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Nigel Short

Nigel Short (born June 1, 1965 in Leigh) is an English chess player. In 1993 he played Garry Kasparov for the Professional Chess Association World Chess Championship, losing 12.5 - 7.5. He had won matches against former world champion Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman on his way to meeting Kasparov.

One of Short's best tournament results came at the Amsterdam VSB tournament in 1991 when he tied for first place with Valery Salov ahead of both Kasparov and Karpov. In April 2003 he won the Hunguest Hotels Super Chess Tournament held in Budapest ahead of Boris Gelfand, Judit Polgar and Peter Leko among others (Polgar and Leko were in the world's top ten at the time). In 2004 he won both the Commonwealth Chess Championship and the Gibraltar Chess Congress.

As well as his playing activities, Short writes the chess column in the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.

In recognition of his chess accomplishments, he was created an honorary OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire).

In the April 2004 FIDE rating list, Short was ranked number 15 in the world with an Elo rating of 2712, making him England's number two (behind Michael Adams).

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