Nicholas van der Nat

Nicholas van der Nat is a South African chess player.

Nicholas van der Nat
Country	South Africa
Born	(1979-10-01) 1 October 1979 (age 45)[1] Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa [citation needed]
Title	FIDE Master
FIDE rating	2362 (January 2017)
Peak rating	2366 (October 2013)

He has the titles of FIDE Master and FIDE Trainer.^[2] He has won the South African Closed Chess Championships three times, in 2000,^[3] 2005,^[4] and 2009,^[5] and was the best South African participant in the South African Open in 2009 and 2011. He coaches chess on a full-time basis.^{[citation needed]} He has started and currently runs Chess Excellence, a Chess coaching and competition organisation based in Johannesburg.