He made 7/9 on board four for England at the European Team Chess Championship in Pula in 1997. He represented England in the 1996 Chess Olympiad, scoring 10½/13 and winning a gold medal for the best score on board four (England finished fourth), and also played in 1998 scoring 7½/12. Sadler won the British Championship in 1995 at the age of 21 and again in 1997 (jointly with Michael Adams). He was tipped to reach the heights scaled by other leading English players as Michael Adams and Nigel Short but made the decision to cease playing professionally in his mid 20s, opting for an IT career in the Netherlands.
Sadler has a French mother, speaks French perfectly and is also qualified to play in closed French events. 2 ranked English player as of October 2021. Matthew David Sadler (born ) is an English chess grandmaster, chess writer and two-time British Chess Champion.
Sadler at the 2012 Tata Steel Chess Tournament
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