Arturs Neikšāns

Arturs Neikšāns
Neiksans during the FIDE Grand Prix Riga stage, July 2019
Country Latvia
Born (1983-03-16) 16 March 1983 (age 41)
Valka, Latvia
TitleGrandmaster (2012)
FIDE rating2566 (January 2025)
Peak rating2631 (December 2016)[1]

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 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.[citation needed] 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 coached YouTuber and International Master 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:

  • Moscow Variation against the Sicilian – Complete Repertoire against 2...d6[18]
  • Rossolimo Variation against the Sicilian – Complete Repertoire against 2...Nc6[19]
  • Baltic variation against the Sicilian – Complete Repertoire against 2...e6 and sidelines[20]
  • Positional Repertoire against the Caro-Kann[21]

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.

  • Lifetime Repertoires: Reversed Sicilian [22]
  • Lifetime Repertoires: Kan Sicilian (co-authored by Igor Kovalenko)[23], nominated for Chessable Awards 2022[24]
  • 100 Repertoires: King's Indian Attack, nominated for Chessable Awards 2023[25]
  • Leningrad Dutch: Simplified[26]

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". 7 March 2016. 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. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  14. ^ "Open Event Participants – FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2021". Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Par mums". sahaskola.lv. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  16. ^ "GM Arturs Neiksans coaches chess students". lichess.org. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  17. ^ "Levy Rozman's first tournament victory on his "Road to GM" journey - ChessBase India". 31 July 2024.
  18. ^ "Moscow Variation against the Sicilian – Complete Repertoire against 2...d6". modern-chess.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  19. ^ "Rossolimo Variation against the Sicilian – Complete Repertoire against 2...Nc6". modern-chess.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  20. ^ "Anti-Sicilian Repertoire – 2...e6 and Sidelines". modern-chess.com. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  21. ^ "Positional Repertoire against the Caro-Kann". www.modern-chess.com. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  22. ^ "Lifetime Repertoires: Reversed Sicilian". www.chessable.com. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  23. ^ "Lifetime Repertoires: Kan Sicilian - Chessable". www.chessable.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  24. ^ "Announcing the 3rd Annual Chessable Awards - Chessable Blog". 2 February 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  25. ^ "100 Repertoires: King's Indian Attack - Chessable". www.chessable.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  26. ^ "Leningrad Dutch: Simplified - Chessable". www.chessable.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.

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