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== Other activities == Short was appointed to serve as one of several Vice Presidents of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) in October 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-election-2018-dvorkovich-wins|title = The election of Arkady Dvorkovich|date = 5 October 2018}}</ref> He has written chess columns and book reviews for the British newspapers ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'', ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' and ''[[The Spectator]]''. He wrote for ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' for a decade and for ''[[The Guardian]]'' between 2005 and 19 October 2006. He reported on the [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2005]] in [[San Luis, Argentina]], for the ChessBase website. He wrote a column, "Short Stories", for ''[[New in Chess]]'' magazine from January 2011 until December 2018. During the [[World Chess Championship 2013]] he wrote a series of articles for ''[[The Indian Express]]''. In 2014 he began writing a column for the ''[[Financial Times]]'', interviewing [[Sol Campbell]] in the first article.<ref>{{cite news |first=Nigel |last=Short |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0961fd7a-330e-11e4-93c6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3CSPiZPNh |title=Chess grandmaster class: Nigel Short v Sol Campbell |work=FT.com |date=5 September 2014 |publisher=The Financial Times LTD |access-date=2015-03-05}}</ref> He has individually coached young prodigies [[Pentala Harikrishna]], [[Sergey Karjakin]], [[David Howell (chess player)|David Howell]] and [[Parimarjan Negi]]. He worked as national coach of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] from 2006 to 2007. His first assignment led to their unexpectedly capturing a team bronze medal at the [[Chess at the Asian Games|Asian Games]] in [[Doha]], [[Qatar]], in 2006. In the nine chess events at the Asian Indoor Games in [[Macau]] 2007, Iran took a silver and two bronze medals.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}} Short was made an honorary Fellow of the then Bolton Institute of Higher Education in 1993, and was admitted to the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the [[University of Bolton]] in 2010. In 1999 he was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]],<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/55513/supplement/25| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191123082738/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/55513/supplement/25| archive-date = 2019-11-23| title = Page 25 {{!}} Supplement 55513, 12 June 1999 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette}}</ref> in recognition of his chess accomplishments. In August 2005, he was unanimously elected secretary general of the [[Commonwealth Chess Association]]. He became its president in June 2006, stepping down in January 2008. He was the [[FIDE]] delegate for the [[English Chess Federation|ECF]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.englishchess.org.uk/about-2/ecf-officials/ |title=Board and Officers |work=Englishchess.org.uk |publisher=The English Chess Federation |access-date=2015-03-05}}</ref> between 2009 and 2014.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}} During important chess events in recent years, Short is often engaged for commentary as part of live broadcasts on the Internet. Chess historian Edward Winter has named him one of the top five Internet broadcasters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/internetbroadcasts.html |title=Chess Broadcasts on the Internet |first=Edward |last=Winter |work=ChessHistory.com |publisher=Edward Winter |access-date=2015-03-05}}</ref> In the Introduction chapter of his book ''Winning'', published in 2021, Short said "This is my first book, and it has taken a global pandemic for me to write it" and "I must confess that all books with my name on the cover β and with profound apologies to those who bought them β were all ghost-written".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Winning-excerpt.pdf|title=Winning|last=Short|first=Nigel|work=Quality Chess|access-date=3 November 2022}}</ref> An October 2021 blog post on Chess.com made the case that the anonymous grandmaster player "honestgirl" was, in fact, Nigel Short, based on their similar preferences for variations of the game, and based on the fact that "honestgirl" is an anagram of "Nigel Short".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chess.com/blog/thechesscorner64/who-is-honestgirl|title = Who is Honestgirl??|date = 17 October 2021}}</ref>
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