Igor-Alexandre Nataf (born 2 May 1978) is a French chess grandmaster.

Nataf represented France at the European Team Chess Championship in 1999[2] and at Olympiads in 2000 and 2004.

[3] In the 2000 FIDE World Championship, he beat Emil Sutovsky and Nigel Short before losing to the Brazilian grandmaster Rafael Leitão in round 3.

[5] Nataf's win against John Nunn at the 1999 French Team championship was voted best game in Chess Informant 76 in 1999.

Sicilian Defence, Kalashnikov Variation (ECO B32) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Be7 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 f5 9.Bd3 f4 10.g3 Nf6 11.gxf4 exf4 12.Bxf4 0-0 13.Bg3 Ng4 14.Be2 (diagram) Nxf2!!