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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* Nigel Davies' own websit
TigerChess
* Nigel Davies' blo
Chess Improver
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Interview with GM Nigel Davies
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