Nigel Davies (born 1960) is a Welsh
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...
Grandmaster, chess
coach and writer.
Davies won the British (Under-21) Boys Championship in 1979 and the
British Rapidplay Chess Championship in 1987.
In July 2015 Davies
transferred his FIDE registration from England to Wales and will become eligible to represent them internationally.
Davies is also a keen practitioner of
Tai Chi
Tai chi (), short for Tai chi ch'üan ( zh, s=太极拳, t=太極拳, first=t, p=Tàijíquán, labels=no), sometimes called " shadowboxing", is an internal Chinese martial art practiced for defense training, health benefits and meditation. ...
and
Qigong
''Qigong'' (), ''qi gong'', ''chi kung'', ''chi 'ung'', or ''chi gung'' () is a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation
used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial-arts training. With roots in ...
, and is a registered instructor with th
Tai Chi Union for Great Britain
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References
External links
* Nigel Davies' own websit
TigerChess* Nigel Davies' blo
Chess Improver*
Interview with GM Nigel Davies
1960 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
English chess players
British chess writers
English non-fiction writers
Chess coaches
English male non-fiction writers
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