Nicholas van der Nat

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Nicholas van der Nat
CountryFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Born (1979-10-01) 1 October 1979 (age 44) [1]
Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa [ citation needed ]
Title FIDE Master
FIDE   rating 2362 (January 2017)
Peak rating 2366 (October 2013)

Nicholas van der Nat is a South African chess player.

He has the titles of FIDE Master and FIDE Trainer. [2] He has won the South African Closed Chess Championships three times, in 2000, [3] 2005, [4] and 2009, [5] and was the best South African participant in the South African Open in 2009 and 2011. He coaches chess on a full-time basis.[ citation needed ] He has started and currently runs Chess Excellence, a Chess coaching and competition organisation based in Johannesburg.

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References

  1. ↑ Chess South Africa, archived from the original on 8 March 2013
  2. ↑ Nicholas van der Nat rating card at FIDE
  3. ↑ Crowther, Mark (1 May 2000), THE WEEK IN CHESS 286, London Chess Center, retrieved 27 August 2010
  4. ↑ Crowther, Mark (25 April 2005), THE WEEK IN CHESS 546, London Chess Center, archived from the original on 7 August 2011, retrieved 27 August 2010
  5. ↑ Crowther, Mark (4 January 2010), THE WEEK IN CHESS 791, London Chess Center, retrieved 27 August 2010
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