♦️ Today is birthday of Marie Sebag!!
French chess grandmaster

❤️🌹💐☘️🌷🌺🌸❤️ Happy birthday Dear Marie !! 👏👏👏👏
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#Short

🔸 Nigel Short
🔸 English chess grandmaster, Chess writer
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#Short

🔸 Nigel Short
🔸 English chess grandmaster, Chess writer

🔰 Nigel David Short is 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 Nigel Short 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 (Kasparov won, 12½ to 7½). As of February 2018, he is the oldest player ranked among FIDE's top 100 players and is ranked No. 65.

🔰 Chess achievements of Nigel Short:👇
IM (1979)
GM (1984)
British Champion (1984, 1987, 1998)
English Champion (1991)
European Union Champion (2001)
Commonwealth Champion (2006 & 2008)
Candidate (1985, 1988, 1991, 1994 (PCA))
World Championship Challenger (PCA) (1993)

🔘 Full name Nigel David Short
🔘 Country England
🔘 Born 1 June 1965 (age 53)
🔺 Leigh, England
🔘 Title Grandmaster (1984)
🔘 FIDE rating 2652 (October 2018)
🔺 (No. 55 in the March 2017 FIDE World Rankings)
🔘 Peak rating 2712 (April 2004)


♦️ A memorable game by Nigel Short 👇👇
▪️ Nigel Short vs Jan Timman
▪️ Interpolis 15th (1991), Tilburg NED, rd 4, Oct-21
▪️ Alekhine Defense: Modern. Alburt Variation (B04)

♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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▪️ Nigel Short vs Jan Timman
▪️ Interpolis 15th Tilburg 1991
🔸 PGN format
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Frans Kuijpers (Netherlands) faces Lev Polugaevsky (USSR). Next to Polugaevsky, his compatriot Ivo Nei is in play v. Moshe Czerniak Round 8, Hoogovens tournament at Bewerwijk, Jan 1966.

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White to move and win. From Alexander Khalifman vs Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Minsk, 1985.

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"When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'."

🔸 David Bronstein

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Amsterdam, 19th July 1971. Australian (later US) grandmaster Walter Browne, in play v. ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov (USSR) in the 9th round of the IBM tournament.

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🔸European Club Cup 2018
🔸Round 1
⚪️Fedoseev,Vladimir3 (2713)
⚫️Ledger,Andrew J (2353)
🔸1-0

12...Be7? [Black does not pay attention to the dangerous position of the queen on e4. He should have got rid of the queens with:]

[12...Qc2! 13.Qxc2 Bxc2=]

13.Rc1!+– [Now the Black's queen is trapped.]

13...Nxe5 [13...Qxg2 14.Bf3 Bg4 15.Bxg2 Bxd1 16.Kxd1+–; 13...Bg5 14.Nd2! Qxg2 15.Bf3+–]

14.dxe5 [14.Nd2?? Qxg2–+]

14...Qxe5 15.Qd4 Qxd4 16.cxd4+– 1–0

⚪️#33 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Lopez Martinez,Josep Manuel (2581)
🔸Guzman,Christopher (2283)
🔸World Chess Olympiad 2018 Batumi

30.Bb4! [A strong move in order to exchange the White bad bishop for the opponent's good one. After exchanging the dark-squared bishops, the c7–pawn becomes extremely weak.]

[30.h4 Qg4 31.Nf4 Bc8 32.Bh3 Qf3 33.Bg2 Qg4 34.Bb4 Bxf4 (34...Bxb4 35.Qxb4 Qd7 (35...Ng8 36.Qf8 Kh7 37.Bh3) 36.Qxe7 Qxe7 37.Ng6+) 35.exf4 Nf5 36.Re1 Bd7 37.Qb3 Nxd4 38.Qxd5 Nc2 39.Bf3 Nxb4 40.Qb3! Qf5 41.Qf7!!+– White queen penetrates with fatal effect. 41...c5 (41...Qc5 42.Qxd7+–; 41...c5) 42.Qf8+ Kh7 43.Be4; 30.Be1 h4 31.Bb4±]

30...Qd7 31.Bxd6 Qxd6 32.Nf4 Bc8 33.h4 g5 34.Ng6+ Kg7 35.Nxe7 Qxe7 36.hxg5 fxg5 37.Rc6 Be6 38.Bh3 [38.Be2! g4 39.Bf1 Bf7 40.Qf5 Ra1 41.Qf4+–]

38...g4 39.Bg2 Qf7 40.Qc1 Kg8 41.e4 dxe4 42.Bxe4 Qe7 43.Qh6 Bf7 44.Bh7+ Kh8 45.Bg6+ Kg8 46.Qh7+ Kf8 47.Qh8+ [47.Qh8+ Bg8 48.Rf6+ Qxf6 49.Qxf6+ Bf7 50.Qxf7#] 1–0