John Nunn
- January 4, 2024
- Chess Player
Quick Facts
| Full Name | John Nunn |
| Occupation | Chess Player |
| Date Of Birth | Apr 25, 1955(1955-04-25) |
| Age | 69 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth City | England |
| Horoscope | Aries |
John Nunn Biography
| Name | John Nunn |
| Birthday | Apr 25 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
| Home Town | England |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
John Nunn is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on April 25, 1955 in England, United Kingdom. English Chess player and problem solver , referred to as one of Britain’s greatest grandmasters.
He is a chess player from the world. contemporaneous with He is an international chess contemporary of Eugenio Torre..
As a junior, Nunn showed a prodigious talent for the game and in 1967, at twelve years of age, he won the British under-14 Championship. At fourteen, he was London Under-18 Champion for the 1969/70 season and less than a year later, at just fifteen years of age, he proceeded to Oriel College, Oxford, to study mathematics. At the time, Nunn was Oxford’s youngest undergraduate since Cardinal Wolsey in 1520. Graduating in 1973, he went on to gain his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1978 with a thesis on finite H-spaces supervised by John Hubbuck. Nunn remained in Oxford as a mathematics lecturer until 1981, when he became a professional chess player.
In 1975, he became the European Junior Chess Champion. He gained the Grandmaster title in 1978 and was British champion in 1980. Nunn has twice won individual gold medals at Chess Olympiads. In 1989, he finished sixth in the inaugural ‘World Cup’, a series of tournaments in which the top 25 players in the world competed. His best performance in the World Chess Championship cycle came in 1987, when he lost a playoff match against Lajos Portisch for a place in the Candidates Tournament. At the prestigious Hoogovens tournament (held annually in Wijk aan Zee) he was a winner in 1982, 1990 and 1991.
He is the father of German Chess Master Petra Fink.
John Nunn Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Chess Player |
| House | Living in own house. |
John Nunn is one of the richest Chess Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Nunn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
His first major chess victory came at 12 years old, when he took home his first British 14th-under Championship.
He was the winner of his first British champion in 1979. the two times he won individual gold medals at the Chess Olympiads.
John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955 in London) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician. He is one of England’s strongest chess players and was formerly in the world’s top ten.
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Nunn finished third in the World Senior Chess Championship (over-50 section) of 2014 in Katerini, Greece, and second in the European Senior Chess Championship (over-50) of 2015 in Eretria, Greece.
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John Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. John Nunn celebrates birthday on April 25 of every year.