Matthew Sadler (chess player)

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This article is about the British chess player. For the English footballer, see Mat Sadler.

Matthew Sadler (born 5 May 1974, in England) is an International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer.

Sadler won the British Championship in 1995 at the age of 21 and again in 1997 (jointly with Michael Adams).^[1] He represented England in the Chess Olympiad of 1996, scoring 10½/13 and winning a gold medal for the best score on board four (England finished fourth), and also played in 1998 scoring 7½/12. He made 7/9 on board four for England at the European Team Championship in Pula in 1997^[2]; this was the best individual score by the five-man English team and helped it win the gold medal in a major senior event for the first (and to date only) time in English chess history. He was widely tipped to reach the heights scaled by such leading players as Michael Adams and Nigel Short but has since taken the decision to cease playing professionally, opting for a career in IT. For several years, he was the book reviewer for New in Chess magazine and also wrote books and articles for other chess magazines. In 2000, his book Queen's Gambit Declined (published by Everyman) was awarded the British Chess Federation's book of the year award.^[3] Sadler has a French mother and is also qualified to play in closed French events.