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GM Nigel Short crushed by 18 year old WGM Nurgyul Salimova
Not in any way denying the misogyny of Nigel; it is his, and he should wear it. It is a fact that many, many chess players dislike him for. this.........it was dealt with adequately before me, I felt.
So I went on to other aspects of discussing Nigel; didn't see any need to be repetitive.
I don't think our posts made the earlier ones "go away".
I'll echo Bob's words as they are well said. Clearly he is a misogynist and he has never recanted (to my knowledge). However he is suffering from Covid and that is reflected in his chess play.
Enough said.
I'll echo Bob's words as they are well said. Clearly he is a misogynist and he has never recanted (to my knowledge). However he is suffering from Covid and that is reflected in his chess play.
Enough said.
I too would like to echo Bob Bob Bob Bob ob.ob ...
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
He's as strong as Canada's Bareev, but Anand tops the list of his contemporaries. And seniors Huebner, Gulko, Dorfman and Timman are still playing. And Spraggett is still in the top 10 seniors.
1. Anand, Viswanathan IND 2751 1969
2. Ivanchuk, Vasyl UKR 2678 1969
3. Gelfand, Boris ISR 2669 1968
4. Kozul, Zdenko CRO 2639 1966
5. Short, Nigel D ENG 2633 1965
6. Bareev, Evgeny CAN 2631 1966
7. Dreev, Aleksey RUS 2623 1969
8. Smirin, Ilia ISR 2614 1968
9. Illescas Cordoba, Miguel ESP 2613 1965
10. Dautov, Rustem GER 2596 1965
11. Sokolov, Ivan NED 2588 1968
12. Gurevich, Mikhail BEL 2579 1959
13. Christiansen, Larry USA 2577 1956 close to 65
14. Krasenkow, Michal POL 2576 1963
15. Huebner, Robert 2574 1948 top 65
16. Agrest, Evgenij 2568 1966
17. Georgiev, Kiril 2564 1965
18. Graf, Alexander GER 2562 1962
19. Jussupow, Artur GER 2559 1960
20. Agdestein, Simen NOR 2557 1967
21. Kaidanov, Gregory USA 2556
22. Novikov, Igor USA 2551 1962
23. Gonzalez Zamora, Juan Carlos MEX 2544 1968
24. Gulko, Boris USA 2542 1947 2nd 65
25. Nikolic, Predrag BIH 2541 1960
26. Huzman, Alexander ISR 2539 1962
27. Dorfman, Iossif FRA 2538 1953 3rd 65
28. Rozentalis, Eduardas LTU 2537 1963
29. Ibragimov, Ildar RUS 2533 1967
30. Timman, Jan H NED 2533 1951 4th 65
Certainly this was a poor game by GM Short, but give credit to the strong young woman who defeated him here!! Nigel, now at 56, is getting up there in age, and he has long had a problem with isolated bad games, even when he was world class. His prior illness was likely a factor. I can recall GM Spraggett taking him off in a terrific miniature at Gibraltar a few years ago. I think Nigel will still win some international events in the years ahead, when everything clicks for him. He probably doesn't need the money. He's got some regrettable views; he left school for chess in his teens, and didn't experience a wider intellectual interaction with his peers at university; in this he is similar to GM Bobby Fischer, who dropped out at 16, when he was already in the world's top ten players. I had the chance to speak with GM Short at the Canadian Opens in Ottawa, in 2007 and 2013, when I was part of the organizational teams, and was impressed with his friendly personal manner, as well as with his chess.
GM Judit Polgar reached the top ten in the world at her peak, I think reaching #7 overall at one stage, and defeated in individual games most of the world's top players. She is the top female player of all time. In my view, she retired with nothing more to prove. She wanted to get married and start a family, and time was starting to run out for her to do that, with the biological clock factor, an issue male players don't face. As far as having an overall woman's world champion, defeating everyone, I don't think we will see it in the next 20 years. But beyond that I think it is possible, and if it happens, the player will probably be Chinese.
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