Frases de Nigel Short

Nigel David Short é um enxadrista britânico, com título de Grande Mestre Internacional.

Em 1993 jogou contra Garry Kasparov a final do campeonato mundial de xadrez da PCA , que perdeu por 12,5 - 7,5. Para chegar à final, teve que vencer ao ex-campeão mundial Anatoly Karpov e a Jan Timman. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Junho 1965
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Nigel Short frases e citações

“Este é o fim de jogo mais básico que existe - rei e peão contra rei - e é mais complicado do que parece à primeira vista.”

This is the most basic endgame that exists - king and pawn versus king - and it is more complicated than it might appear at first sight.‎
Chess Basics - página 90, Nigel Short, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 1994, ISBN 0806907983, 9780806907987, 96 páginas

“Quando lhe oferecem empate, tente descobrir por que o adversário se acha em desvantagem.”

Nigel Short como citado em Xadrez de A a Z: Dicionário ilustrado - página 147 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=yCtCud47ed4C&pg=PA147, Rubens Filguth, Artmed Editora, 2009, ISBN 8536318368, 9788536318363
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Nigel Short: Frases em inglês

“They could start by removing some personnel: the head-butting, move-retracting, tournament-rigging, Zurab Azmaiparashvili for instance. He is a disgrace to the organisation. But never let it be said that he is a dunderhead.”

When asked how the World Chess Federation FIDE could be improved ( Nigel Short on FIDE: 'Either they don't know or they don't care' http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4192). Short had not long before been warned by the FIDE Ethics Commission for calling Azmaiparashvili a "dunderhead".

“Rublevsky is not a sexy player.”

on Sergei Rublevsky in his Guardian column. http://sport.guardian.co.uk/chess/story/0,,1808499,00.html

“A friend of mine recently joked that his mobile phone will beat Magnus Carlsen. I said, ‘What are you talking about? My microwave could beat Magnus Carlsen.</b”

Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/14/chess-grandmaster-caught-using-iphone-to-cheat-during-international-tournament/ (April 14, 2015)