WIMNatasha K Regan

Natasha Regan learned chess from her father at about seven, using a children's book obtained through a cereal-box offer. She attended a local junior club and won English girls' age-group titles in five successive years. She studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, before becoming an actuary. In the 1992 Oxford-Cambridge match she became the first woman to play above the traditional eighth board. She represented England at the Olympiads in 1992 and 1994. FIDE awarded her the woman international master title in 2002. With Matthew Sadler she wrote Chess for Life, winner of the English Chess Federation's book award. Their later book Game Changer examined lessons from AlphaZero and won FIDE's book-of-the-year award. She joined the ECF board in 2019. She won the English senior women's championship in 2023 and 2024. Beyond chess, she represented Britain at international Go events and won seven British pair Go titles with Matthew Cocke. She also won consecutive women's Pentamind titles at the Mind Sports Olympiad in 2023 and 2024.