1. John Denis Martin Nunn was born on 25 April 1955 and is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician.
19 Facts About John Nunn
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John Nunn is one of England's strongest chess players and was formerly in the world's top ten.
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At the time, Nunn was Oxford's youngest undergraduate since Cardinal Wolsey in 1520.
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In 1978, John Nunn spent a year teaching Mathematics at Maidstone Grammar School, before returning to Oxford as a mathematics lecturer until 1981, when he became a professional chess player.
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John Nunn gained the Grandmaster title in 1978 and was British champion in 1980.
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John Nunn has twice won individual gold medals at Chess Olympiads.
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John Nunn achieved his highest Elo rating of 2630 in January 1995.
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John Nunn has now retired from serious tournament play and, until he resurfaced as a player in two Veterans events in 2014 and 2015, had not played a FIDE-rated game since August 2006; however, he has been active in the ECF rapid play.
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John Nunn has penned many books, including Secrets of Grandmaster Chess, which won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year award in 1988, and John Nunn's Best Games, which took the award in 1995.
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John Nunn is the director of chess publishers Gambit Publications.
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John Nunn is involved with chess problems, composing several examples and solving as part of the British team on several occasions.
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John Nunn won the World Chess Solving Championship in Halkidiki, Greece, in September 2004 and made his final GM norm in problem solving.
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John Nunn is the third person ever to gain both over-the-board and solving GM titles.
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John Nunn is thus the foremost data miner of chess endgame tablebases.
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John Nunn finished third in the World Senior Chess Championship of 2014 in Katerini, Greece, second in the European Senior Chess Championship of 2015 in Eretria, Greece, and first in the World Senior Chess Championship in Assisi, Italy in 2022.
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John Nunn was the winner again in 2023, at Terrasini.
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John Nunn is married to Petra Fink-John Nunn, a German chess player with the title Woman FIDE Master.
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Coincident with a reduction in his over-the-board chess, John Nunn has developed a passion for astronomy, a hobby he shares with ex-world chess champion Viswanathan Anand.
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John Nunn has various articles and lectures published in Chessbase News.