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Natasha Katherine Regan is a chess player and an award winning chess author including the book: Game Changer. She has represented the UK at 2 Chess Olympiads.

She is also an accomplished game all-rounder. She has won the British pair Go championship 7 times and has taken bronze in European Pair Go Championship and represented the UK at Go at the first WMSG in Beijing 2008 and again in 2012. At the Mind Sports Olympiad, her medals include silver in the Women's Pentamind in 2018.

Personal life
Natasha studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge University and a professional actuary with twin daughters and a son Oscar Selby. She taught Oscar maths for 4 hours every Saturday for 9 months leading to him become the youngest ever person to obtain the maximum grade for a GCSE of A* in 2010 for Mathematics.

Chess
When at Cambridge University she became the first female player to play above Board 8 (formerly known as the ladies’ board) in the Oxford and Cambridge Varsity Chess Match. Natasha represented England at the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manilla and the 1994 Chess Olympiad in Moscow. Natasha was awarded the FIDE rank of Woman International Master in 2002. In September 2019, she was elected to the board of the English Chess Federation (ECF).

Books
Natasha has co-authored 2 chess books alongside English chess Grandmaster Matthew Sadler. Their first colloboration Chess For Life won ECF book of the year. It interviews and details how the way several notable chess players' styles and games evolved throughout their chess careers.

Game Changer
Natasha Regan came up with the idea for her and GM Matthew Sadler's second collaboration Game Changer which won the FIDE chess book of the year. It details the lessons that can be learnt from how DeepMind's revolutionary computer program AlphaZero plays chess

The book has been influential upon competitive chess. At the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2019, after a draw with Teimour Radjabov, number 1 ranked chess player and world champion, Magnus Carlson commented about Game Changer: "'I found the book quite inspirational. I was thinking at several points during the game: How would AlphaZero have approached this?'"