Nigel Short

Nigel David Short is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator, born in 1965, who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022. He earned the grandmaster title at the age of nineteen 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, qualifying to meet Garry Kasparov in the Professional Chess Association world championship in London, where Kasparov won by twelve and a half points to seven and a half. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Birthday Honours for services to chess.