Nikita Evgenievich Meshkovs (Latvian: Ņikita Meškovs, Russian: Никита Евгеньевич Мешков; born 30 June 1994) is a Latvian chess grandmaster (2017). He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2018.^[1]

Meshkovs started playing chess at the age of four. At the age of six, he became a student at the Riga Chess School. His first coach was Leonīds Borisovs.^[2][3] He won six Latvian Junior Chess Championships in different age groups, and regularly participated in the European Youth and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups.^[4][5] In 2008, in Mureck he won the European Union U14 chess championship.^[6] Since 2011, he has regularly participated in the Latvian Chess Championships, placing third in 2015,^[7] second in 2016,^[8] and winning the competition in 2018.^[9] In June 2018, in Palanga he won Baltic Zonal Tournament second stage.^[10] In 2019, he won the A-Group Northwest Cup Final on tie-break from Vadim Moiseenko.^[11] In 2020, he won the Panevezys International Chess Festival.^[12]

In July 2021, in Sochi he participated in Chess World Cup 2021 and lost in 1st round to Paraguayan grandmaster Guillermo Vázquez.^[13]

In October 2022, he drew against world champion Magnus Carlsen in the first round of the European Chess Club Cup, which was Carlsen's first classical match after the Carlsen-Niemann controversy.

Nikita Meshkovs played for Latvia:

• in Chess Olympiads (2016, 2018);^[14][15]
• in 2013 Summer Universiade chess tournament.^[16]

In 2014, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title^[17] and received the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title three years later.^[18]