1st quarter PB 2012, Al-Ain, UAE . fide.com . 2019-07-25.
  5. Web site: Pairings & Results C www.uschesschamps.com. uschesschamps.com. 2019-07-25.
  6. Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – Ilmar Raud Memorial . 2020-08-04 . chess-results.com.
  7. Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – Ilmar Raud Memorial Tournament . 2020-08-04 . chess-results.com.
  8. Web site: Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - II Latvian Chess Federation President Blitz cup -2019 26.01. . chess-results.com . 2019-07-25.
  9. Web site: «RTU Open 2016» uzvar Ukrainas pārstāvis Martins Kravtsivs Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte. rtu.lv. lv. 2019-07-25.
  10. Web site: Latvijas Šaha Federācija . sahafederacija.lv . lv . 2019-07-25.
  11. Web site: Loek Van Wely wins Vladimir Petrov Memorial on tie-break Chessdom. 7 March 2016 . 2019-07-25.
  12. Web site: GM Neiksans Arturs gewinnt Wunsiedel Schachfestival 2015 . steffans-schachseiten.de . 2019-07-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170408094609/http://www.steffans-schachseiten.de/include.php?path=news . 2017-04-08 . dead.
  13. Web site: "Liepājas rokādē" uzvar Artūrs Neikšāns . liepajniekiem.lv . 2019-07-25 . 24 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190724095644/https://www.liepajniekiem.lv/sports/citi/liepajas-rokade-uzvar-arturs-neiksans-31725 . dead .
  14. Web site: Open Event Participants – FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2021 . 2021-12-02 .
  15. Web site: Par mums . sahaskola.lv . 2019-07-25 . 24 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190724095646/http://www.sahaskola.lv/index.php/par-mums . dead .
  16. Web site: GM Arturs Neiksans coaches chess students . 2021-12-02 . lichess.org . en-US.
  17. https://www.chessbase.in/news/Levy-Rozman-on-his-first-victory
  18. Web site: Moscow Variation against the Sicilian – Complete Repertoire against 2...d6 . modern-chess.com . 2019-07-25.
  19. Web site: Rossolimo Variation against the Sicilian – Complete Repertoire against 2...Nc6 . modern-chess.com . 2019-07-25.
  20. Web site: Anti-Sicilian Repertoire – 2...e6 and Sidelines . modern-chess.com . 2019-07-25.
  21. Web site: Positional Repertoire against the Caro-Kann . 2020-11-13 . www.modern-chess.com .
  22. Web site: Lifetime Repertoires: Reversed Sicilian . 2021-12-02 . www.chessable.com .
  23. Web site: Lifetime Repertoires: Kan Sicilian - Chessable . 2024-04-16 . www.chessable.com . en.
  24. Web site: 2023-02-02 . Announcing the 3rd Annual Chessable Awards - Chessable Blog . 2024-04-16 . en-GB.
  25. Web site: 100 Repertoires: King's Indian Attack - Chessable . 2024-04-16 . www.chessable.com . en.
  26. Web site: Leningrad Dutch: Simplified - Chessable . 2024-04-16 . www.chessable.com . en.

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