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
Nigel Short quotes about
chess-game people ruthless
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.