Matthew Sadler

Matthew Sadler 2012 at the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee
Association	England
Born	May 15, 1974 Chatham (Kent)
title	International Master (1988) Grand Master (1993)
Current  Elo rating	2694 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2694 (March 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Matthew David Sadler (born May 15, 1974 in Chatham (Kent) ) is an English grandmaster in chess .

Life

Matthew Sadler is the son of an English father and a French mother. His older brother Jerome is dedicated to music.

Matthew earned his living as a chess professional until 2000, after which he worked for the Hewlett-Packard company .

chess

Sadler initially took part in British tournaments and several English championships. He achieved his first IM norm in 1989 at the junior tournament in Oakham, the second in the same year at the WFW tournament in London. FIDE then awarded him the title of International Master . The grandmaster title followed in 1993.

In 1995 he won the British championship in Swansea . In 1997 he repeated (together with Michael Adams ) this success in Hove and won the traditional tournament of Hastings .

After serving in the Bundesliga in the 2003/2004 season , he did not play a rated chess game until he played for Amersfoort in the third highest Dutch division, class 2B, in the 2010/11 season . In August 2011 Sadler won the Barcelona-Sants International Open.

He was last among the top 50 in the world rankings in July 2001.

Team chess

National team

Sadler represented England at the 1996 Chess Olympiad in Yerevan (where he received a gold medal on the fourth board), in 1998 in Elista and in 2014 in Tromsø . In his only participation in a European team championship in 1997 in Pula , he won the competition with the English team and at the same time achieved the second-best individual result on the fourth board. In the same year he also took part in the team world championship in Lucerne , where he reached fourth place with the team and achieved the second-best result in the individual ranking on the third board.

Club chess

Aloyzas Kveinys - Matthew Sadler, German Chess League 2001 in Solingen.

In the British Four Nations Chess League , Sadler played in the 1993/94 season and from 1997 to 1999 at the Invicta Knights Maidstone , with whom he won the 1993/94 competition and also took part in the European Club Cup twice. He has been with the Guildford A&DC team since 2012 , with whom he became British team champions in 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 .

In the German Federal Chess League, Sadler played from 1997 to 2004 for the Solingen chess company .

In the Dutch Meester class he played from 1999 to 2001 with the Hilversums Schaakgenootschap .

In France, Sadler played for CS Clichy .

Shogi

Sadler also plays Shogi and rated his own skill level in autumn 2019 as "4th – 5th Kyu ". In September of this year he took, as u. a. also the British WIM Natasha Regan , participated in the open Austrian Shogi championships in Vienna.

Publications

Sadler has written several books:

• Semi Slav , 1998, ISBN 1-901259-08-0 .
• Tips for young players , 1999, ISBN 1-85744-231-8 .
• Queen's Gambit Declined , 2000, ISBN 1-85744-256-3 .
• The Slav , 2004, ISBN 1-901259-00-5 .
• The EuroChess chess school , 2008, ISBN 978-3-932336-09-6 . (German translation of Tips for young players )
• Study chess with Matthew Sadler , 2012, ISBN 978-1-85744-990-7 .
• Chess for Life , 2016, ISBN 978-1910093832 . (with Natasha Regan)
• Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI , 2019, ISBN 978-9056918187 . (with Natasha Regan)
  • (German: A turning point in chess: AlphaZero's groundbreaking strategies and the promise of AI , Alkmaar, Netherlands: New in Chess, 2019, translated by Harald Keilhack, ISBN 978-90-5691-885-9 .)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 81.
2. ↑ Results of the Dutch team championship 2010/11 on schaaksite.nl (Dutch)
3. ↑ Matthew Sadler's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Matthew Sadler's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Matthew Sadler's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Matthew Sadler's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Shogi for Chess Players - GM Matthew Sadler's first shogi tournament

Web links

Commons : Matthew Sadler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Matthew Sadler on chessgames.com (English)