Nigel Edward Povah (born 17 July 1952 in

Clapham, London Clapham () is a district in south London, south west London, England, lying mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, but with some areas (including Clapham Common) extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth. History Ea ...

) is a British

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

player. He is an

International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

at chess and a Grandmaster at

correspondence chess Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, or email. Less commo ...

. Povah is the author of ''Chess Training'', ''English: Four Knights'', ''How to play the English'' and co-author of the ''Sicilian: Lasker-Pelikan''. He is reckoned to be the UK's strongest correspondence chess player since

Jonathan Penrose Jonathan Penrose, (7 October 1933 – 30 November 2021) was an English chess player, who held the titles Grandmaster (1993) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983). He won the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 ...

. Having trained as an Occupational Psychologist he started his own consulting business, ''Assessment & Development Consultants'', which he ran for nearly 30 years before selling the business and retiring in June 2017. He also co-authored or co-edited several books relating to his field of work, namely ''Assessment and Development Centres'', ''Succeeding at Assessment Centres for Dummies'' and ''Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management''. He is married and lives in

Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The nam ...

, Surrey.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Povah, Nigel Living people British chess players Chess International Masters 1952 births