Editing Nigel Short (section)

== Major tournament results ==
[[Image:Nigel Short (2005).jpg|left|thumb|Short at the 2005 [[Corus chess tournament]]]]
Short won the [[British Chess Championship]] in 1984, 1987 and 1998, and the [[English Chess Championship|English Championship]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/jul/06/chess.features11|title=The king and I|date=6 July 2006|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=8 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.englishchess.org.uk/100-year-history-of-the-british-chess-federation/4/ | title=100 Year History of the British Chess Federation }}</ref> He was the [[Commonwealth Chess Championship|Commonwealth Champion]] in 2004 ([[Mumbai]]), 2006 ([[Mumbai]]) and 2008 ([[Nagpur]]). He won the 2006 [[EU Individual Open Chess Championship]] in Liverpool and took a share of second place in 2008 when it was held there again. He has finished outright first, or tied for first, in dozens of other international tournaments, including [[Geneva]] (1979), [[Belfort]], World Under 16 (1979), the [[BBC Master Game]] (1981), [[Amsterdam]] OHRA (1982), [[Baku]] (1983), [[Esbjerg]] (1984), British Rapidplay Chess Championship (1986), [[Corus chess tournament|Wijk aan Zee]] (1986, 1987), [[Reykjavík]] (1987), Amsterdam VSB (1988, 1991, 1992, 1993), [[Hastings International Chess Congress|Hastings]] (1987/88, 1988/89), [[Pärnu]] (1996), [[Groningen]] (1996), [[Tallinn]]/Pärnu (1998), [[Isle of Man]] Monarch Assurance 1998, [[Dhaka]] United Insurance (1999), [[Shymkent]] (1999), [[Pamplona]] (1999/2000), [[Linares, Chile|Linares]] Open (2000), Tan Chin Nam Cup, Beijing (2000), Feria del Orinoco (2001) [[Ciudad Bolivar]], Sigeman and Co. [[Malmö]] (2002, 2009, 2013 joint first shared with [[Richárd Rapport]] and [[Nils Grandelius]]), [[Gibraltar Chess Festival|Gibraltar]] (2003, 2004, 2012), [[Budapest]] Hunguest Hotels (2003), Samba Cup, [[Skanderborg]] (2003), [[Taiyuan]] (2004), the Politiken Cup (2006), [[Bazna]] (2008), the [[Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament|Staunton Memorial]] (2009), [[Bangkok]] Chess Club Open (2011, 2012, 2015, 2017), [[Luanda]] (2011), 7th [[Edmonton]] International (2012), [[Bunratty]] (2012, 2016, 2017, 2020), RA Club [[Ottawa]] (2012), [[Pühajärve]] Rapid Chess Tournament (2012), Spicenet [[Tanzania]] Open (2013), [[PokerStars]] [[Isle of Man]] (2014), Zaw Win Lay Memorial [[Yangon]] (2014), the [[South African Open (chess)|South African Open]] (2015) the 1st Stars Cup in [[Bandar-e Anzali|Anzali]] (2016), the British Knockout Championship (2016), the [[Bacolod]] Negros Open (2017), the Pre-League Blitz Open in [[Kampala]] (2018), the GM Nigel Short Blitz in [[Lagos]] (2018), the Moja GM Tournament, in [[Kimberley, Northern Cape|Kimberley]], (2022), and the Turkmenistan Federation Cup Open Blitz, in [[Ashgabat, Turkmenistan]], (2024).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-11 |title=Legendary English grandmaster Nigel Short wins the chess tournament in Ashgabat |url=https://orient.tm/en/post/76268/legendary-english-grandmaster-nigel-short-wins-chess-tournament-ashgabat |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Orient |language=en}}</ref>

Short won the 50th edition of the [[Canadian Open Chess Championship]] in Ottawa in 2013, edging Canadian Grandmaster [[Eric Hansen (chess player)|Eric Hansen]] on tiebreak after both finished with unbeaten 7½/9 scores.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/short-wins-2013-canadian-open-championship-250713 |title=Short wins 2013 Canadian Open Championship |first=John |last=Upper |work=Chess News |publisher=ChessBase GmbH |date=24 July 2013 |access-date=2015-03-05}}</ref>

Arguably Short's finest tournament performance came at the [[Max Euwe Memorial Tournament|Amsterdam VSB]] tournament in 1991, where he tied for first place with [[Valery Salov]] ahead of both Kasparov and Karpov.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chess.com/blog/KingsBishop/happy-birthday-nigel-short | title=Happy Birthday Nigel Short | date=June 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/04/nyregion/chess-673191.html | title=Chess | newspaper=The New York Times | date=4 June 1991 | last1=Byrne | first1=Robert }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=90251&pid=12181 | title=Amsterdam VSB (1991) (Games of Nigel Short) }}</ref>