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Nigel Short MBE
Short in 2013
Full name
Nigel David Short
Country
England
Born
(1965-06-01) 1 June 1965 (age 58) Leigh, Lancashire, England
Title
Grandmaster (1984)
FIDE rating
2595 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2712 (April 2004)
Peak ranking
No. 3 (July 1988)
Nigel David ShortMBE (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022. Short earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 19 and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from July 1988 to July 1989. In 1993, he became the first English player to play a World Chess Championship match, when he qualified to play Garry Kasparov in the PCA world championship in London, where Kasparov won 12½ to 7½.
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours for services to chess.[1]
^"No. 55513". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1999. p. 25.
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Schachweltmeisterschaft 1993: Anatoli Karpow–Jan Timman; Garri Kasparow–NigelShort (in German). Hollfeld: Beyer. ISBN 978-3-891-68042-1. Byrne, Robert (12...
John Nunn in a blitz game at the age of eight. In 1976, a ten-year-old NigelShort beat Viktor Korchnoi as a participant in a simultaneous exhibition, the...
Champion Magnus Carlsen. A New York Times article cited concerns from NigelShort and Bruce Pandolfini about the methods used to achieve the feat. They...
title in a match, and in fact had defeated the rightful challenger (NigelShort in 1993), that he was still the reigning world champion. Thus, for the...
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1993 by Garry Kasparov and NigelShort for the marketing and organization of their chess world championship. In 1993, NigelShort won the Candidates Tournament...
however, never took place. Ever since 1993, when Garry Kasparov and NigelShort broke away from chess governing body FIDE to play their world championship...
world championship challenger GM NigelShort. In the 2023 Bulgarian Chess Championships, she ended half a point short of first place. Although she tied...
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points from a possible 10 in the Masters, tying for first place with NigelShort before losing a play-off match for the first prize. During this event...
Garry Kasparov (the World Champion of classical chess at the time) and NigelShort played a 6-game exhibition Rapid match ("Speed Chess Challenge") at the...
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Chess Tournament 2015: Won this tournament in Kolkata, India ahead of NigelShort and 25 other GM's. Member of the winning team of the Spanish League 2015...
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took place in 1987, when then-world champion Garry Kasparov defeated NigelShort in the "London Docklands Speed Chess Challenge" at the London Hippodrome...
adjournment skills of his second, GM Lubomir Kavalek, who later helped NigelShort beat Anatoly Karpov and reach a World Championship match against Garry...
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