Nigel Short
Nigel Short
Nigel David Short MBEis an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator. Short earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 19, and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from January 1988 to July 1989. In 1993 he became the first English player to play a World Chess Championship match, when he qualified to play Garry Kasparov in the World Chess Championship 1993 in London, but lost...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionChess Player
Date of Birth1 June 1965
british either love quite
Well, Gibraltar is a place which you either love or hate. I quite like it. It's a rock, that is essentially what it is. It's a British colony.
confused sacrifice opponents
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
chess-game people ruthless
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
thinking work-out trying
If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off
play alcohol brain
I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.
hard-work coaching doe
I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.
logging chess giants
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
play perfect chess
I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ...
learning play guy
I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.
wings racist right-wing
Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.
talking serious problem
Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.
sports exhibitions poor
Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo