Nigel Short

13th Bangkok Chess Club Open Tournament

Published April 16, 2013 | By Bart7

13th Bangkok Chess Club Open Tournament: April 14th to 21st at the Dusit Thani Pattaya in Thailand.

There are 24 GrandMasters and 3 WGMs along with over 175 competitors from at least 30 different countries …

Top Seed GM Nigel Short defeated in round 3 by IM Saptarshi Roy.

IM Saptarshi, Roy (2426) – GM Short, Nigel D (2697)

Top 5 after 3 Rounds

13th BCC Open 2013 Bangkok THA Sun 14th Apr 2013 – Sun 21st Apr 2013 Leading Round 3 (of 9) Standings:
Rk	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Gustafsson Jan	GM	GER	2621	3.0	6.0	6.00	2.0
	Hansen Sune Berg	GM	DEN	2561	3.0	6.0	6.00	2.0
3	Antonio Rogelio Jr	GM	PHI	2527	3.0	5.5	5.50	2.0
	Czebe Attila	GM	HUN	2479	3.0	5.5	5.50	2.0
5	Koneru Humpy	GM	IND	2597	3.0	5.0	5.00	2.0

Talking Chess Match

Published March 22, 2013 | By Bart7

GM Short, Nigel D (2697) – GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan (2568)
Talking Chess Match Classical Tehran IRI Rd 1 , 03.09.2013

Nigel Short played Ehsan Ghaem Maghami in a match of 4 classical, 4 rapid and 8 blitz games .

Short won the classical and rapid sections 3-1 and the blitz 4.5-3.5.

The Match took place March 8-12 in Tehran, Iran.
Every five moves, players go to a secluded room and record their thoughts on videocam.

Usually players give press conferences after the game and give their analysis. In Talking Chess, players share their analysis while the game is going on..

official site: http://www.talkingchess.com/page/about?lang=en

Tradewise Gibraltar Masters

Published February 1, 2013 | By Bart7

Nikita Vitiugov wins the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters

Vitiugov wins the Gibraltar Masters following a tense play-off against the 2012 winner Nigel Short. Nikita won the play-off 1.5 -.5

GM Vitiugov, Nikita (2694) – GM Short, Nigel D (2690) 11th Gibraltar Masters Tie-Break (2.1)

Nikita will also recieve top prize , a check for £20,000

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Short, Nigel D vs. Hartston, William R, BBC TV Master Game, ?, 1976.??.??, Round 1, 0-1

Published July 22, 2012 | By chessmaster

Click on the Board to play through the game

[Event BBC TV Master Game] [Site ?] [Date 1976.??.??] [Round 1] [White Short, Nigel D] [Black Hartston, William R] [Result 0-1] [WhiteElo ] [BlackElo 2445] [ECO E01]1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e6 5. g3 d5 6. Bg2 e5 7. Nc2 d4 8. f4 exf4 9. Bxf4 Nc6 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 11. Qxd4 Qxd4 12. Nxd4 Bb7 13. Nd2 O-O-O 14. N4f3 Bb4 15. O-O-O Rhe8 16. Ne5 Bxd2+ 17. Rxd2 Rxd2 18. Kxd2 g5 19. Nxf7 Ne4+ 0-1

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7th Edmonton International 2012

Published July 3, 2012 | By Bart7

Grandmaster Nigel Short wins this year main event with 6 wins 2 draws 1 loss.The Edmonton International Chess Festival, One of only two annual competitions in Western Canada that offers international norms opportunities.

IM Piasetski, Leon (2304) – GM Short, Nigel D (2705)
7th Edmonton International Edmonton CAN (Rd9), 2012.07.02

1.Nf3 d6 2.d4 Bg4 3.e4 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.h3 Bh5 6.Be3 Be7 7.Be2 a6 8.Nd2 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 O-O 10.O-O Nc6 11.Rad1 b5 12.f4 b4 13.Ncb1 Qb8 14.g4 Qb5 15.Qf3 Nd7 16.f5 h6 17.Rf2 Rae8 18.Rg2 Bg5 19.Bxg5 hxg5 20.c3 Nf6 21.h4 Nh7 22.hxg5 Nxg5 23.Qe3 f6 24.fxe6 d5 25.c4 dxc4 26.Nf3 Nxf3+ 27.Qxf3 Rxe6 28.d5 Ne5 29.Qh3 Qc5+ 30.Kh1 Re7 31.Rf1 Qd4 32.Nd2 c3 33.bxc3 bxc3 34.Rh2 cxd2 35.Qh8+ Kf7 36.Rxf6+ gxf6 37.Qh5+ Ng6 0-1

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Rd7 GM Short, Nigel (2697) – GM Hou, Yifan (2639){12th Bangkok Chess Club Open}

Published April 21, 2012 | By Bart7

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.

Rd7 GM Short, Nigel (2697) GM Hou, Yifan (2639){12th Bangkok Chess Club Open}

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Gibraltar Open Tournament 2012 (Final)

Published February 2, 2012 | By DoughBoy



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. . Congratulations to both players.

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London Classic 2011 / Round 7

Published December 10, 2011 | By DoughBoy

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.

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Boris Becker-Nigel Short [London Classic Exhibition]

Published December 6, 2011 | By Bart7

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

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London Classic 2011 / Round 2

Published December 4, 2011 | By DoughBoy

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 19^th 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.

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