Nigel Short MBE (born June 1, 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is widely regarded as the strongest British chess player of the 20th century. Image File history File links Nigelshort01. ... MBE can stand for: Member of the Order of the British Empire Mail Boxes Etc. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Arms of Leigh Borough Council Leigh is a town located north of the East Lancashire Road between Manchester and Liverpool in the United Kingdom. ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... Chess is an abstract strategy board game and mental sport for two players. ...

A chess prodigy, Short first attracted significant media attention, as a 10 year old, by defeating Viktor Korchnoi in a simultaneous exhibition. In 1977 he became by far the youngest ever participant in the British Chess Championship by qualifying three days before his twelfth birthday. Two years later, at the British Championship in Chester 1979, the 14 year-old tied for first place with John Nunn and Robert Bellin, earning his first IM norm. He became the second youngest International Master in chess history, after Henrique Mecking, by scoring 8/15 in the Hastings Premier in 1979/80. Participating in four World Junior Championships (1980–1983), his best result was at first attempt - second, to Garry Kasparov, in 1980. He was awarded the grandmaster title in 1984, aged nineteen – the youngest in the world at that time. Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat Masters and even Grandmasters, often at a very young age. ... Viktor Korchnoi (also Korchnoy, Kortchnoy, Kortschnoj, etc) (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й) (born March 23, 1931) is a professional chess player. ... Chester is the county town of Cheshire in North West England. ... John Denis Martin Nunn (born April 25, 1955) is an English chess player and mathematician. ... The title International Master is awarded to outstanding chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. The title is open to both men and women. ... Henrique Mecking (born 23 January 1952; first name spelled Enrique in some references) was a leading Brazilian chess master in the 1970s. ... Shown within East Sussex Geography Status: Borough Region: South East England Historic County: Sussex Admin. ... Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: ; IPA: ) (born April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan) is a chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion. ... The title Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ...

Short’s assaults on the World Chess Championship title began in earnest in 1985 when he narrowly qualified from the Biel Interzonal to become the Britain’s first ever Candidate. The Montpellier Candidates Tournament brought him little success, however, as he scored 7/15 to finish in tenth place. In the next cycle, he again qualified by winning the 1987 Subotica Interzonal with Jon Speelman. The Candidates stage had by this time reverted to its traditional match format: Short defeated Sax (+2,=3) in St. John, Canada, in 1988, but then unexpectedly lost (-2,=3) to his countryman, Jon Speelman, in London. Current World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. ... Place du Ring in Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne is a town in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. ... Montpellier (Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ... Subotica city hall Subotica (Serbian: Суботица or Subotica, Hungarian: Szabadka, Croatian: Subotica, German: Maria-Theresiopel or Theresiopel, Slovak: Subotica, Rusin: Суботица, Romanian: Subotica or Subotita) is a city and municipality in northern Serbia and Montenegro, in the North Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. ... Jonathan Speelman (born October 2, 1956) is an English chess player. ...

His next attempt was to prove his most successful. A last round victory over Mikhail Gurevich enabled Short to finish equal third with Vishwanathan Anand, behind Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand, at the Manila Interzonal, thus qualifying as a Candidate for the third successive time. Defeating Gelfand (+4,=2,-2) in the 8/Final, he progressed to meet his former nemesis, Jon Speelman, in the quarters. This oscillating struggle went into extra-time in which the younger man eventually prevailed. In the semi-final the Englishman overcame the legendary Russian Anatoly Karpov (+4,=4,-2) in a match that was described as “the end of an era.” In the final, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Short defeated Dutchman Jan Timman (+5,=5,-3) to earn the right to meet defending World Champion, Garry Kasparov. Mikhail Gurevich playing the Cambridge Springs Defence for Bundesliga club side SG Porz Mikhail Naumovich Gurevich (born February 22, 1959 in Kharkov, USSR) is a Russian chess player residing since 2005 in Turkey. ... Viswanathan Anand (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. ... Vassily Ivanchuk (Васи́лий Ива́нчук), born March 18, 1969 in Berejiany, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. ... Boris Gelfand (born 24 June 1968) is a chess grandmaster. ... The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines. ... Anatoly Karpov Anatoli Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: ) (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. ... The facade of the chapel, in the baroque style of Jesuit churches, is integrated with the palatial facade El Escorial is an immense palace, monastery, museum, and library complex located at San Lorenzo de El Escorial (also San Lorenzo del Escorial), a town 45 kilometres northwest of Madrid in the... Jan Timman Jan Timman (born December 14, 1951) is a famous Dutch chessplayer who had his greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s. ...

When the then FIDE President, Florencio Campomanes, flouted the governing body’s own regulations by awarding the venue to Manchester, without taking into account the choices of the players, the two participants promptly formed a rival organisation - the Professional Chess Association. The resulting match – sponsored by The Times newspaper – was held under the auspices of the new body in London, September-October 1993. Kasparov won convincingly (+6,-1,=14). Florencio Campomanes (born 1927) is a Filipino chess player and organizer. ... The Professional Chess Association was created 1993 by Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short for the marketing and organization of its chess world championship, as a consequence of the then FIDE President, Florencio Campomanes, abrogating the voting rights of the players. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ...

Nigel Short at the 2005 Corus chess tournament

Short won the British Chess Championship in 1984, 1987, and 1998 and the English Championship in 1991. He became Commonwealth Champion in Mumbai, 2004, and European Union Champion in Liverpool, 2006. He has finished outright first, or tied for first, in dozens of other international tournaments including Geneva 1979, the BBC Master Game (1981), Amsterdam OHRA (1982), Baku 1983, Esbjerg 1984, Wijk aan zee (1986, 1987), Reykjavík (1987), Amsterdam VSB (1988,1991,1992,1993), Hastings (1987/80, 1988/89), Parnu (1996), Groningen (1996), Tallinn/Parnu 1998, Dhaka United Insurance1999, Shymkent 1999, Pamplona (1999/00), Tan Chin Nam Cup, Beijing 2000, Sigeman and Co. Malmö 2002, Gibraltar (2003, 2004), Budapest Hunguest Hotels 2003, Samba Cup, Skanderborg 2003, Taiyuan (2004) and the Politiken Cup 2006. Arguably Short's finest performance came at the Amsterdam VSB tournament in 1991 when he tied for first place with Valery Salov ahead of both Kasparov and Karpov. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 138 KB) Nigel Short at the 2005 Corus Chess tournament. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 138 KB) Nigel Short at the 2005 Corus Chess tournament. ... The Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijkin the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. ... The Commonwealth of Nations (CN), usually known as the Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of 53 independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former colonies of the United Kingdom. ... MumbaÄ« (Marathi: मुंबई, IPA: ), formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, and the most populous city of India and the world, with an estimated population of about 13 million (as of 2006)[1]. Mumbai is located on the west coast of Maharashtra. ... Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in North West England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German: //, Italian: Ginevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 743,905 (1 April 2006) Demonym Amsterdammer Coordinates Website www. ... Municipality: Baku Area: 1000 km² Altitude: -28 m Population: 2,074,300 census 2003 Population density: 1280 persons/km² Postal Code: +99450 Area code: 012 Municipality code: BA Latitude: 41° 01 52 N Longitude: 21° 20 25 E Weather types: 9 of 11 Mayor: Hajibala Abutalybov The Baku region. ... Old watertower in Esbjerg View to Esbjerg harbour from the watertower (May 2005) Map of the future municipality Esbjerg is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ribe County on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. ... For the town in Canada see Reykjavik, Manitoba Location in Iceland Coordinates: Constituency Reykjavík North Reykjavík South Area    - City 274. ... Groningen can refer to: A province of the Netherlands. ... Dhaka (previously Dacca; Bangla: ঢাকা Ḍhākā), population 12,560,000[1] (2005 UN projection for statistical metropolitan area), is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. ... Shymkent (Шымкент) or Chimkent, is a city and the capital of Ongtustik Qazaqstan (South Kazakhstan) Province, the most populated province in Kazakhstan. ... Pamplona (Basque: Iruñea or Iruña) is the capital city of Navarre, Spain. ... Beijing [English Pronunciation] (Chinese: 北京 [Chinese Pronunciation]; Pinyin: BÄ›ijÄ«ng; IPA: ), a city in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... View over Malmö IPA: /málmø:/ is the third largest city in Sweden, situated in the southernmost province of SkÃ¥ne. ... Nickname: Paris of the East, Pearl of the Danubeor Queen of the Danube Location of Budapest in Hungary Country Hungary County Pest Mayor Gábor Demszky (SZDSZ) Area    - City 525,16 km²  - Land n/a km²  - Water n/a km² Population    - City (2006) 1,695,000  - Density 3570/km... Skanderborg is a municipality in central Denmark, in the county of Aarhus, on the peninsula of Jutland. ... Location within China Taiyuan (Chinese: 太原; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Tai-yüan) is a prefecture-level city in China, capital of the Shanxi province. ... Valery Salov (born May 26, 1964) is a Russian chess grandmaster. ...

Short has enjoyed considerable success as a matchplayer, crushing the US Champion Lev Alburt in Foxboro 1985 by the score of 7-1 (+6,=2). He has also defeated Utut Adianto (+3,=3) in Jakarta 1995, Etienne Bacrot in Albert 2000 (+3,=2,-1), Hannes Stefansson in Reykjavík 2002 (+4,=1,-1) and Ehsan Ghaem Maghami in Tehran 2003 (+2,=4). Lev Osipovich Alburt (b. ... ... Utut Adianto (born 16 March 1965) is an Indonesian chess Grandmaster. ... Jakarta (also Djakarta or DKI Jakarta), formerly known as Sunda Kelapa, Jayakarta and Batavia is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. ... Etienne Bacrot (born January 22, 1983) is a French chess grandmaster. ... Tehran (IPA: ; Persian: تهران, also transliterated as Teheran or Tehrān), population 7,160,094 (metropolitan: 14,000,000[citation needed]), and a land area of 658 square kilometers, is the capital city of Iran and the center of Tehran Province. ...

A perennial fixture on the national team, Short won silver medals in the chess Olympiads of Thessaloniki 1984, Dubai 1986 (where he also took gold medal for the best individual performance on board three) and Thessaloniki 1988. He took a bronze in the Novi Sad Olympiad of 1990, and led the England team to victory in the 1997 European Championship. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Coordinates: Emirate Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Area    - City 4,114 km² Population    - City (2006) 1,241,000[1]  - Density 293. ... City motto: Град по мери грађана (English: City of the citizens) nickname: Serbian Athens Location in Serbia General Information Mayor Maja Gojković (SRS) (since 2004) Land area 129. ...

Short's highest world ranking (third) was attained during January 1988-July 1989. He reached his numerical peak ELO rating of 2712 in April 2004. In the July 2006 FIDE rating list, Short was ranked number 28 in the world with an Elo rating of 2676, making him England's number two behind Michael Adams. The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ... The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... Michael Adams Michael Adams who was born on October 17, 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, England is an International Grandmaster of chess. ...

As well as his playing activities, Short is a noted chess writer. He has written columns and book reviews for the British newspapers The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Spectator. He wrote the The Sunday Telegraph chess column for a decade. He most recently wrote for The Guardian, with his final column appearing on October 19, 2006. He also reported on the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 in San Luis, Argentina, for the ChessBase website. The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ... The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, a tabloid, first published in 1896. ... This article is about the British weekly magazine: there are articles on several other magazines called The Spectator such as Addison and Steeles influential literary magazine, The Spectator (1711), and the others can be found at The Spectator (disambiguation). ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 took place in San Luis Province in Argentina from September 27 to October 16, 2005. ... San Luis is a city in Argentina and is the capital of San Luis Province. ...

Short is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Bolton. In 1999 he was appointed MBE, in recognition of his chess accomplishments. In August 2005, he was unanimously elected Secretary General of the Commonwealth Chess Association. In June 2006 he became its President. He resides in Athens and is married to drama-therapist Rhea Argyro Karageorgiou. The couple have two children: Kyveli Aliki (born July 7, 1991) and Nicholas Darwin (born December 18, 1998). The University of Bolton (formerly Bolton Institute of Higher Education) is a university in Bolton in the United Kingdom. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína IPA: ) is the capital and largest city of Greece and the birthplace of democracy. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

In 2001, Short was in the news as the story broke that he had been secretly playing the reclusive former chess champion Bobby Fischer online in speed chess matches. Short later retracted the claim after Fischer himself denied it. Bobby Fischer. ...

Further reading

• Short, David (1982). Nigel Short, Chess Prodigy: His Career and Best Games. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-11786-4.

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