Viesturs Meijers

Viesturs Meijers
Meijers in 2007
Country Latvia
Born(1967-12-05)5 December 1967
Limbaži, Latvian SSR, USSR
Died9 November 2024(2024-11-09) (aged 56)
TitleGrandmaster (2004–2024)
FIDE rating2421 (November 2024)
Peak rating2529 (January 2006)

Viesturs Meijers (5 December 1967 – 9 November 2024) was a Latvian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (2004). He starting playing chess at age 10 and his first trainer was I. Dambitis. Meijers became an International Master in 1993 and won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2000. From 1989 to 2010, he participated in more than 80 international tournaments.