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Pavlovs, Nikita
🇱🇻FIDE 11605855· Male· Latvia· Born in 2002
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Nikita Pavlovs, a 24-year-old Latvian player, is rated 1996. He has fluctuated between 1908 and 2041 over the past 2 years. 41 rated games in the past year (≈20/year long-term). Recent standard appearances include Latvijas 2026. gada pusfinals, Jurmala Chess open-2026, and Iesildisanas Cesim 2026 Clasic. Also played 9 rapid (including IV Chess Festival Cesis 2025 Rapid (and standard)) and 6 blitz events (including GM Sveshnikov Evgeny blitz memorial-2026) recently. He had 2 career breaks: 16 months (2017–2018) and 33 months (2019–2022, COVID-19 included). His peak of 2041 was reached at age 24 (Jan 2026, Latvian #50 at the time).
At junior level, he reached #6, #7, #19, #10 and #16 nationally in U20, U18, U16, U14 and U12.
Current rating
1996
Standard
Rpd2043·Blz1958
All-time high
2041
−45 pts below
Jan 2026 · age 24
Jan 2026 · age 24
Activity
37
games / yr avg. · ≈3/mo
32 past 12 mo · ≈3/mo
classical only
Active
classical only
Active
Signature stat
#28,128
#28,128 · players worldwide · of 218,279
Career timeline
16 entries2026
Peak Latvian rank: #50
at age 24 · rated 2041
Jan 2026
All-time peak 2041
at age 24 · −45 from today
Jan 2026
2025
Crossed 2000
at age 23
Jun 2025
2021
6th Latvian U20 player
at age 19 · rated 1944
Nov 2021
K-factor lowered to 20
at age 19
Jan 2021
2020
7th Latvian U18 player
at age 18 · rated 1944
Oct 2020
Standard rating history
Peak
FIDE title
Threshold
First rated
Inactive period
COVID-19
FIDE recal.
Activity & highlights
Top opponent
Evolution
-26
2022 → 1996
Tournaments
5
39 games
Score
19.5/ 3950.0%
21W5D13L
Top 3 wins
Top 3 losses
Last 12 months — tournaments
5 events| Event | Date | Score | Rank | Perf | Δ Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Open Swiss | Apr 2026 | 4.5/8 | #32 | 1995 | -25.4 |
Swiss | Feb 2026 | 5/6 | #4 | 2166 | -2.6 |
Swiss | Jan 2026 | 1/4 | #15 | 1885 | -16.6 |
Swiss | Dec 2025 | 6.5/9 | #2 | 2087 | +18.4 |
Open Swiss | Jun 2025 | 2.5/5 | #40 | 2015 | -3.0 |
Most-Played Opponents
vsUldis Melderis
🇱🇻LAT·1892
+9 −13 =7
29 games·last met Mar 2026
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vsAivars Laizans
🇱🇻LAT·1934
+2 −16 =5
23 games·last met Sep 2025
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vsKonstantins Gudovskis
🇱🇻LAT·2005
+1 −10 =7
18 games·last met Dec 2025
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vsVija Zalcmane
🇱🇻LAT·1572
+13 −0 =1
14 games·last met Mar 2026
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vsVitaly LevchenkovFM
🇱🇻LAT
+4 −8 =2
14 games·last met Nov 2023
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Rankings
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Latvia
#63
out of 965 players
Europe
#20,785
in continent
World
#28,128
out of 400,000+
National ranking
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