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13th Bangkok Chess Club Open Tournament

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.

13th Bangkok Chess Club Open Tournament

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:
RkNameTiFEDRtgPtsTB1TB2TB3
1Gustafsson JanGMGER26213.06.06.002.0
 Hansen Sune BergGMDEN25613.06.06.002.0
3Antonio Rogelio JrGMPHI25273.05.55.502.0
 Czebe AttilaGMHUN24793.05.55.502.0
5Koneru HumpyGMIND25973.05.05.002.0

Talking Chess Match

Talking Chess Match
Talking Chess Match
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..
 

Tradewise Gibraltar Masters

Tradewise Gibraltar Masters

Nikita Vitiugov wins the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters

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)
Tradewise Gibraltar Masters
 
Nikita  will also recieve top prize , a check  for £20,000
 

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

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


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

7th Edmonton International 2012

7th Edmonton International 2012

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

Gibraltar Open Tournament 2012 (Final)

 Gibraltar Open Tournament 2012 (Final)
 

 Gibraltar 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.

 

London 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.   London Classic 2011 / Round 7

London Classic 2011 / Round 2

by National Life Master Loal Davis

  London Classic 2011 / Round 2
Nigel ShortLondon Classic 2011 / Round 2 Vladimir KramnikLondon Classic 2011 / Round 2
 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. Be7London Classic 2011 / Round 2Short 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 London Classic 2011 / Round 2With 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 London Classic 2011 / Round 2In 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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