The chess games of Nigel Short. IM (1. 97. 9); GM (1. British Champion (1.
Alexander Beliavsky Number of games in database: 2,292 Years covered: 1967 to 2015 Last FIDE rating: 2630 (2631 rapid) Highest rating achieved in database: 2710.
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Commonwealth Champion (2. Candidate (1. 98. PCA)); World Championship Challenger (PCA) (1. Background. Nigel David Short was born in Leigh in Lancashire, the second son of Jean and David Short. A bona fide chess prodigy, Short defeated Viktor Korchnoi in a simul at the age of 1. British Championships at the age of 1.
When he earned his International Master title at the age of 1. When he won the Grandmaster title at the age of 1. GM in the world at the time. He subsequently rose to dominate English chess in the 8. Anthony Miles, culminating in a challenge for the World Championship in 1. Championships< Youth> Short was =1st in the World U1.
Youth Championship held in Belfort in 1. Junior> He participated in four World Junior Championships from 1. He achieved his best result during his first attempt in which he placed second to Garry Kasparov in 1.
Dortmund.< National> In 1. British Chess Championship by qualifying three days before his twelfth birthday. When Nigel was 1. British Championship of 1. John Nunn and Robert Bellin, earning his first IM norm.
Short won the British Chess Championship in 1. English Championship in 1. He came =1st in the British Championships (2. Michael Adams. < Commonwealth and Continental> He won the Commonwealth Championships in 2. Commonwealth Championship (2.
Commonwealth and South African Open (2. He scored 7. 5/1. European Individual Championship held in Ohrid in the FYROM in 2. European Union Individual Championships (2.
Liverpool with 7. European Individual Championship (2. World> Short qualified to play in the Biel Interzonal when he placed =1st alongside Jonathan Speelman in European Zonal 1.
A held in Brighton in December 1. Subsequently, in July 1. Biel Interzonal with 1. John van der Wiel and Eugenio Torre in a play off for the fourth qualifying position to the Montpellier Candidates, thereby becoming Britain's first- ever candidate. Short did not win through to the semi- final Candidate Matches from the preliminary Candidates Tournament, scoring 7/1. World Championship challenge at this stage.
However, his participation in the Montpellier Candidates Tournament qualified Short to compete in the 1. Subotica Interzonal in which he scored 1. Speelman and Gyula Sax. In the preliminary match held in Saint John in Canada in 1.
Short defeated Sax (+2=3), but then lost by 3. Speelman in London later that year. This cycle was the last full undisputed FIDE controlled World Championship cycle until the Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match (2. Unification Match. During the next World Championship cycle, a last round victory over Mikhail Gurevich enabled Short to finish equal third with Viswanathan Anand, behind Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand at the Manila Interzonal in July 1. Candidate for the third successive time. In London in February 1.
Speelman in the tiebreaker by 1. He then proceeded to defeat Gelfand (+4=2–2) in the best- of- 8 quarter final match played in Brussels in August 1.
World Champion Anatoly Karpov by 6- 4 (+4=4–2) in the best- of- 1. Linares in April 1. In the best- of- 1. San Lorenzo de El Escorial in January 1. Short defeated Dutchman Jan Timman by 7. World Champion Garry Kasparov, who had successfully defended his crown three times against Karpov. According to Short and Kasparov, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes breached FIDE rules by deciding to stage the match in Manchester and to determine the prize fund without consulting them.
Short and Kasparov responded by forming the Professional Chess Association (PCA) and the resulting match—sponsored by The Times newspaper—was held under the auspices of the PCA in London, from September to October 1. Kasparov won by 1. Tal - Botvinnik World Championship Return Match (1. Short’s next attempt at the title remained under the auspices of the PCA.
Qualifying directly for the PCA Candidates match by virtue of being the losing challenger in the match against Kasparov, Short tied 4- 4 (+1 =6 - 1) with Boris Gulko in the best- of- 8 quarterfinal match held at the Trump Tower in New York City in July 1. He then bowed out to Gata Kamsky 5. Rejoining the FIDE cycle, Short competed in its 1. Knockout contest to determine the challenger to Karpov, the winner of the last FIDE cycle. He defeated Korchnoi 3. Andrei Sokolov 2- 0 in round 3, Alexander Beliavsky 3- 1 in round 4 and Michal Krasenkow 2- 0 in the quarter final before losing to Adams in the semi- final 4- 3 in the sudden death tiebreaker.
In the 1. 99. 9 FIDE Knockout contest for the World Championship, Short, again seeded directly into round 2, beat Daniel Fridman 1. Beliavsky in round 3 by 1. Alexey Shirov by 1. In the 2. 00. 0 event, Short was unexpectedly beaten 3. Frenchmen Igor Alexandre Nataf. In the FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2. Short was knocked out of the competition in round 1 when he was again unexpectedly defeated 1.
Argentinian GM Daniel Hugo Campora. In FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2.
Short defeated Yemeni IM Hameed Mansour Ali Kadhi 2- 0 in round 1, but lost in the 2nd round to Krasenkow 1. Short did not contest the FIDE World Cup (2. World Chess Cup (2. David Baramidze, the last time Short contested the World Championship cycle. Classical Tournaments. Short became the then youngest International Master in chess history, by scoring 8/1. Hastings Premier in 1.
He has finished outright first, or tied for first, in many international tournaments including Geneva (1. BBC Master Game (1. Amsterdam OHRA (1. Baku (1. 98. 3), Esbjerg (1.
Wijk aan Zee (1. 98. Reykjavнk (1. 98. Amsterdam VSB (1. Hastings (1. 98. 7/8. Pдrnu (1. 99. 6), Groningen (1. Tallinn/Pдrnu (1. Dhaka United Insurance (1.
Shymkent (1. 99. 9), Pamplona (1. Tan Chin Nam Cup in Beijing (2. Sigeman and Co. Malmц (2.
Gibraltar (2. 00. Gibraltar Masters (2. Hunguest Hotels Super Chess Tournament (2. Samba Cup (2. 00. Skanderborg (2. 00. Taiyuan (2. 00. 4), Politiken Cup (2.
Baku 2. 00. 8, Bazna King's Tournament (2. Sigeman & Co (2.
BCC Thailand Open (2. Thailand Open 2. 01. Luanda (2. 01. 1). In 2. 01. 2, he came =1st with Women's World Champion Yifan Hou at Tradewise Gibraltar (2. He then won the 1. Bangkok Open (2. 01. Adams in the unrated Bunratty Masters (2.
Adams in the tiebreak. Another good result was =2nd at Corus Group B (2. Fabiano Caruana, who won the event by half a point. In July 2. 01. 2, Short won the Edmonton International (2. In January 2. 01. Short again appeared on the leader board at Gibraltar, placing =1st with a score of 8/1. Maxime Vachier- Lagrave, Chanda Sandipan and Nikita Vitiugov at the Tradewise Gibraltar (2.
This time the tiebreak was a knockout blitz contest between the four players, the Tradewise Gibraltar (Tiebreaks) (2. Short eliminated Vachier- Lagrave 1. Vitiugov in an epic 2- game mini match to become runner- up in the event. A few months later in April 2. Short participated in the 1. Bangkok Chess Club Open, placing =8th (1. The following month in May 2.
Short came =1st (2nd on tiebreak behind Richard Rapport), with 4. Sigeman & Co (2.
Sweden and then in June 2. Tanzanian Open and came 2nd behind Lazaro Bruzon Batista in the 8th Edmonton International (2. In July 2. 01. 3, he won the Canadian Open with 7. October 2. 01. 3 he placed =2nd (3rd on tiebreak) alongside Alexander Moiseenko at the Indonesian Open after defeating him in the final round, a point behind the outright winner, Alexey Dreev. In October 2. 01.
Short returned to form after a prolonged slump during which he briefly left the world's top 1. At the Isle of Man, he won the Poker. Stars Io. M Masters (2. Laurent Fressinet, Sergei Tiviakov, David Howell (whom he defeated in the final round to clinch first prize) and Gil Popilski as well as lower placed super- GMs such as countryman Adams and others such as world #1. Maxime Vachier- Lagrave and Armenian #2 Gabriel Sargissian. Short also returned to the world's top 1.
November 2. 01. 4 FIDE rating list. In November 2. 01.
Short travelled to Burma to win the GM Zaw Win Lay Memorial International Open with 6. A few months later in April 2. Short won the Bangkok Chess Club Open (2.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly. In July 2. 01. 5, he won the South African Open with 9/1.
Aleksa Strikovic and Abhijit Kunte. Team play< Club tournaments> Short’s inaugural experience in the European Club Cup was in 1. SG Solingen (Germany) which came 4th that year. He again played for that club in 1. He played top board for Peristeri Athens in 1. Agrouniverzal Zemun (Yugoslavia) that also contained Anand, Kramnik and Gelfand. In 2. 00. 4, he won individual and team silver playing on board 2 for ЉK Bosna Sarajevo and again played for that team in 2.
He has played a total of 3. European Club Cup, scoring +1. Team championships> Short played top board for the England team in the First World U1. Team Chess Championship held in Viborg in 1. The 1. 4 year- old won six games and drew one, pulling a performance rating of 2.
FIDE rating was 2. He then went on to participate in the European and World Team Championships. His first taste of playing in the European Team Championships came in 1. IM Short played board 7 in the event held in Plovdiv, winning individual silver while his team came fourth.
He played board one in 1. Debrecen event, and an individual gold in 1. Pula. He again played for England in 2. Still playing for England during the World Team Championships of 1. Lucerne in Switzerland, he won individual silver in 1. Short scored 8/1.
Howard Staunton Memorial (Scheveningen Match) (2. United Kingdom and the Netherlands to help his team win the contest. He also won the Queens and Kings Match (2. Zhao Xue. He also played top board for London in the World Cities Team Championship (2. December 2. 01. 2 in Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. Despite his personal tally of two wins and a draw, London failed to make the cut to the round of 1.
Short has also participated in the Spanish Teams Championship, the French Top 1.
FIDE Online. FIDE Top players. Standard Top 1. 00 Players January 2. Rank. Name. Title. Country. Rating. Games. B- Year 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2.
Giri, Anish g NED 2. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2. Caruana, Fabiano g USA 2. Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2. Vachier- Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2.
Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2. So, Wesley g USA 2. Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2. Ding, Liren g CHN 2. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2. Harikrishna, P. g IND 2.
Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2. Li, Chao b g CHN 2. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2. Yu, Yangyi g CHN 2.
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2. Adams, Michael g ENG 2. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2. Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2. Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2.
Navara, David g CZE 2. Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2. Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2.
Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2. Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2. Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2. Rapport, Richard g HUN 2. Wang, Yue g CHN 2. Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2.
Korobov, Anton g UKR 2. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2. Wei, Yi g CHN 2. 70. Leko, Peter g HUN 2. Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2. Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2.
Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2. Ni, Hua g CHN 2. 69.
Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2. Naiditsch, Arkadij g AZE 2. Kryvoruchko, Yuriy g UKR 2.
Wang, Hao g CHN 2. Hammer, Jon Ludvig g NOR 2. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2.
Ragger, Markus g AUT 2. Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2. Howell, David W L g ENG 2. Rodshtein, Maxim g ISR 2. Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2.
Short, Nigel D g ENG 2. Granda Zuniga, Julio E g PER 2.
Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2. Matlakov, Maxim g RUS 2. Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2.
Kovalenko, Igor g LAT 2. Nisipeanu, Liviu- Dieter g GER 2. Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2. Bareev, Evgeny g CAN 2.
Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2. Artemiev, Vladislav g RUS 2. Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2. Hou, Yifan g CHN 2. Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2.
Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2. Mc. Shane, Luke J g ENG 2.
Shirov, Alexei g LAT 2. Postny, Evgeny g ISR 2. Lysyj, Igor g RUS 2. Sjugirov, Sanan g RUS 2.
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro g CUB 2. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2. Ivanisevic, Ivan g SRB 2. Amin, Bassem g EGY 2. Fedoseev, Vladimir g RUS 2.
Swiercz, Dariusz g POL 2. Laznicka, Viktor g CZE 2. Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2. Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2. Sadler, Matthew D g ENG 2. Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2. Duda, Jan- Krzysztof g POL 2.
Ganguly, Surya Shekhar g IND 2. Meier, Georg g GER 2. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2. Robson, Ray g USA 2. Bukavshin, Ivan g RUS 2.
Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2. Efimenko, Zahar g UKR 2. Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2. Movsesian, Sergei g ARM 2.
Zhigalko, Sergei g BLR 2. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2. Adhiban, B. g IND 2.
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