Nigel Short

postHeaderIconRd7 GM Short, Nigel (2697) – GM Hou, Yifan (2639){12th Bangkok Chess Club Open}

GM Nigel Short won the 12th Bangkok Chess Club Open 2012 with a score 8/9 . The 12th Bangkok Chess Club Open took place 13-19 April at Dusit Thani Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. There were over 230 players from 34 countries. 3r1rk1/4q1pp/p7/1p1P1B2/2p1PP2/4b3/P1Q4P/3R1R1K w KQkq – 0 251. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. e3 Bb7 5. Bd3 d5 6. O-O Bd6 7. b3 O-O 8. Bb2 Nbd7 9. Nc3 a6 10. Qc2 dxc4 11. bxc4 Bxf3 12. gxf3 c5 13. d5 exd5 14. cxd5 b5 15. Be2 c4 16. Ne4 Nxe4 17. fxe4 Qe7 18. f4 f6 19. Rad1 Rac8 20. Bd4 Nc5 21. Bxc5 Bxc5 22. Bg4 Bxe3+ 23. Kh1 f5 24. Bxf5 Rcd8 25. e5 Kh8 26. Qe4 Qc5 27. Bxh7 c3 28. Bg6 c2 29. Qg2 Bxf4 30. Bxc2 Qe7 31. d6 Qe6 32. Rde1 g5 33. Rf3 g4 34. Rf2 Qh6 35. Qxg4 Bxe5 36. Rxe5 Rxf2 37. Rh5 Rxd6 38. Rxh6+ Rxh6 39. Qc8+ Kg7 40. Qc7+ Rf7 41. Qg3+ Kf8 42. h4 Rhf6 43. Bb3 Rf1+ 44. Kg2 R7f6 45. h5 1-0480noc8d8

 

postHeaderIconGibraltar Open Tournament 2012 (Final)

 
 

 

Photo  Ray Morris-Hill

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Nigel Short and Yifan Hou tied for first in the Gibraltar Open Tournament 2012; the strongest open tournament (to-date) in all chess history.  Short won the tie-breakers (two rapids games); I’ve elected NOT to include those games in the attached pgn file/games (See Comments) as I think rapids games to tie-break classical chess tournaments is ‘unmitigated mule merd’.
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I think a breakdown of how each of these winners fared against players in excess of 2700 deserves a look.
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Yifan Hou (2605)

 

Win                  Almasi (2717)

Draw               Adams(2724)

Loss                 Sasikiran (2700)

Win                  Polgar (2710)

Win                  Li (2714)

Win                  Shirov (2710)

Draw               Mamedyarov (2747)

Nigel Short (2677)

 

Win                     Mamedyarov (2747)

Draw                   Le (2714)

Draw                   Almasi (2717)

Win                     Sasikiran (2700)

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I’m a tremendous fan of both players and am absolutely stunned/flabbergasted at the line-up and results from Hou.

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Congratulations to both players.

 

postHeaderIconLondon Classic 2011 / Round 7

 

King’s Gambit ! !

 

Nigel Short versus Luke McShane     0-1

 

It’s not that Romanticism is dead, but Short on the White/Swashbuckling side of the ‘most romantic of chess openings’ WAS.

 

Still – a valiant try – I wish Nigel well in his future encounters with this opening.

 

rnbqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/4PP2/8/PPPP2PP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq f3 0 2[Event "3rd London Chess Classic 2011"] [Site "London/UK"] [Date "2011.12.10"] [Round "7"] [White "Short, Nigel D"] [Black "McShane, Luke J"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C34"] [WhiteElo "2698"] [BlackElo "2671"]1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 h6 4. d4 g5 5. Nc3 d6 6. g3 fxg3 7. hxg3 Bg7 8. Be3 Nf6 9. Qd3 Ng4 10. O-O-O c6 11. Re1 Nd7 12. e5 dxe5 13. Bh3 Nxe3 14. Rxe3 O-O 15. Ne4 Nf6 16. Bxc8 exd4 17. Bxb7 dxe3 18. Bxa8 Nxe4 19. Qxe4 Qb6 20. Ne5 Rxa8 21. Qxc6 Qxc6 22. Nxc6 Re8 23. c3 Re6 24. Nxa7 Be5 25. Nb5 e2 26. Kd2 Bxg3 27. Re1 Bxe1+ 28. Kxe1 h5 29. Nd4 Ra6 30. a3 h4 31. Kxe2 g4 32. c4 h3 33. Kf2 h2 34. Kg2 Rh6 35. Kh1 g3 36. Nf5 g2+ 0-130nof2f4

postHeaderIconBoris Becker-Nigel Short [London Classic Exhibition]

r1bqkbnr/pppp2pp/2n5/1B2pp2/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R w KQkq f6 0 41. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 f5 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. exf5 e4 6. Ne5 Bxf5 7. O-O Qd4 8. Qh5+ g6 9. Nxg6 hxg6 10. Qe2 Bd6 11. g3 O-O-O 12. c3 Qd5 13. f4 Bc5+ 14. d4 exd3+ 15. Qf2 Bh3 16. Qxc5 Qg2# 0-160nof7f5

 Tennis Great Boris Becker makes a special appearance at this years London Classic .

postHeaderIconLondon Classic 2011 / Round 2

by National Life Master Loal Davis

 

Nigel Short Vladimir Kramnik
 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nd4 5. Nxd4 exd4 6. e5 dxc3 7. exf6  Qxf6 8. dxc3 Bc5 9. Qe2+ Qe6 10. O-O O-O 11. Qf3 d6 12. Bg5 Qf5 13. Be7Short was tempted into ‘winning’ the exchange (Diagram), however he neglected to see that it was possible for Kramnik to trap this dark Bishop with an ‘f6’ and it will never get out.  So – Nigel started to back peddle.
13. Be7 Qxf3  14. gxf3 a6 15. Ba4 b5 16. b4 Re8 17. Rfe1 Bb6 18. Bb3 Bb7 19. Kg2 d5 With this 19th move Black shuts out the light squared Bishop to the point where White is effectively a piece down.
20. Re5  c6 21. Rae1 Bc7 22. R5e2 Bc8 23. a4 Bd7 24. Bh4 Rxe2 25. Rxe2 Re8 26. Rxe8+  Bxe8 27. Bg3 Bd8 28. Be5 f6 29. Bb8 Bg6 30. axb5 axb5 31. Kf1 Kf7 32. Ke2 Ke6  33. Ke3 Bb6+ 34. Ke2 Bh5 35. Ba2 g5 36. Bb3 f5 37. Ba2 f4 38. Bb3 Kf5 39. Bd6  g4 40. Kf1 g3 41. fxg3 fxg3 42. Bxg3 Bxf3 43. Ba2 Be3 In the final position we can see that White never solved the problem of being down an entombed piece.

 

Not a difficult win for Kramnik, but very instructive.

 

postHeaderIconGM Short, Nigel (2698) – GM Sveshnikov, Evgeny (2514){18th European Teams}

rnbqkbnr/ppp2ppp/4p3/3p4/2P5/6P1/PP1PPPBP/RNBQK1NR b KQkq – 0 31. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. Qa4+ Nbd7 6. Qxc4 c5 7. d3 a6 8. Qb3 Bd6 9. O-O Rb8 10. a4 b5 11. axb5 axb5 12. Nc3 O-O 13. Bg5 h6 14. Ne4 hxg5 15. Nxd6 g4 16. Ng5 c4 17. dxc4 Nc5 18. Qd1 bxc4 19. Ra7 Qb6 20. Rxf7 Ba6 21. Qc2 Rxf7 22. Ndxf7 Qxb2 23. Qg6 Rf8 24. Rb1 c3 25. Nh6+ Kh8 26. Ngf7+ Rxf7 27. Nxf7+ Kg8 28. Rxb2 cxb2 29. Qc2 Kxf7 30. Qxb2 1-050nof1g2

Greece is hosting the 18th European Team Championship (Nov.3 -11) with 38 teams in the open group and 28 teams in the women’s group. Venue is the Olympic Hall Congress Center, within the 5-star Porto Carras Grand Resort in the Chalkidiki peninsula in northern Greece.

postHeaderIconKasparov vs Short Rapids Match

 

Kasparov won the match by a single point.  It was a match that was full of mistakes, but more importantly, excitement.  Every game was full of fight as both opponents went after each other, tooth nail and tongs, simultaneously throwing dust in their opponents eyes while they stomped through the mud.  A very exciting match.  The openings were a feast in and of themselves.  Nigel pulled out his Italian game twice with an Evans Gambit and a Two Knights Defense.  Although he did not fare well from a sporting perspective with these two openings, he also played and took Gary apart in a King’s Gambit.  All of the games were full of chances for both contestants and a close score was fully deserving which ever way the match fell.

 

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