Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Nigel Short

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British celebrity Nigel Short.

Last updated on April 18, 2025.

Nigel David Short is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach, commentator and, since October 2018, vice-president of FIDE. Short earned the Grandmaster title 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 play a World Chess Championship match, when he qualified to play Garry Kasparov in the World Chess Championship 1993 in London, where Kasparov won 12½ to 7½.

British - Celebrity | Born: June 1, 1965

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Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

Nigel Short

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Nigel Short

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

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Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Nigel Short

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

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I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Nigel Short

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

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Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo

Nigel Short

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Nigel Short

I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.

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Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.

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I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

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Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

Nigel Short

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Nigel Short