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John Nunn was born on 25 April, 1955 in London, England, is an English chess player. Discover John Nunn's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 25 April 1955
Birthday 25 April
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1520

At the time, Nunn was Oxford's youngest undergraduate since Cardinal Wolsey in 1520.

1955

John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician.

He is one of England's strongest chess players and was formerly in the world's top ten.

Nunn was born in London.

1967

As a junior, he showed a prodigious talent for chess and in 1967, at 12 years of age, he won the British under-14 Championship.

1969

At 14, he was London Under-18 Champion for the 1969–70 season and less than a year later, at just 15 years of age, he proceeded to Oriel College, Oxford, to read Mathematics.

1973

Graduating in 1973, he went on to gain a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1978 with a thesis on finite H-spaces, supervised by John Hubbuck.

1975

In 1975, he became the European Junior Chess Champion.

1978

In 1978, 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.

He gained the Grandmaster title in 1978 and was British champion in 1980.

Nunn has twice won individual gold medals at Chess Olympiads.

1982

At the prestigious Hoogovens tournament (held annually in Wijk aan Zee) he was a winner in 1982, 1990 and 1991.

Nunn achieved his highest Elo rating of 2630 in January 1995.

1984

In 1984, he began annotating games between computers for Personal Computer World magazine, and joined the editorial board of Frederic Friedel's Computerschach & Spiele magazine.

1985

On this subject he wrote Solving in Style (1985).

1987

His best performance in the World Chess Championship cycle came in 1987, when he lost a playoff match against Lajos Portisch for a place in the Candidates Tournament.

In 1987, he was announced as the first editor of the newly created Chessbase magazine.

1988

He 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.

He is the director of chess publishers Gambit Publications.

Chess historian Edward Winter has written of him:

"A polymath, Nunn has written authoritative monographs on openings, endings and compositions, as well as annotated games collections and autobiographical volumes. As an annotator he is equally at home presenting lucid prose descriptions for the relative novice and analysis of extreme depth for the expert."

1989

In 1989, he finished sixth in the inaugural 'World Cup', a series of tournaments in which the top 25 players in the world competed.

Six years earlier, in January 1989, his then rating of 2620 was high enough to elevate him into the world's top ten, where he shared ninth place.

This was close to the peak of the English chess boom, and there were two English players above him on the list: Nigel Short (world number three, 2650) and Jonathan Speelman (world number five, 2640).

1992

The 1992 release of his first book making use of chess endgame tablebases, Secrets Of Rook Endings, was later followed by Secrets of Minor-Piece Endings, and Secrets Of Pawnless Endings.

These books include human-usable endgame strategies found by Nunn (and others) by extensive experimentation with tablebases, and new editions have come out and are due as more tablebases are created and tablebases are more deeply data-mined.

2004

He won the World Chess Solving Championship in Halkidiki, Greece, in September 2004 and also made his final GM norm in problem solving.

Nunn is thus (as of 2004) the foremost data miner of chess endgame tablebases.

2007

There were further wins of the World Solving Championship in 2007 and in 2010.

2008

He is the third person ever to gain both over-the-board and solving GM titles (the others being Jonathan Mestel and Ram Soffer; Bojan Vučković has been the fourth since 2008).

Nunn has long been interested in computer chess.

2010

In a 2010 interview, Magnus Carlsen said he thought extreme intelligence could be a hindrance to one's chess career.

As an example of this, he cited Nunn:

"I am convinced that the reason the Englishman John Nunn never became world champion is that he is too clever for that. ... He has so incredibly much in his head. Simply too much. His enormous powers of understanding and his constant thirst for knowledge distracted him from chess."

Nunn is also involved with chess problems, composing several examples and solving as part of the British team on several occasions.

2014

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.

As well as being a strong player, Nunn is regarded as one of the best contemporary authors of chess books.

Nunn finished third in the World Senior Chess Championship (over-50 section) of 2014 in Katerini, Greece, second in the European Senior Chess Championship (over-50) of 2015 in Eretria, Greece, and first in the World Senior Chess Championship (over-65 section) in Assisi, Italy in 2022.

He was the winner again in 2023, at Terrasini.

Nunn is married to Petra Fink-Nunn, a German chess player with the title Woman FIDE Master.