Editing Nigel Short (section)

{{Short description|English chess grandmaster (born 1965)}}
{{about|the chess player|the singer and choir director|Nigel Short (singer)}}
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{{Infobox chess player
|name = Nigel Short<br /><small>{{nobold|{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}}}}</small>
|image =Nigel Short (2018).jpg
|caption = Short in 2018
|birthname = Nigel David Short
|country = England
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1965|6|1}}
|birth_place = [[Leigh, Greater Manchester|Leigh]], Lancashire, England
|title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (1984)
|peakrating = 2712 (April 2004)
|peakranking = No. 3 (July 1988)
|FideID = 400025
}}
'''Nigel David Short''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (born 1 June 1965) is an English [[Grandmaster (chess)|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 [[FIDE world rankings|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|PCA world championship]] in London, where Kasparov won 12½ to 7½.

He was appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the [[1999 Birthday Honours]] for services to chess.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=55513 |date=12 June 1999 |pages=25  |supp=y }}</ref>