Nigel Edward Povah (born 17 July 1952 in Clapham, London) is a British chess player.
[1][2] Povah is the author of Chess Training, English: Four Knights, How to play the English and co-author of the Sicilian: Lasker-Pelikan.
He is reckoned to be the UK's strongest correspondence chess player since Jonathan Penrose.
[citation needed] Having trained as an Occupational Psychologist he started his own consulting business, Assessment & Development Consultants, which he ran for nearly 30 years before selling the business and retiring in June 2017.
He also co-authored or co-edited several books relating to his field of work, namely Assessment and Development Centres, Succeeding at Assessment Centres for Dummies and Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management.