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Short on the ECF, Rublevsky, Crimea, FIDE, Brunei
06.07.2006 – As a chess grandmaster he made it to a challenge for the world championship title, and at 41 he is playing quite successfully in top international events. But it is as a chess columnist that Nigel Short has really blossomed. Sacked after ten years work for the Sunday Telegraph, Nigel now produces an even more scintillating column for the Guardian. We bring you excerpts.

Nigel Short is back – in the Guardian
13.09.2005 – Just six weeks ago we reported that the conservative Sunday Telegraph had axed their star chess correspondent in favour of a second poker column. We received a lot of despairing feedback from readers and fans. So here's the good news: Nigel Short is back, this time working for a liberal newspaper, which will be carrying more chess than ever before.

Nigel Short axed, future world champion survives
28.07.2005 – For ten years Nigel Short has written one of the most provocative and entertaining chess columns in the world – in the Sunday Telegraph. Now the newspaper, under new ownership, has sacked their star columnist. In the "final episode" Nigel tells us how he recently almost changed the path of chess history.

The fake Heroes of Chernobyl revisited
23.05.2005 – A few weeks ago we reported on a tournament that had supposedly been held in Óity a Slavutich, Ukraine. Nigel Short commented on this fake event in his Telegraph column. Now the Ukraine Chess Federation tells us it has investigated and found that the event was indeed an 'open and shameless falsification'

On world chess and crapulent GMs
11.04.2005 – In recent days there has been a spate of articles, editorials and interviews on chess. Anand gave an interview to Rediff; Jon Speelman and Leonard Barden wrote columns in the Guardian; ACP president Joel Lautier was extensively interviewed by the Russian chess magazine 64-Chess; and of course Nigel Short did his thing in the Telegraph. Interesting material...

Short on beauty, Kasparov and the chess scene
03.04.2005 – Nigel Short's Sunday Telegraph column is informative and entertaining. It can also do wonders for your vocabulary. Nigel's prose is erudite and occasionally sesquipedalian (oh dear, now we have caught it!). But not to fear. Together with our excerpts we provide, as a reading aid, a special version of the Short English Dictionary.

Kavalek to Short: I am not dead!
01.02.2005 – In a recent Sunday Telegraph column Nigel Short wrote critically of his collaboration with former Czechoslovakian and US Champion, Lubomir Kavalek, who worked with the British GM during his bid for the World Championship title. Now Kavalek has sent us a reply, to which Short has reacted.

Blood-curdling, X-rated, kinky
10.01.2005 – Over the Christmas season Nigel Short's sometimes outrageous but always entertaining Sunday Telegraph column included stories involving blood-curdling, X-rated games and kinky self and reflex-mates. Even the Turkish government saw it fit to react to his provocations. Here for the curious are excerpts from his recent articles. Children, avert your gaze...

The name is Spassky – Boris Spassky
02.09.2004 – "If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company," writes Nigel Short in his always entertaining Sunday Telegraph column. He goes on to plead for more romance in chess, and tells of a brilliant King's Gambit game by Boris Spassky which was used in a Bond movie...

The dawn of a new era
06.04.2004 – Sunday Telegraph columnist Nigel Short was enchanted. "For the first time people could watch the European Women's Championship on TV, with the charming participants themselves presenting their strategic masterpieces – often in delightfully Russian-accented English." Nigel calls this development 'a new era in chess.'

David Norwood's Christmas Quiz
21.12.2003 – It's the time of year when Telegraph columnist David Norwood likes to test the chess knowledge of his readers. There are 20 questions, mainly relating to chess trivia, but some require thought and research. At least you have plenty of time to finish your turkey and Christmas pudding before you check your results. Here's the Telegraph quiz.

Nigel Short on the virtues of slavery
02.12.2003 – When the 19th century abolitionists put an end to forced labour did they consider how one can produce monumental architecture or play great games of chess if one has also to do the shopping? Sunday Telegraph columnist Nigel Short has found a solution to the problem. He also talks about the deadly dangers of chess travel and the latest Tony Miles hagiography. The word is explained here...

Yes, Virginia, there is humour in chess
19.10.2003 – GM David Norwood was confused. "On the ChessBase website there are not pages upon pages of dry annotations of the latest chess theory. The stories are fun and eminently readable." He got stuck on Plaskett's Puzzle and wrote his Telegraph column on the subject. Nigel Short and Malcolm Pein have also provided very readable articles.

Top columnists at the Telegraph
03.09.2003 – If you want news and gossip, on a weekly basis, the British Telegraph newspaper is a good address. It has three correspondents, GMs Nigel Short and David Norwood, as well as IM-journalist Malcolm Pein. In the past weeks the latter told us about the Staunten Memorial (won by Speelman), while the GMs handled more general subjects. Details...

For Sale: One World Chess Championship Match
21.08.2003 – "Price $1,000,000. Any offers above 50 quid considered." In his Telegraph chess column Nigel Short is always entertaining – and never diplomatic. This week he discusses the performance of Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Leko in Dortmund and takes a glum look at their prospects of finding a sponsor for their world championship match.