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KW Chess Club presents: "An Evening with Nigel Short" ( a talk by Nigel followed by question and answer) Tuesday, September 20, 2011 from 7pm to 10 pm in the Kitchener City Hall Council Chambers. Admission to the talk is $20. All chess enthusiasts welcome. Nigel Short is a former chess prodigy who qualified as the youngest ever participant in the British Chess Championship at age 11 and tied for first at age 14. He became the youngest grandmaster in the world (at the time) at age 19. Nigel rose to 2nd in the world and challenged Garry Kasparov for the World Championship in 1993. He has had a long and prosperous tournament career and currently is the oldest, age 46, in the top 100 players in the world. Nigel Short is also renowned as a chess coach of great players such as Sergei Karjakin, and Harikrishna and Negi, of India. As a commentator Nigel is much sought after and known for his ascerbic wit and chess anecdotes.
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Planning to attend: Mahmud Hassain, Raja Panjwani, Stuart Bevan, Mario Piccinin, Ralph Deline, Ed Thompson, Barry Forsyth, Garrett Forsyth, Patrick McDonald, George Dragasanu, Istvan Kiss, Hans Jung -
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30 chess enthusiasts were provided first class entertainment by Nigel Short yesterday evening. Some enterprising comments by Nigel were carried on the late news by CTV - a good quote was "Ive been checkmated all my life". The evening started with a unique gift to Nigel Short by the KW chess club. We noticed that Nigel Short has a very chessic name. If you look at NIGEL - you see NIG (knight on g1) and EL (knight moves to the E-line or file) which has been Nigel's favorite move in some openings (1.e4 c6 2.Ne2 and also in closed Sicilians etc). SHORT is a little harder to decipher but becomes apparent if you break it down SHO - R - t (or show the R a check, R=Royal) So obviuosly white knight must check the black king. The following maneuver Ng1-Ne2-Ng3-Ne4-Nf6+ if done with a flourish produces a S and N pattern and is a unique chess signature across the chess board! Another chess anagram from NIGEL SHORT is G-LINE H-SORT and the following composition illustrates beautifully the use of the G-file and all the pieces being sorted on the H-file. The composition starts with all eyes on the potential passed G-pawn. The position is: white king on f7, white bishop on h7, white pawn on g6, white pawn on h2, black king on h6, black bishop on g2. The only way to win is 1.Kg8 Be4 2.g7 BXB+ 3.Kh8 Kg6 4.h4 Kh6 5.h5 Zugzwang! (notice Nigel and Short are 5 letters and the key to the puzzle is 5 moves). Coincidently both the entertaining games that Nigel showed ended in zugzwang themes. Nigel started with a match game against Ponomariov when he was new FIDE World Champion. It was an Evans Gambit and developed in weird and wonderful twists of moves. According to Nigel - Ponomariov as Black was lost in 15 moves (although Nigel had played the same opening earlier in the match and Pono should have been prepared) However Nigel refused to put him away and both sides made several howlers (incredible blunders) although the high level tactics was over most of the audiences heads, and the game eventually ended up in a hellish bishop and rook pawn of the wrong queening colour square ending. Nigel showed this game at a lecture in St Louis last year and no less than Garry Kasparov kept putting his head in the door watching this entertaining game and his opinion was that the ending was winning for Nigel. Nigel however pointed out an idea where Black was drawing. According to Nigel: Garry is sometimes wrong but never admits it. The evening was filled with many entertaining anecdotes and jaw dropping moves and was thoroughly enjoyed by all.Comment
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