# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nigel-short
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:26:29.677Z

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name: "Nigel Short"
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description: "Nigel David Short 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 play a World Chess Championship match, when he qualified to play Garry Kasparov in the PCA world championship in London, where Kasparov won 12½ to 7½."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump