Arturs Bernotas (born 1 June 1995) is a Latvian chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2015.
Biography Bernotas came to the Riga chess school in 2004. His first coach was Leonid Borisov, and he later trained with Jānis Klovāns and Arturs Neikšāns. In 2011, Bernotas won the Latvian Youth Championship and the European youth chess rapid championship in the age group U16.11th individual European youth chess rapid championship – B16 In 2014, he won the chess festival Riga Technical University Open B tournament.Riga Technical University Open 2014 - Tournament B In 2016, Bernotas won the Riga chess championship.Riga 2016th chess championship In March 2017 in Vilnius, he fulfilled his first norm for the International Master (IM) title in the second stage of the Baltic Zonal tournament.Baltic Zonal Tournament FIDE Presidential K.Ilyumzhinov Cup’s Vilnius Stage From 2008 on, Bernotas regularly participated in Latvian Chess Championship finals. Bernotas won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2017 and fulfilled his second norm for the International Master title.Latvian championship final-2017
Arturs Bernotas played for Latvia in Chess Olympiads: in 2018, at the reserve board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi (+2 −2 =3).43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open
He graduated from Riga secondary school No. 54 and studied at the University of Latvia.
Coaching Bernotas is also an active chess coach. According to an interview, he currently works with up-and-coming players Daniels Milovs, Maksims Aminovs, and Vadims Kolosovs.
Aspirations In a 2019 interview, Bernotas stated his intention to eventually achieve the title of Grandmaster. He claimed to be frustrated with his "lack of progress", and aspired to intensify his training in order to eventually find success.
References
External links
Arturs Bernotas chess games at 365Chess.com