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\'John Denis Martin Nunn' (born April 25, 1955) is an English chess player.One of England's strongest players, and once in the world's top ten, Nunn has won several individual gold medals at Chess Olympiads. He gained the International Grandmaster title in 1980. In 1989 he finished sixth in the inaugural (and only) World Cup, a series of tournaments in which the top 25 players in the world competed. His best performance in the World Chess Championship came in 1987, when he lost a playoff match against Lajos Portisch for a place in the Candidates Tournament.
As well as being a strong player, Nunn is regarded as one of the best contemporary authors of chess books. He has penned many volumes, 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.
Nunn is also involved with chess problems, composing several examples and solving as part of the British team on several occasions. On this subject he wrote Solving in Style (1985). He won the the World Chess Solving Championship in Halkidiki, Greece, in September 2004 and also made his final GM norm in problem solving. He is the third person ever to gain both over-the-board and solving GM titles.
On the April 2004 FIDE list, Nunn had an Elo rating of 2617, making him number eighty-two in the world and England's number five (behind Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and Matthew Sadler).
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