Marija Kuznecova

Marija Kuznecova (born 2010) is a Latvian chess player who holds the title of FIDE Master. She won the Latvian Women Chess Championship in 2025 adn 2026.

Biography Marija Kuznecova is a student of Riga Chess School. She is multiple winner of Latvian Youth Chess Championships in various girls' age groups: in 2019 in the G10 age group, 2020 in the G10 age group, 2024 in the G14 age group, 2025 in the G16 age group.

She has represented Latvia several times at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships. In 2018, she ranked in 7th place in the girls' G8 age group at the World Youth Chess Championship. In the same year, at the European Youth Chess Championship held in Riga, she took the highest place among all Latvian participants, when she ranked 14th in the girls' G8 age group. In 2019, she placed 15th at the World Youth Chess Championship in the girls' G10 age group. In 2024, she was 9th in the European Youth Chess Championship in the girls' G14 age group. In October 2025, Durrës she won a silver medal in the girls' G16 age group at the World Youth Chess Championship.

Since 2019, she has regularly participated in the Latvian Women's Chess Championships, in which she has always placed in the top eight after her debut. Her best result in this competition was in 2025, when she became the youngest winner in the history of the Latvian Chess Championships. She repeated this success in 2026.

In 2023, at the age of 13, she became the first FIDE Candidate Master (WCM) in Latvia. A year later, at the age of 14, she became a FIDE Master (WFM).