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Normunds Miezis is a Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

n chess Grandmaster (1997).

Chess career

He won the Latvian Chess Championship

Latvian Chess Championship

-History:Professional level Latvian chess players have already appeared in the nineteenth century. They participated in chess tournaments and union congresses, organized by the Riga Chess Association. After the World War I, when Latvia became an independent country, official Latvian chess...

in 1991 and 2006. Played for Latvia in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. Other notable results include =1st with Eduardas Rozentalis

Eduardas Rozentalis

Eduardas Rozentalis is a Lithuanian chess grandmaster.He played for the Lithuanian team at first board in seven Chess Olympiads in 1992–98, and 2002–06....

, Sergey Ivanov, Tomi Nyback

Tomi Nyback

Tomi Nyback is a Finnish chess Grandmaster and poker player.-Chess career:He won the Finnish Championship in 2008. In 2009 he tied for 9th-11th with Mikhail Kobalia and Boris Grachev in the European Individual Chess Championship...

and Evgeny Postny

Evgeny Postny

Evgeny Postny is an Israeli chess player with the title of Grandmaster.-Junior success:As a junior player, he scored very well in international competitions such as the World and European Championships, taking three major medals;...

at Stockholm, Rilton Cup 2005/6, =6th with Slavko Cicak

Slavko Cicak

Slavko Cicak is a Swedish chess Grandmaster .He played for Sweden in the Chess Olympiads of 2006 and 2008. In 2005 he tied for 6th-9th with Normunds Miezis, Joel Benjamin and Alexander Baburin in the European Union Championship...

, Joel Benjamin

Joel Benjamin

Joel Benjamin is an American chess Grandmaster. In 1998, he was voted "Grandmaster of the Year" by the U.S. Chess Federation. , his Elo rating was 2576, making him the No. 12 player in the U.S. and the 214th-highest rated player in the world.-Life and career:Benjamin is a native of Brooklyn, New...

and Alexander Baburin

Alexander Baburin

Alexander Baburin is a Russian-Irish International Grandmaster of chess...

in the European Union Championship of 2005 and 2nd-3rd with Arturs Neikšāns

Arturs Neikšāns

Arturs Neikšāns is a Latvian chess International Master . He twice won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2001 and 2011. Arturs Neikšāns has been crowned a city champion of two cities - Valka in 1998 and Jelgava in 1999...

in Kaunas

Kaunas

Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation...

2009.

Chess strength

His best single performance was at Istanbul ol (Men), 2000

34th Chess Olympiad

The 34th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, took place between October 28 and November 12, 2000, in Istanbul, Turkey.- Chess competition :...

, where he scored 6.5 of 11 possible points (69%) against 2573-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2618.

In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2530, making him Latvia's number three.

Notable games

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