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sadler , 2012 at the tata chess tournament england 2667 -lrb- january 1999 -rrb- england -lrb- rankings -rrb- no. 88 in the january 2012 fide world grandmaster 400173 15 may 1974 matthew sadler matthewsadler12a.jpg matthew sadler
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matthew sadler

matthew sadler -lrb- born 15 may 1974 , in england -rrb- is a chess grandmaster -lrb- 1993 -rrb- and a chess writer .
sadler won the british championship in 1995 at the age of 21 and again in 1997 -lrb- jointly with michael adams -rrb- .
he represented england in the 1996 chess olympiad , scoring 10 1/2 / 13 and winning a gold medal for the best score on board four -lrb- england finished fourth -rrb- , and also played in 1998 scoring 7 1/2 / 12 .
he made 7/9 on board four for england at the european team chess championship in pula in 1997 ; this was the best individual score by the five-man english team and helped it win the gold medal in a major senior event for the first -lrb- and to date only -rrb- time in english chess history .
he was widely tipped to reach the heights scaled by such leading players as michael adams and nigel short but has since taken the decision to cease playing professionally , opting for a career in it in the netherlands .
for several years , he was the book reviewer for `` new in chess '' magazine and also wrote books and articles for other chess magazines .
in 2000 , his book `` queen 's gambit declined '' -lrb- published by everyman -rrb- was awarded the british chess federation 's book of the year award .
sadler has a french mother , speaks french perfectly and is also qualified to play in closed french events .
latterly a resident of amersfoort , sadler returned to chess in 2010 to play in a rapidplay tournament held in nearby wageningen .
he won the event with a maximum score of 7/7 , finishing ahead of strong grandmasters jan timman , friso nijboer and daniel fridman .
in august 2011 sadler continued the strong play by winning the xiii open internacional d'escacs de sants scoring 8 1/2 / 10 ahead of several strong grandmasters including jan smeets .
right thereafter in october 2011 sadler went on to win the oslo chess international 2011 in front of ten other grandmasters , amongst them sergei tiviakov , jon ludvig hammer and sergey volkov all being 2600 + players .
sadler won convincingly , with 8/9 points and a performance rating of 2849 .
going into 2012 , the gain in rating points elevated him to fourth rank amongst active english players and also lifted him back into the world top 100 .
in a january 2012 interview , sadler stated that chess was now primarily a `` hobby '' for him .
while relishing his return to tournament play , sadler noted that he was now an amateur , and would not be coming back as a professional .
he contrasts his present lighthearted attitude with his demeanor during his time as a professional , when he was `` working ten hours a day and incredibly intensively '' .
