GM Nigel D Short

Country

ENG

Birth Year

1965 (Age ≈61)

Gender

Title

Grandmaster

FIDE ID

400025

FIDE ratings

2594.0 0.0

Classical

Live rating

2551

Rapid

Published FIDE

2516

Blitz

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

World rank: #164
National rank · ENG: #6

Active players · Oct 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

FIDE rating history

Highest recorded rating: 2712 Apr 2004
Recorded years: 2001–2026
Archived games: 1073

Based on available monthly lists and saved games.

ECF ratings

English rankings

ECF code 118942G · Guildford · Latest available list 2022-05-01

2605Standard · Provisional

2898Rapid · Provisional

—Blitz

ECF rating history

Revised published ratings. Pre-July 2020 grades use a separate scale.

Published lists

Date	Type	Scale	Original	Revised
2022-05-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2022-05-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2022-04-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2022-04-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2022-03-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2022-03-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2022-02-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2022-02-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2022-01-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2022-01-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-12-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-12-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-11-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-11-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-10-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-10-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-09-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-09-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-08-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-08-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-07-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-07-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-06-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-06-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-05-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-05-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-04-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-04-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-03-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-03-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-02-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-02-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2021-01-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2021-01-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2020-12-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2020-12-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2020-11-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2020-11-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2020-10-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2020-10-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2020-09-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2020-09-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2020-08-01	rapid	rating	2898	2898
2020-08-01	standard	rating	2605	2605
2020-07-01	rapid	rating	293	293
2020-07-01	standard	rating	254	254
2020-01-01	standard	grade	254	254
2019-07-01	standard	grade	254	254
2019-01-01	standard	grade	260	260
2018-07-01	rapid	grade	293	293

FIDE rating history

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Available Games

Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-10-09 (UTC).

#	Date	Event	Site	Round	White	Black	Result	Moves	View
851	2012-06-27	7th Edmonton International	Edmonton CAN	1	Victor Mikhalevski	Nigel D Short	1-0	37	Open
852	1999-08-10	FIDE Championship 1999 — Khalifman 1st	Las Vegas	4.2	Short, Nigel D	Shirov, Alexei	1/2-1/2	36	Open
853	1999-08-09	FIDE Championship 1999 — Khalifman 1st	Las Vegas	4.1	Shirov, Alexei	Short, Nigel D	1-0	46	Open
854	1999-08-07	FIDE Championship 1999 — Khalifman 1st	Las Vegas	3.2	Short, Nigel D	Beliavsky, Alexander G	1/2-1/2	60	Open
855	1999-08-06	FIDE Championship 1999 — Khalifman 1st	Las Vegas	3.1	Beliavsky, Alexander G	Short, Nigel D	0-1	77	Open
856	1999-08-04	FIDE Championship 1999 — Khalifman 1st	Las Vegas	2.2	Fridman, Daniel	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	20	Open
857	1999-08-03	FIDE Championship 1999 — Khalifman 1st	Las Vegas	2.1	Short, Nigel D	Fridman, Daniel	1-0	29	Open
858	1999-05-21	Sarajevo	Sarajevo	5	Short, Nigel D	Topalov, Veselin	1/2-1/2	22	Open
859	1999-05-19	Sarajevo	Sarajevo	3	Kasparov, Garry	Short, Nigel D	1-0	40	Open
860	1998-06-25	Keres mem	Tallinn/ Parnu	5	Khalifman, Alexander	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	59	Open
861	1997-12-25	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	6.5	Short, Nigel D	Adams, Michael	1/2-1/2	54	Open
862	1997-12-25	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	6.7	Short, Nigel D	Adams, Michael	0-1	35	Open
863	1997-12-25	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	6.3	Short, Nigel D	Adams, Michael	1/2-1/2	66	Open
864	1997-12-25	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	6.4	Adams, Michael	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	28	Open
865	1997-12-25	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	6.6	Adams, Michael	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	45	Open
866	1997-12-24	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	6.2	Short, Nigel D	Adams, Michael	1-0	44	Open
867	1997-12-21	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	5.2	Krasenkow, Michal	Short, Nigel D	0-1	34	Open
868	1997-12-17	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	4.1	Beliavsky, Alexander G	Short, Nigel D	1-0	46	Open
869	1997-12-15	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	3.2	Sokolov, Andrei	Short, Nigel D	0-1	43	Open
870	1997-12-13	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	2.3	Kortschnoj, Viktor	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	59	Open
871	1997-12-13	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	2.5	Short, Nigel D	Kortschnoj, Viktor	1/2-1/2	52	Open
872	1997-12-13	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	2.4	Short, Nigel D	Kortschnoj, Viktor	1/2-1/2	50	Open
873	1997-12-13	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	2.6	Kortschnoj, Viktor	Short, Nigel D	0-1	25	Open
874	1997-12-12	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	2.2	Kortschnoj, Viktor	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	26	Open
875	1997-12-11	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	2.1	Short, Nigel D	Kortschnoj, Viktor	1/2-1/2	34	Open
876	1997-07-13	Dortmund	Dortmund	9	Short, Nigel D	Kramnik, Vladimir	1/2-1/2	26	Open
877	1997-07-12	Dortmund	Dortmund	8	Anand, Viswanathan	Short, Nigel D	1-0	48	Open
878	1997-07-09	Dortmund	Dortmund	5	Topalov, Veselin	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	43	Open
879	1997-06-23	Novgorod	Novgorod	10	Short, Nigel D	Kasparov, Garry	1/2-1/2	25	Open
880	1997-06-22	Novgorod	Novgorod	9	Topalov, Veselin	Short, Nigel D	0-1	60	Open
881	1997-06-20	Novgorod	Novgorod	8	Short, Nigel D	Kramnik, Vladimir	1-0	30	Open
882	1997-06-16	Novgorod	Novgorod	5	Short, Nigel D	Topalov, Veselin	0-1	45	Open
883	1997-06-15	Novgorod	Novgorod	4	Kasparov, Garry	Short, Nigel D	1-0	31	Open
884	1997-06-13	Novgorod	Novgorod	3	Kramnik, Vladimir	Short, Nigel D	1-0	58	Open
885	1997-05-22	Torneo Magistral 6th	Madrid	2	Topalov, Veselin	Short, Nigel D	1-0	69	Open
886	1997-04-10	Dos Hermanas	Dos Hermanas	8	Short, Nigel D	Karpov, Anatoly	0-1	39	Open
887	1997-04-09	Dos Hermanas	Dos Hermanas	7	Kramnik, Vladimir	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	25	Open
888	1994	Munich Express	Munich	-	Short, Nigel D	Kramnik, Vladimir	1/2-1/2	38	Open
889	1996	Parnu-A	Parnu	6	Khalifman, Alexander	Short, Nigel D	0-1	60	Open
890	1992	Candidats sf1	Linares	9	Karpov, Anatoly	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	63	Open
891	1993	PCA Championship 1993 — Kasparov - Short	London	15	Kasparov, Garry	Short, Nigel D	1-0	39	Open
892	1996	Novgorod	Novgorod	10	Short, Nigel D	Topalov, Veselin	1/2-1/2	47	Open
893	1990	Linares	Linares	9	Spassky, Boris V.	Short, Nigel D	1/2-1/2	28	Open
894	1997-12	FIDE Championship 1998 — Karpov 1st	Groningen	4.2	Short, Nigel D	Beliavsky, Alexander G	1-0	27	Open
895	1988	Thessaloniki ol (Men)	Thessaloniki	6	Kasparov, Garry	Short, Nigel D	1-0	23	Open
896	1992	Linares	Linares	5	Karpov, Anatoly	Short, Nigel D	1-0	37	Open
897	1994	Novgorod	Novgorod	3	Short, Nigel D	Kramnik, Vladimir	0-1	41	Open
898	1987	London m	London	4	Short, Nigel D	Kasparov, Garry	0-1	56	Open
899	1995	Novgorod	Novgorod	1	Short, Nigel D	Kramnik, Vladimir	1-0	55	Open
900	1997	Dos Hermanas	Dos Hermanas	4	Short, Nigel D	Anand, Viswanathan	1/2-1/2	48	Open