Nigel Short

<h2 id="early-life-family-and-education">Early life, family, and education</h2>
Short was born 1 June 1965 in <a href="/facts/Leigh,_Greater_Manchester/SCmstcmh">Leigh</a>, <a href="/facts/Lancashire/XmzHoIsl">Lancashire</a>. He is the second of three children (all boys) of David and Jean Short. His father was a journalist and his mother was a school secretary.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a> He grew up in <a href="/facts/Atherton,_Greater_Manchester/WAQrwvyn">Atherton</a>, going to St Philip's Primary School on Bolton Old Road. He studied at the independent <a href="/facts/Bolton_School/Gr5XBGdH">Bolton School</a> and <a href="/facts/Wigan_and_Leigh_College/BPY3mPpA">Leigh College</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a>
Short began playing chess at the age of five after watching his father teach his older brother Martin.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a> He was a member both of Atherton Chess Club, which was founded by his father, and later of Bolton Chess Club,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a> which had initially rejected him (aged seven) for being too young. His parents divorced when he was 13 years old.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a> Short left school at age 17, having completed four <a href="/facts/O-levels/JYk2kDHl">O-levels</a>, to focus on chess full-time.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a>

<h2 id="prodigy-to-grandmaster">Prodigy to Grandmaster</h2>

Short learned chess at age five from his father.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a> A <a href="/facts/Chess_prodigy/HvAE2KE6">chess prodigy</a>, Short first attracted significant media attention as a 10-year-old by defeating <a href="/facts/Viktor_Korchnoi/wu69VWqR">Viktor Korchnoi</a>, then ranked No. 2 in the world, in a <a href="/facts/Simultaneous_exhibition/z1K2zXaB">simultaneous exhibition</a> in London over 31 boards, where Short was the only victor. He was virtually self-taught. In 1977, he became the youngest-ever participant in the <a href="/facts/British_Chess_Championship/bz6GajR7">British Chess Championship</a> by qualifying through the North West Zonal three days before his 12th birthday. In the event itself, he defeated ten-time British champion <a href="/facts/Jonathan_Penrose/fRKuCzUR">Jonathan Penrose</a>, and finished with 5/11, an excellent showing for a debutant.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a> 
Short dominated British youth chess during this period, and earned a Master rating with his showing in the 1977 British finals. In 1978 he won his first adult national title when he won the British Lightning Championship aged 13 years 5 months 11 days, a title which he won again in 1980.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a> 
In 1979, in the British Championship at <a href="/facts/Chester/Ed9BmDyY">Chester</a>, Short tied for first place with <a href="/facts/John_Nunn/BkI2mB24">John Nunn</a> and <a href="/facts/Robert_Bellin/BFqzC2kC">Robert Bellin</a>, earning his first <a href="/facts/International_Master/maWP1Mhx">International Master</a> norm; Bellin won the title on tiebreak. Later in 1979, Short tied for first place in the World Championship for players under age 16, the World Cadet Championship, at <a href="/facts/Belfort/XXXMFFBY">Belfort</a>, France, but lost to Argentinian Marcello Tempone on tiebreak.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a> He became (at the time) the youngest <a href="/facts/International_Master/maWP1Mhx">International Master</a> in chess history by scoring 8/15 in the <a href="/facts/Hastings_International_Chess_Congress/Fn5WAtYb">Hastings Premier</a> in 1979/80, breaking Bobby Fischer's record from 1958.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a> 
Participating in four <a href="/facts/World_Junior_Chess_Championship/EUUDUdz9">World Junior Championships</a> (1980–83), Short achieved his best result during his first attempt, when he placed second to <a href="/facts/Garry_Kasparov/NNjULdHH">Garry Kasparov</a> in 1980 at <a href="/facts/Dortmund/s1N5ruq8">Dortmund</a>. Short represented England in international team play for the first time at the 1983 European Team finals in <a href="/facts/Plovdiv/28MKHt8X">Plovdiv</a>. He was awarded the <a href="/facts/Grandmaster_(chess)/NalWpE97">grandmaster</a> title in 1984, aged 19—becoming the youngest grandmaster in the world at the time,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a> being <a href="/facts/List_of_chess_grandmasters/hhcGLjB4">later supplanted</a> by <a href="/facts/Simen_Agdestein/c0rlU8X4">Simen Agdestein</a>.

<h2 id="world-championship-candidate">World Championship candidate</h2>
Short's arrival on the <a href="/facts/World_Chess_Championship/XPdyx85g">World Chess Championship</a> title began in earnest in 1985 when he narrowly qualified from the <a href="/facts/Biel/NzCI7g9d">Biel</a> <a href="/facts/Interzonal/9Nt1F9wG">Interzonal</a> to become Britain's first-ever <a href="/facts/Candidates_Tournament/9GYMywX5">candidate</a>. He needed a playoff to advance past <a href="/facts/John_van_der_Wiel/kMUxRlaJ">John van der Wiel</a> and <a href="/facts/Eugenio_Torre/vBmJsnAb">Eugenio Torre</a> for the last berth, after the three had tied in regulation play. But the <a href="/facts/Montpellier/jz011snV">Montpellier</a> Candidates Tournament brought Short little success, as he scored 7/15 to finish in 10th place. In the next cycle, he again qualified by winning the 1987 <a href="/facts/Subotica/oVt7kNGw">Subotica</a> Interzonal with <a href="/facts/Jon_Speelman/geV6HDkJ">Jon Speelman</a>. The Candidates stage had by this time reverted to its traditional match format: Short defeated <a href="/facts/Gyula_Sax/3EdhRUkQ">Gyula Sax</a> (+2=3) in <a href="/facts/Saint_John,_New_Brunswick/GKg2aueF">Saint John</a>, Canada, in 1988,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a> but then unexpectedly lost (−2=3) to Speelman in London.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a>
Short's next attempt proved his most successful. He defeated <a href="/facts/Mikhail_Gurevich_(chess_player)/zmUkXM5G">Mikhail Gurevich</a> in the last round of the <a href="/facts/Manila/1jLySodG">Manila</a> Interzonal and finished equal third with <a href="/facts/Viswanathan_Anand/4bbYydet">Viswanathan Anand</a>, behind <a href="/facts/Vassily_Ivanchuk/IRsJzAVf">Vassily Ivanchuk</a> and <a href="/facts/Boris_Gelfand/BKbVJ8hK">Boris Gelfand</a>, qualifying him as a Candidate for the third successive time. Meeting Speelman again in the 8/Final, in London, he tied a close match (+2-2=4) before edging his older opponent 1.5-0.5 in the tie-break. The 1/4 final, against Gelfand, in Brussels, was a bloodthirsty affair in which Short eventually prevailed (+4-2=2). In the semifinal, in 1992, the Englishman overcame former World Champion <a href="/facts/Anatoly_Karpov/b5jAyz9S">Anatoly Karpov</a> (+4−2=4) in a match that was described as "the end of an era". In the final, in <a href="/facts/San_Lorenzo_de_El_Escorial/TxD42E9j">San Lorenzo de El Escorial</a>, Short defeated Dutchman <a href="/facts/Jan_Timman/XvFKvbcJ">Jan Timman</a> (+5−3=5) to earn the right to meet defending World Champion Garry Kasparov.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a> The <a href="/facts/King_walk/tNnxmeh4">King walk</a>, perhaps the most famous in recent history, where Nigel Short defeated Jan Timman in Tilburg in 1991, was voted as one of the hundred greatest chess games in a list compiled by FM Graham Burgess, and GMs John Nunn and John Emms.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a>

<h2 id="world-title-match-london-1993">World title match, London 1993</h2>
According to Short and Kasparov, the head of the chess world's governing body FIDE, <a href="/facts/Florencio_Campomanes/DWxa949z">Florencio Campomanes</a>, in breach of FIDE rules, decided the location of the match (Manchester) and the prize fund without consulting them. In her book Nigel Short: Quest for the Crown (Cadogan 1993), the British WIM and author <a href="/facts/Cathy_Warwick/5uP7rQbh">Cathy Forbes</a> wrote that at no time in the 1993 bidding process did FIDE actually receive a conforming world championship match bid. In response, Short and Kasparov promptly formed a rival organisation, the <a href="/facts/Professional_Chess_Association/v20pns0f">Professional Chess Association</a>. The resulting <a href="/facts/World_Chess_Championship_1993/Q47G7omN">match</a>—sponsored by <a href="/facts/The_Times/5BwkodnX">The Times</a> newspaper—was held under the new body's auspices in London from September to October 1993.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a> Kasparov won convincingly (+6−1=13) – the largest margin of victory in a world title contest since <a href="/facts/Mikhail_Botvinnik/u86laK7F">Botvinnik</a> defeated <a href="/facts/Mikhail_Tal/xamK2V7L">Tal</a> in 1961.

<h3>Controversy</h3>
Further information: <a href="/facts/World_Chess_Championship_1993/Q47G7omN">World Chess Championship 1993</a>
The unprecedented rebellion organized by Kasparov and Short resulted in a parallel World Championship cycle organized by FIDE, featuring <a href="/facts/Anatoly_Karpov/b5jAyz9S">Anatoly Karpov</a> and <a href="/facts/Jan_Timman/XvFKvbcJ">Jan Timman</a> playing a title match later in 1993, which was won by Karpov.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20">20</a> Short and Kasparov were both sanctioned by FIDE, and the situation led to enormous controversy and upheaval in the chess world for the next several years.

<h2 id="major-tournament-results">Major tournament results</h2>

Short won the <a href="/facts/British_Chess_Championship/bz6GajR7">British Chess Championship</a> in 1984, 1987 and 1998, and the English Championship in 1991 (the only year in which the latter event was held).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21">21</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22">22</a> He was the <a href="/facts/Commonwealth_Chess_Championship/CUGuKVIL">Commonwealth Champion</a> in 2004 (<a href="/facts/Mumbai/BdoEc10R">Mumbai</a>), 2006 (<a href="/facts/Mumbai/BdoEc10R">Mumbai</a>) and 2008 (<a href="/facts/Nagpur/CEBURus5">Nagpur</a>). He won the 2006 <a href="/facts/EU_Individual_Open_Chess_Championship/sWPaIJuA">EU Individual Open Chess Championship</a> in Liverpool and took a share of second place in 2008 when it was held there again. He has finished outright first, or tied for first, in dozens of other international tournaments, including <a href="/facts/Geneva/14gXxjcq">Geneva</a> (1979), <a href="/facts/Belfort/XXXMFFBY">Belfort</a>, World Under 16 (1979), the <a href="/facts/BBC_Master_Game/QrbgcKIU">BBC Master Game</a> (1981), <a href="/facts/Amsterdam/Xdd393bz">Amsterdam</a> OHRA (1982), <a href="/facts/Baku/oUVVcRN1">Baku</a> (1983), <a href="/facts/Esbjerg/dVE4jY6a">Esbjerg</a> (1984), British Rapidplay Chess Championship (1986), <a href="/facts/Corus_chess_tournament/YFYr6U0b">Wijk aan Zee</a> (1986, 1987), <a href="/facts/Reykjav%C3%ADk/bKLzL94g">Reykjavík</a> (1987), Amsterdam VSB (1988, 1991, 1992, 1993), <a href="/facts/Hastings_International_Chess_Congress/Fn5WAtYb">Hastings</a> (1987/88, 1988/89), <a href="/facts/P%C3%A4rnu/cshaE6Hn">Pärnu</a> (1996), <a href="/facts/Groningen/NN8RGePD">Groningen</a> (1996), <a href="/facts/Tallinn/IBLBVtHt">Tallinn</a>/Pärnu (1998), <a href="/facts/Isle_of_Man/HG7bYyA8">Isle of Man</a> Monarch Assurance 1998, <a href="/facts/Dhaka/8IYAkBh9">Dhaka</a> United Insurance (1999), <a href="/facts/Shymkent/Fq9YzVP5">Shymkent</a> (1999), <a href="/facts/Pamplona/MQGIIgWJ">Pamplona</a> (1999/2000), <a href="/facts/Linares,_Chile/gGSGTFP1">Linares</a> Open (2000), Tan Chin Nam Cup, Beijing (2000), Sigeman and Co. <a href="/facts/Malm%C3%B6/Ax5CCPu0">Malmö</a> (2002, 2009, 2013 joint first shared with <a href="/facts/Rich%C3%A1rd_Rapport/j3UqMPAT">Richárd Rapport</a> and <a href="/facts/Nils_Grandelius/bzs7rEoR">Nils Grandelius</a>), <a href="/facts/Gibraltar_Chess_Festival/p78FVdUC">Gibraltar</a> (2003, 2004, 2012), <a href="/facts/Budapest/VdcUAkxm">Budapest</a> Hunguest Hotels (2003), Samba Cup, <a href="/facts/Skanderborg/vMgSC2pv">Skanderborg</a> (2003), <a href="/facts/Taiyuan/NcfBHVY1">Taiyuan</a> (2004), the Politiken Cup (2006), <a href="/facts/Bazna/obJybva5">Bazna</a> (2008), the <a href="/facts/Howard_Staunton_Memorial_Tournament/hUbTCNAv">Staunton Memorial</a> (2009), <a href="/facts/Bangkok/WRxftcFz">Bangkok</a> Chess Club Open (2011, 2012, 2015, 2017), <a href="/facts/Luanda/qaGR7W7r">Luanda</a> (2011), 7th <a href="/facts/Edmonton/ePFNJlBN">Edmonton</a> International (2012), <a href="/facts/Bunratty/AbP0k5ln">Bunratty</a> (2012, 2016, 2017, 2020), RA Club <a href="/facts/Ottawa/x5FkqX7F">Ottawa</a> (2012), <a href="/facts/P%C3%BChaj%C3%A4rve/PSz2Q8mS">Pühajärve</a> Rapid Chess Tournament (2012), Spicenet <a href="/facts/Tanzania/MJueJ7E4">Tanzania</a> Open (2013), <a href="/facts/PokerStars/tTneRWVy">PokerStars</a> <a href="/facts/Isle_of_Man/HG7bYyA8">Isle of Man</a> (2014), Zaw Win Lay Memorial <a href="/facts/Yangon/y88kj6dh">Yangon</a> (2014), the <a href="/facts/South_African_Open_(chess)/43Tj819h">South African Open</a> (2015) the 1st Stars Cup in <a href="/facts/Bandar-e_Anzali/oSuJMqnG">Anzali</a> (2016), the British Knockout Championship (2016), the <a href="/facts/Bacolod/zgXTRuFo">Bacolod</a> Negros Open (2017), the Pre-League Blitz Open in <a href="/facts/Kampala/62v9AGDl">Kampala</a> (2018), the GM Nigel Short Blitz in <a href="/facts/Lagos/sujDJmtW">Lagos</a> (2018), and the Moja GM Tournament, in <a href="/facts/Kimberley,_Northern_Cape/YMyrwKlV">Kimberley</a>, (2022).
Short won the 50th edition of the <a href="/facts/Canadian_Open_Chess_Championship/M5fcSR1b">Canadian Open Chess Championship</a> in Ottawa in 2013, edging Canadian Grandmaster <a href="/facts/Eric_Hansen_(chess_player)/8KKcXaNq">Eric Hansen</a> on tiebreak after both finished with unbeaten 7½/9 scores.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23">23</a>
Arguably Short's finest tournament performance came at the <a href="/facts/Max_Euwe_Memorial_Tournament/BgUvWqwn">Amsterdam VSB</a> tournament in 1991, where he tied for first place with <a href="/facts/Valery_Salov/RQDvtUXd">Valery Salov</a> ahead of both Kasparov and Karpov.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24">24</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25">25</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26">26</a>

<h2 id="match-results">Match results</h2>
In addition to World Championship cycle results already mentioned above, Short has enjoyed other success as a match player, beating US Champion <a href="/facts/Lev_Alburt/NIS2Xgvn">Lev Alburt</a> in <a href="/facts/Foxborough,_Massachusetts/He7UYhQE">Foxborough, Massachusetts</a> in 1985 by the score of 7–1 (+6=2). He has also defeated <a href="/facts/Utut_Adianto/cIjUdCQ5">Utut Adianto</a> (+3=3) in <a href="/facts/Jakarta/HwQk9xHT">Jakarta</a> 1995, <a href="/facts/%C3%89tienne_Bacrot/1EzH1YUA">Étienne Bacrot</a> in Albert 2000 (+3−1=2), <a href="/facts/Hannes_Stef%C3%A1nsson/SdTSqDSU">Hannes Stefánsson</a> in Reykjavík 2002 (+4−1=1), <a href="/facts/Ehsan_Ghaem_Maghami/gMPAlGcC">Ehsan Ghaem Maghami</a> in <a href="/facts/Tehran/S8dmdwyG">Tehran</a> 2003 (+2=4) <a href="/facts/Zahar_Efimenko/Q6FaHaGX">Zahar Efimenko</a> in Mukachevo 2009 (+2−1=3) and <a href="/facts/Hou_Yifan/WlCzrhqW">Hou Yifan</a> in Hoogeveen 2016 (+2-1=3). Short lost to <a href="/facts/Joel_Benjamin/ATSVryoc">Joel Benjamin</a> by 2½–1½ at London 1983, drew with Eugenio Torre (+1−1=4) in Manila 1988, drew with Timman (3–3) in an exhibition match at <a href="/facts/Hilversum/mweNrIyn">Hilversum</a> in 1989, defeated <a href="/facts/Boris_Gulko/BppqJ47l">Boris Gulko</a> in extra games in the PCA Candidates' quarterfinals at New York 1994, lost to <a href="/facts/Gata_Kamsky/J1bHygy6">Gata Kamsky</a> by (5½–1½) in the PCA semi-finals at Linares 1995, and drew with <a href="/facts/Anish_Giri/7Gve5H3Y">Anish Giri</a> in Amsterdam 2010 (+1-1=2).
In a return to Tehran in March 2013, Short played a second match against the Iranian player <a href="/facts/Ehsan_Ghaem_Maghami/gMPAlGcC">Ehsan Ghaem Maghami</a>. Billed as Talking Chess, the contest comprised four games with a classic <a href="/facts/Time_control/STuRXaHJ">time control</a>, four games of <a href="/facts/Rapid_chess/lga7H592">rapid chess</a> and eight games of <a href="/facts/Blitz_chess/lga7H592">blitz</a>. As the classic games progressed, the players gave an intermittent live commentary, aimed at increasing the understanding of the live and television audiences, who could contrast and compare the player's own thoughts and assessments. Short won the classic games (+2=2), the rapid games (+3−1) and the blitz games (+3−2=3).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27">27</a>

<h2 id="international-team-record">International team record</h2>
Short made his international team debut in the <a href="/facts/European_Team_Chess_Championship/MoIxjrEX">European Team Chess Championship</a> at age 17 at <a href="/facts/Plovdiv/28MKHt8X">Plovdiv</a> 1983. He represented England in 17 consecutive Olympiads between 1984 and 2016. Short's main highlights are: team silver medals in the chess Olympiads of <a href="/facts/26th_Chess_Olympiad/EnL3xyMc">Thessaloniki 1984</a>, <a href="/facts/27th_Chess_Olympiad/WKqS9Kte">Dubai 1986</a> (where he also took gold medal for the best individual performance on board three) and Thessaloniki 1988. He took a team bronze in the <a href="/facts/29th_Chess_Olympiad/tC5n9RW7">Novi Sad Olympiad of 1990</a>, and led England to fourth-place finishes in both <a href="/facts/31st_Chess_Olympiad/bLCjXeDs">1994</a> and <a href="/facts/32nd_Chess_Olympiad/J36PmUkd">1996</a>. He led the English team to victory in the 1997 Euroteams at <a href="/facts/Pula/SlkNDjR4">Pula</a>, and was a member of the bronze winning team in 1992, and of fourth place teams in 1983 and 2001. He was a member of three English teams in the <a href="/facts/World_Team_Chess_Championship/HHUx1Pes">World Team Chess Championships</a> of 1985 (team bronze), 1989 (team bronze), and 1997 (team fourth). His complete log when representing England in major international team events follows.
Olympiad:

<ul><li><a href="/facts/26th_Chess_Olympiad/EnL3xyMc">Thessaloniki 1984</a> 2nd reserve, 3/6 (+1−1=4) team silver</li>
<li><a href="/facts/27th_Chess_Olympiad/WKqS9Kte">Dubai 1986</a> board 3, 10/13 (+8−1=4), individual gold medal, team silver</li>
<li><a href="/facts/28th_Chess_Olympiad/QfWnT0n9">Thessaloniki 1988</a> board 1, 7/12 (+3−1=8), team silver</li>
<li><a href="/facts/29th_Chess_Olympiad/tC5n9RW7">Novi Sad 1990</a> board 1, 6/12 (+2−2=8) team bronze</li>
<li><a href="/facts/30th_Chess_Olympiad/nhQVGKDx">Manila 1992</a>, board 1, 6/11 (+3−2=6)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/31st_Chess_Olympiad/bLCjXeDs">Moscow 1994</a>, board 1, 8½/13 (+6−2=5)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/32nd_Chess_Olympiad/J36PmUkd">Yerevan 1996</a>, board 1, 7/12 (+3−1=8)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/33rd_Chess_Olympiad/cHLWrXER">Elista 1998</a>, board 2, 6½/11 (+2−0=9)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/34th_Chess_Olympiad/PhoVBVCL">Istanbul 2000</a>, board 2, 7/12 (+3−1=8)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/35th_Chess_Olympiad/e7QnFuqz">Bled 2002</a>, board 2, 8½/13 (+5−1=7)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/36th_Chess_Olympiad/yY9lQYJN">Calvià 2004</a>, board 2, 1½/4 (+1−2=1)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/37th_Chess_Olympiad/vlsw0UfQ">Turin 2006</a>, board 2, 8/11 (+5−0=6)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/38th_Chess_Olympiad/BanEuL6M">Dresden 2008</a>, board 2, 7/10 (+6−2=2)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/39th_Chess_Olympiad/FMoI9Dba">Khanty-Mansiysk 2010</a>, board 2, 4/8 (+2−2=4)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/40th_Chess_Olympiad/DldIqjK0">Istanbul 2012</a>, board 3, 7½/10 (+6−1=3)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/41st_Chess_Olympiad/ccuhHTzW">Tromsø 2014</a>, board 3, 1½/5 (+1-3=1)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/42nd_Chess_Olympiad/tkonykck">Baku 2016</a>, reserve, 6½/9 (+5-1=3)</li></ul>
European Team Championship:

<ul><li><a href="/facts/Plovdiv/28MKHt8X">Plovdiv</a> 1983 board 7, 4½/7 (+3−1=3)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Debrecen/WtzBRFwC">Debrecen</a> 1992 board 1, 5½/8 (+4−1=3), individual bronze medal, team bronze</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Pula/SlkNDjR4">Pula</a> 1997 board 1, 4/7 (+2−1=4) team gold</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Batumi/eBVMe6VF">Batumi</a> 1999 board 1, 5/8 (+3−1=4)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Le%C3%B3n,_Spain/WS564LIs">León</a> 2001 board 2, 6/9 (+3−0=6)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Porto_Carras/9D1qSnkI">Porto Carras</a> 2011 board 2, 3/7 (+2-3=2)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Warsaw/0cRqN3pw">Warsaw</a> 2013 board 3, 4½/7 (+2-0=5)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Reykjav%C3%ADk/bKLzL94g">Reykjavík</a> 2015 board 4, 3/5 (+2-1=2)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Hersonissos/0KWKv7Nu">Hersonissos</a> 2017 board 2, 3½/7 (+2-2=3)</li></ul>
World Team Championship:

<ul><li><a href="/facts/Lucerne/VIVKyRVM">Lucerne</a> 1985 board 4, 4/8 (+1−1=6) team bronze</li>
<li>Lucerne 1989, board 1, 4½/8 (+3−2=3), individual silver medal, team bronze</li>
<li>Lucerne 1997, board 1, 4/8 (+0−0=8)</li></ul>
World Senior Team Championship:

<ul><li><a href="/facts/Dresden/nKVXxIgq">Dresden</a> 2015 board 1, 7/8 (+6-0=2) individual gold medal, team bronze</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Hersonissos/0KWKv7Nu">Hersonissos</a> 2017 board 1, 8/9 (+7-0=2) individual gold medal, team bronze</li></ul>
<h2 id="other-activities">Other activities</h2>
Short was appointed to serve as one of several Vice Presidents of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) in October 2018.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28">28</a> He has written chess columns and book reviews for the British newspapers <a href="/facts/The_Sunday_Times_(UK)/15om0zLf">The Sunday Times</a>, <a href="/facts/The_Daily_Telegraph/aHa5nNw5">The Daily Telegraph</a>, the <a href="/facts/Daily_Mail/a4uUpVJG">Daily Mail</a> and <a href="/facts/The_Spectator/8BG7GeW1">The Spectator</a>. He wrote for <a href="/facts/The_Sunday_Telegraph/RplezRC5">The Sunday Telegraph</a> for a decade and for <a href="/facts/The_Guardian/H84wwJYM">The Guardian</a> between 2005 and 19 October 2006. He reported on the <a href="/facts/FIDE_World_Chess_Championship_2005/zRXqzere">FIDE World Chess Championship 2005</a> in <a href="/facts/San_Luis,_Argentina/I9sqVRlG">San Luis, Argentina</a>, for the ChessBase website. He wrote a column, "Short Stories", for <a href="/facts/New_in_Chess/Uy1nDpsB">New in Chess</a> magazine from January 2011 until December 2018. During the <a href="/facts/World_Chess_Championship_2013/yGprCQs9">World Chess Championship 2013</a> he wrote a series of articles for <a href="/facts/The_Indian_Express/d81a1w3N">The Indian Express</a>. In 2014 he began writing a column for the <a href="/facts/Financial_Times/0ndae2YU">Financial Times</a>, interviewing <a href="/facts/Sol_Campbell/H7FWrEfS">Sol Campbell</a> in the first article.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29">29</a>
He has individually coached young prodigies <a href="/facts/Pentala_Harikrishna/j2DSTxtr">Pentala Harikrishna</a>, <a href="/facts/Sergey_Karjakin/a5hVSJom">Sergey Karjakin</a>, <a href="/facts/David_Howell_(chess_player)/FG0B6qjl">David Howell</a> and <a href="/facts/Parimarjan_Negi/Jy2ClHVd">Parimarjan Negi</a>. He worked as national coach of the <a href="/facts/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran/24yukge8">Islamic Republic of Iran</a> from 2006 to 2007. His first assignment led to their unexpectedly capturing a team bronze medal at the <a href="/facts/Chess_at_the_Asian_Games/Bug4JPJm">Asian Games</a> in <a href="/facts/Doha/sKFBtyal">Doha</a>, <a href="/facts/Qatar/K4EkNXJE">Qatar</a>, in 2006. In the nine chess events at the Asian Indoor Games in <a href="/facts/Macau/KEm5w6xH">Macau</a> 2007, Iran took a silver and two bronze medals.
Short was made an honorary Fellow of the then Bolton Institute of Higher Education in 1993, and was admitted to the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the <a href="/facts/University_of_Bolton/JfLWAHW5">University of Bolton</a> in 2010. In 1999 he was appointed <a href="/facts/Order_of_the_British_Empire/HlY9buuN">MBE</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30">30</a> in recognition of his chess accomplishments. In August 2005, he was unanimously elected secretary general of the Commonwealth Chess Association. He became its president in June 2006, stepping down in January 2008. He was the <a href="/facts/FIDE/8oWF3499">FIDE</a> delegate for the <a href="/facts/English_Chess_Federation/9l9Aww7e">ECF</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31">31</a> between 2009 and 2014.
During important chess events in recent years, Short is often engaged for commentary as part of live broadcasts on the Internet. Chess historian Edward Winter has named him one of the top five Internet broadcasters.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32">32</a>
In the Introduction chapter of his book Winning, published in 2021, Short said "This is my first book, and it has taken a global pandemic for me to write it" and "I must confess that all books with my name on the cover – and with profound apologies to those who bought them – were all ghost-written".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33">33</a>
An October 2021 blog post on Chess.com made the case that the anonymous grandmaster player "honestgirl" was, in fact, Nigel Short, based on their similar preferences for variations of the game, and based on the fact that "honestgirl" is an anagram of "Nigel Short".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34">34</a>

<h2 id="incidents">Incidents</h2>
See also: <a href="/facts/Ivan_Cheparinov/G0vKlFc9">Ivan Cheparinov § Handshake controversy</a>

In 2001, Short told <a href="/facts/The_Sunday_Telegraph/RplezRC5">The Sunday Telegraph</a> chess column that he believed he had been secretly playing the reclusive former chess champion <a href="/facts/Bobby_Fischer/J2gfeEyD">Bobby Fischer</a> on the online chess platform <a href="/facts/Internet_Chess_Club/k5xwNzaC">Internet Chess Club</a> in speed chess matches.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35">35</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36">36</a> Fischer denied ownership of the account.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37">37</a>
In January 2007, Short gave an interview to the Indian newspaper DNA, in which he called for an inquiry to examine allegations that <a href="/facts/Veselin_Topalov/SLH3Q8tF">Veselin Topalov</a> cheated during the World Championship in San Luis.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38">38</a>
In the same DNA interview, Short was critical of the role of members of the Appeals Committee at the <a href="/facts/FIDE_World_Chess_Championship_2005/zRXqzere">2005</a> and <a href="/facts/FIDE_World_Chess_Championship_2006/8habCaFo">2006</a> World Championships, in particular FIDE Vice President <a href="/facts/Zurab_Azmaiparashvili/RG6W90gJ">Zurab Azmaiparashvili</a>, whom he described as "singularly inappropriate for such work having, by his own admission, cheated in winning the 2003 European Championship." Azmaiparashvili filed a formal complaint to the FIDE Ethics Commission, which convened in July 2007. While dismissing the main complaints against Short, the commission sanctioned him for a minor violation of the FIDE Code of Ethics for his use of the word "dunderhead".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39">39</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40">40</a>
In 2015, Short claimed that men are biologically better suited to chess than women, and that women have other skills, citing his wife's superior emotional intelligence as an example. In response to widespread criticism for these comments, Short reaffirmed his position, claiming in an interview that "it's quite easy to demonstrate there is a fairly substantial gap between men and women" and dismissing his repeated defeat by <a href="/facts/Judit_Polgar/dKphBXJA">Judit Polgar</a> as "irrelevant".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41">41</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42">42</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43">43</a>

<h2 id="personal-life">Personal life</h2>
Short resides in Greece and married <a href="/facts/Drama_therapy/WJC3c2mA">drama therapist</a> Rhea Argyro Karageorgiou in 1987.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44">44</a> The couple have two children.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:45" href="#fn:45">45</a> He is an atheist.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:46" href="#fn:46">46</a>

<h2 id="chess-style">Chess style</h2>
Most-played <a href="/facts/List_of_chess_openings/3a8KKf58">openings</a> with the White pieces:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:47" href="#fn:47">47</a>

<a href="/facts/Sicilian_Defence/hJtITHK5">Sicilian</a> (561) 
 B90 B23 B40 B33 B32
<a href="/facts/Ruy_Lopez/6dTFrQEu">Ruy Lopez</a> (218) 
 C84 C92 C78 C86 C77
<a href="/facts/French_Defense/VjKSSlyh">French Defense</a> (155) 
 C11 C18 C10 C19 C01
<a href="/facts/Caro%E2%80%93Kann_Defence/h42SKa7l">Caro-Kann</a> (113) 
 B12 B10 B17 B11 B18
Ruy Lopez, Closed (109) 
 C84 C92 C86 C90 C95
<a href="/facts/Sicilian_Defence,_Najdorf_Variation/dn74BW9u">Sicilian Najdorf</a> (106) 
 B90 B92 B93 B91 <a href="/facts/Poisoned_Pawn_Variation/tMzbRxRA">B97</a>

With the Black pieces:

<a href="/facts/French_Defense/VjKSSlyh">French Defense</a> (233) 
 C11 C05 C18 C03 C02
<a href="/facts/Ruy_Lopez/6dTFrQEu">Ruy Lopez</a> (153) 
 C92 C72 C69 C95 C84
<a href="/facts/Queen%27s_Pawn_Game/j3LxFPLm">Queen's Pawn Game</a> (124) 
 E00 D02 A40 A46 A45
<a href="/facts/Queen%27s_Gambit_Declined/zvnCpwhb">Queen's Gambit Declined</a> (113) 
 D37 D35 D30 D36 D31
<a href="/facts/Nimzo-Indian_Defence/lwEGIaXu">Nimzo Indian</a> (104) 
 E34 E21 E42 E32 E41
French Tarrasch (91) 
 C05 C03 C07 C09 C04

<h2 id="works">Works</h2>
<ul><li>Short, Nigel (1989). Nigel Short's Chess Skills. <a href="/facts/Hamlyn_(publishers)/EqoaPR87">Hamlyn</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-600-55743-2.</li>
<li>Short, Nigel (1993). Chess Basics. <a href="/facts/Sterling_Publishing/66RY23hh">Sterling Publishing</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-8069-0798-3.</li>
<li>Short, Nigel (2021). Winning. <a href="/facts/Quality_Chess/n8awsxM2">Quality Chess</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-78483-159-2.</li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul>
<li>Chess portal</li></ul> 
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_chess_grandmasters/hhcGLjB4">List of chess grandmasters</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Chess News (1 June 2005), <a href="http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2426">"Nigel Short turns forty"</a>, Chess News, ChessBase GmbH, retrieved 5 March 2015</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Cathy_Warwick/5uP7rQbh">Forbes, Cathy</a> (1993). Nigel Short: Quest for the Crown. <a href="/facts/Cadogan_Chess/vTvpjfrs">Cadogan</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-85744-048-X.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Dominic_Lawson/0d8F7blL">Lawson, Dominic</a> (1993). The Inner Game. <a href="/facts/Macmillan_Publishers/enNEBMM2">Macmillan</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-333-60949-2.</li>
<li>Short, David (1982). Nigel Short, Chess Prodigy: His Career and Best Games. <a href="/facts/Faber_%26_Faber/CPvre283">Faber & Faber</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-571-11786-4.</li>
<li>Keene, Raymond (1992). Nigel Short: World Chess Challenger. Batsford.</li>
<li>Short, by R. O'Brien, Andrew Martin, and Jonathan Tisdall; Tournament Chess, London, 1993.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

<ul><li><a href="https://ratings.fide.com/profile/400025">Nigel Short</a> rating card at <a href="/facts/FIDE/8oWF3499">FIDE</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=12181">Nigel Short</a> player profile and games at <a href="/facts/Chessgames.com/nWjKcbLq">Chessgames.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.chess.com/players/nigel-short">Nigel Short</a> player profile at <a href="/facts/Chess.com/p4Shb28z">Chess.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/pgn/shortn-viewer.html">"Nigel Short's Collected Games" BritBase.info</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/short.html">"Nigel Short" by Edward Winter</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1">"No. 55513". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1999. p. 25. <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/55513/supplement/25" target="_blank">https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/55513/supplement/25</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Forbes, 1993, p. 3 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Lidz, Franz (11 July 1988). "SHORT ISN'T A LONG SHOT". Sports Illustrated Vault. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021. <a href="https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/07/11/short-isnt-a-long-shot-nigel-short-is-nearing-the-top-of-the-chess-world" target="_blank">https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/07/11/short-isnt-a-long-shot-nigel-short-is-nearing-the-top-of-the-chess-world</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">Lidz, Franz (11 July 1988). "SHORT ISN'T A LONG SHOT". Sports Illustrated Vault. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021. <a href="https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/07/11/short-isnt-a-long-shot-nigel-short-is-nearing-the-top-of-the-chess-world" target="_blank">https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/07/11/short-isnt-a-long-shot-nigel-short-is-nearing-the-top-of-the-chess-world</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">"Bolton Chess Club". Bolton YMCA. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2008. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080724103728/http://www.boltonymca.co.uk/8.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20080724103728/http://www.boltonymca.co.uk/8.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">Forbes, 1993, pp.10-11 <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Forbes, 1993, p.14 <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Forbes, 1993, p.3-4 <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">Forbes, 1993, p.8 and pp.31-32 <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">Saunders, John. "Nigel Short's Collected Games". BritBase.info. <a href="https://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/pgn/shortn-viewer.html" target="_blank">https://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/pgn/shortn-viewer.html</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">Forbes, 1993, p.11 <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">Winter, Edward. "6429. International Master title". Chess Notes. <a href="http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter65.html#6429._International_Master_title_C.N.s" target="_blank">http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter65.html#6429._International_Master_title_C.N.s</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">Friedel, Frederic (1 June 2005). "Nigel Short turns forty". ChessBase. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014. <a href="https://en.chessbase.com/post/nigel-short-turns-forty" target="_blank">https://en.chessbase.com/post/nigel-short-turns-forty</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:14">Goodman, David (25 January 1988). "Short Wins Again To Seize 2-0 Lead; Seirawan Loses To Speelman". Associated Press. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/c6ff0908e69130871a23c9d003d0693e" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/c6ff0908e69130871a23c9d003d0693e</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:15">Hillenbrand, Barry (20 September 1993). "Playing With His Fingertips". Time. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,979248,00.html" target="_blank">https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,979248,00.html</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:16">Hillenbrand, Barry (20 September 1993). "Playing With His Fingertips". Time. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,979248,00.html" target="_blank">https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,979248,00.html</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:17">"A Short King Walk - Nigel Short vs Jan Timman 1991". YouTube. 28 March 2017. <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnXeaag4YPY" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnXeaag4YPY</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:18">"Classic Footage of Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov | iChess.NET". <a href="https://www.ichess.net/blog/classic-footage-nigel-short-vs-garry-kasparov/" target="_blank">https://www.ichess.net/blog/classic-footage-nigel-short-vs-garry-kasparov/</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:19">Joseph McLellan (4 September 1993). "SLICK MOVES FOR CHESS". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/09/04/slick-moves-for-chess/458d13bb-2973-4c24-9b64-f7c5404ec139/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/09/04/slick-moves-for-chess/458d13bb-2973-4c24-9b64-f7c5404ec139/</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:20">"1993 Karpov - Timman : 1991-93 cycle : FIDE World Chess Championship". www.mark-weeks.com. Retrieved 3 August 2024. <a href="https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/9193fwix.htm" target="_blank">https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/9193fwix.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:21">"The king and I". The Guardian. 6 July 2006. Retrieved 8 August 2016. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/jul/06/chess.features11" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/jul/06/chess.features11</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:22">"100 Year History of the British Chess Federation". <a href="https://www.englishchess.org.uk/100-year-history-of-the-british-chess-federation/4/" target="_blank">https://www.englishchess.org.uk/100-year-history-of-the-british-chess-federation/4/</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:23">Upper, John (24 July 2013). "Short wins 2013 Canadian Open Championship". Chess News. ChessBase GmbH. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="http://en.chessbase.com/post/short-wins-2013-canadian-open-championship-250713" target="_blank">http://en.chessbase.com/post/short-wins-2013-canadian-open-championship-250713</a> <a href="#fnref:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:24">"Happy Birthday Nigel Short". June 2020. <a href="https://www.chess.com/blog/KingsBishop/happy-birthday-nigel-short" target="_blank">https://www.chess.com/blog/KingsBishop/happy-birthday-nigel-short</a> <a href="#fnref:24" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:25">Byrne, Robert (4 June 1991). "Chess". The New York Times. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/04/nyregion/chess-673191.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/04/nyregion/chess-673191.html</a> <a href="#fnref:25" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:26">"Amsterdam VSB (1991) (Games of Nigel Short)". <a href="https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=90251&pid=12181" target="_blank">https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=90251&pid=12181</a> <a href="#fnref:26" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:27">Crowther, Mark. "The Week In Chess 958". TheWeekInChess. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic958.html#4" target="_blank">http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic958.html#4</a> <a href="#fnref:27" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:28">"The election of Arkady Dvorkovich". 5 October 2018. <a href="https://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-election-2018-dvorkovich-wins" target="_blank">https://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-election-2018-dvorkovich-wins</a> <a href="#fnref:28" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:29">Short, Nigel (5 September 2014). "Chess grandmaster class: Nigel Short v Sol Campbell". FT.com. The Financial Times LTD. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="https://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0961fd7a-330e-11e4-93c6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3CSPiZPNh" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0961fd7a-330e-11e4-93c6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3CSPiZPNh</a> <a href="#fnref:29" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:31">"Board and Officers". Englishchess.org.uk. The English Chess Federation. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="http://www.englishchess.org.uk/about-2/ecf-officials/" target="_blank">http://www.englishchess.org.uk/about-2/ecf-officials/</a> <a href="#fnref:31" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:32">Winter, Edward. "Chess Broadcasts on the Internet". ChessHistory.com. Edward Winter. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/internetbroadcasts.html" target="_blank">http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/internetbroadcasts.html</a> <a href="#fnref:32" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:33">Short, Nigel. "Winning" (PDF). Quality Chess. Retrieved 3 November 2022. <a href="https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Winning-excerpt.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Winning-excerpt.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:33" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:34">"Who is Honestgirl??". 17 October 2021. <a href="https://www.chess.com/blog/thechesscorner64/who-is-honestgirl" target="_blank">https://www.chess.com/blog/thechesscorner64/who-is-honestgirl</a> <a href="#fnref:34" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:35">"Chess legend 'plays the web'". BBC News. 9 September 2001. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1533946.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1533946.stm</a> <a href="#fnref:35" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:36">"'Fischer' caught out". Telegraph.co.uk. 16 September 2001. Retrieved 8 April 2016. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4265656/Fischer-caught-out.html" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4265656/Fischer-caught-out.html</a> <a href="#fnref:36" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:37">"Chess960 (FRC): Fischer and 'Wild Variant 22'". chess960frc.blogspot.co.uk. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2016. <a href="http://chess960frc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/fischer-and-wild-variant-22.html" target="_blank">http://chess960frc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/fischer-and-wild-variant-22.html</a> <a href="#fnref:37" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:38">Tagore, Vijay (30 January 2007). "Short take: Veselin Topalov could have been cheating". DNA. Diligent Media Corporation Ltd. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1077079&pageid=2" target="_blank">http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1077079&pageid=2</a> <a href="#fnref:38" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:39">"Case N. 2/07 JUDGEMENT rendered by the FIDE ETHICS COMMISSION" (PDF). FIDE. 29 July 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2008. <a href="http://www.fide.com/news/download/Judgement02-07.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.fide.com/news/download/Judgement02-07.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:39" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:40">"FIDE Ethics Commission rules on Short and Topalov/Danailov". Chess News. ChessBase GmbH. 31 August 2007. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4083" target="_blank">http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4083</a> <a href="#fnref:40" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:41">"Nigel Short slammed by leading female chess players for saying women are not as good as men at the game". The Independent. 20 April 2015. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2015. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/nigel-short-slammed-by-leading-female-chess-players-for-saying-women-are-not-as-good-as-men-at-the-game-10188487.html" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/nigel-short-slammed-by-leading-female-chess-players-for-saying-women-are-not-as-good-as-men-at-the-game-10188487.html</a> <a href="#fnref:41" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:42">"Nigel Short says men "hardwired" to be better chess players than women". The Guardian. London. 20 April 2015. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/nigel-short-uk-grandmaster-men-hardwired-better-chess-players-women" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/nigel-short-uk-grandmaster-men-hardwired-better-chess-players-women</a> <a href="#fnref:42" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:43">Watson, Leon (20 April 2015). "Nigel Short: 'Girls just don't have the brains to play chess'". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2023. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/chess/11548840/Nigel-Short-Girls-just-dont-have-the-brains-to-play-chess.html" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/chess/11548840/Nigel-Short-Girls-just-dont-have-the-brains-to-play-chess.html</a> <a href="#fnref:43" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:44">Forbes, 1993, p.18 <a href="#fnref:44" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:45">"The chess games of Nigel Short". Chessgames.com. Chessgames Services LLC. Retrieved 5 March 2015. <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=12181&kpage=77" target="_blank">http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=12181&kpage=77</a> <a href="#fnref:45" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:46">""I am still slightly baffled as to how I, an oenophile, atheist Englishman, became Iran's national chess coach", writes Nigel in this eminently readable Times article." Chess in Iran – Nigel Short's illuminating report, ChessBase.com, 9 December 2007. <a href="http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4312" target="_blank">http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4312</a> <a href="#fnref:46" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:47">"The chess games of Nigel Short". <a href="https://www.chessgames.com/player/nigel_short.html" target="_blank">https://www.chessgames.com/player/nigel_short.html</a> <a href="#fnref:47" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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