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Nigel Short: Major tournament results, International team record & Other activities

Nigel David Short MBE (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022. Short earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 19 and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from July 1988 to July 1989. In 1993, he became the first English player to…

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Nigel Short topic overview

The analysis highlights Major tournament results, International team record and Other activities as prominent areas in the source structure around Nigel Short.

Related topics
192
Source areas
12
Connected nodes
204
Extracted relationships
200
Concept neighborhoods
37
Bridge connections
204

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Major tournament results · 51 topics
International team record · 28 topics
Other activities · 26 topics
World Championship candidate · 19 topics
Match results · 18 topics
Prodigy to Grandmaster · 16 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Incidents · 6 topics
World title match, London 1993 · 6 topics
Early life, family, and education · 5 topics
Personal life · 5 topics
Publications · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Born
Nigel David Short (1965-06-01) 1 June 1965 (age 61) Leigh, Lancashire, England
Country
England
FIDE rating
2594 (August 2026)
Peak ranking
No. 3 (July 1988)
Peak rating
2712 (April 2004)
Title
Grandmaster (1984)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early life, family, and education

Prodigy to Grandmaster

World Championship candidate

World title match, London 1993

Major tournament results

Match results

International team record

Other activities

Incidents

Personal life

Publications

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Nigel Short connects Entity context

The extracted context around Nigel Short shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Nigel Short → Amsterdam OHRA, Amsterdam VSB, Anzali, Ashgabat, Bacolod Negros Open, Baku, Bangkok Chess Club Open, Barbados, Bazna, BBC Master Game, Beijing, Belfort, Blitz, Bridgetown, British Chess Championship, British Knockout Championship, British Rapidplay Chess Championship, Budapest Hunguest Hotels, Bunratty, Canadian Grandmaster Eric Hansen Another extracted example is Nigel Short → Biel Interzonal, Boris Gelfand, Britain's, Brussels, But, Canada, Candidate, Dutchman Jan Timman, El Escorial, Englishman, Eugenio Torre, Final, FM Graham Burgess, Gelfand, GMs John Nunn, Gyula Sax, He, In, Jan Timman, John. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Nigel Short

Top relations

related to Major tournament results · 83
Nigel Short → Amsterdam OHRA, Amsterdam VSB, Anzali, Ashgabat, Bacolod Negros Open, Baku, Bangkok Chess Club Open, Barbados, Bazna, BBC Master Game, Beijing, Belfort, Blitz, Bridgetown, British Chess Championship, British Knockout Championship, British Rapidplay Chess Championship, Budapest Hunguest Hotels, Bunratty, Canadian Grandmaster Eric Hansen
related to World Championship candidate · 43
Nigel Short → Biel Interzonal, Boris Gelfand, Britain's, Brussels, But, Canada, Candidate, Dutchman Jan Timman, El Escorial, Englishman, Eugenio Torre, Final, FM Graham Burgess, Gelfand, GMs John Nunn, Gyula Sax, He, In, Jan Timman, John
related to Further reading · 28
Nigel Short → Andrew Martin, Batsford, Best Games, Cadogan, Cathy, Chess News, Chess Prodigy, ChessBase GmbH, Crown, David, Dominic, Faber, His Career, ISBN, Jonathan Tisdall, June, Keene, Lawson, London, Macmillan
related to World title match, London 1993 · 20
Nigel Short → According, Botvinnik, British WIM, Cadogan, Cathy Forbes, Crown, FIDE, Florencio Campomanes, In, Kasparov, London, Manchester, October, Professional Chess Association, Quest, September, Short, Tal, The, The Times
related to Publications · 13
Nigel Short → Chess Basics, Hamlyn, ISBN, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Nigel, Nigel Short's Chess Skills, Quality Chess, Short, Sterling Publishing, Wikisource-logo, Winning
related to External links · 7
Nigel Short → BritBase, Chess, Chessgames, Edward Winter, FIDENigel Short, Nigel Short's Collected Games, Short
Born · 1
Nigel Short → Nigel David Short (1965-06-01) 1 June 1965 (age 61) Leigh, Lancashire, England
Country · 1
Nigel Short → England
FIDE rating · 1
Nigel Short → 2594 (August 2026)
Peak ranking · 1
Nigel Short → No. 3 (July 1988)

Important terminology

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Important terminology

short chess world championship fide nigel match first grandmaster 1993 british 2006 team london 1988 title games kasparov won international

Nigel Short relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 200 structured relationships around Nigel Short. Examples in this analysis include Nigel Short → Born → Nigel David Short (1965-06-01) 1 June 1965 (age 61) Leigh, Lancashire, England and Nigel Short → Country → England. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Nigel ShortBornNigel David Short (1965-06-01) 1 June 1965 (age 61) Leigh, Lancashire, England1.00infobox
Nigel ShortCountryEngland1.00infobox
Nigel ShortFIDE rating2594 (August 2026)1.00infobox
Nigel ShortPeak rankingNo. 3 (July 1988)1.00infobox
Nigel ShortPeak rating2712 (April 2004)1.00infobox
Nigel ShortTitleGrandmaster (1984)1.00infobox
Nigel Shortrelated to External linksFIDENigel Short0.60section
Nigel Shortrelated to External linksChessgames0.60section
Nigel Shortrelated to External linksShort0.60section
Nigel Shortrelated to External linksChess0.60section
Nigel Shortrelated to External linksNigel Short's Collected Games0.60section
Nigel Shortrelated to External linksBritBase0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Nigel Short bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Short, Grandmaster and Chess. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • World
  • nigel short
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    • Games
    • Match
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    • Player
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    • Citation
  • chess grandmaster
    • Short
    • Title
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    • Player
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  • third in the world by fide
    • Championship
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    • Match
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    • Kasparov
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    • Chess
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    • International
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  • pca world championship
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    • International
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    • Chess
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    • Championship
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  • british chess championship
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Nigel Short, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Nigel Short with Major tournament results. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Nigel Short — Major tournament results · splits 153 ⟂ 52
Nigel Short — International team record · splits 176 ⟂ 29
Nigel Short — Other activities · splits 178 ⟂ 27
Nigel Short — World Championship candidate · splits 185 ⟂ 20
Nigel Short — Match results · splits 186 ⟂ 19
Nigel Short — Prodigy to Grandmaster · splits 188 ⟂ 17
Nigel Short — Overview · splits 196 ⟂ 9
Nigel Short — World title match, London 1993 · splits 198 ⟂ 7
Nigel Short — Incidents · splits 198 ⟂ 7
Nigel Short — Early life, family, and education · splits 199 ⟂ 6
Nigel Short — Personal life · splits 199 ⟂ 6
Nigel Short — Publications · splits 200 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Nigel Short

Nodes205
Edges204
Triples200
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009756
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Nigel Short to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Major tournament results, International team record & Other activities, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Nigel Short · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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