Nigel Short

Modern era · England · b. 1965

Britain's first World Championship challenger, against Kasparov in 1993.

Career In The Collection

1000Games
296Wins
405Draws
299Losses
50%Score
1980–2026Active
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Head-to-Head Records

Opponent Games Wins Draws Losses
Garry Kasparov 92 10 36 46 view games
Jan Timman 68 21 28 19 view games
Anatoly Karpov 40 7 20 13 view games
Vassily Ivanchuk 39 2 21 16 view games
Viktor Korchnoi 39 9 21 9 view games
Michael Adams 33 6 20 7 view games
Viswanathan Anand 27 5 13 9 view games
Vladimir Kramnik 26 4 11 11 view games
Boris Gelfand 24 12 7 5 view games
Judit Polgar 21 3 6 12 view games
Alexei Shirov 17 0 9 8 view games
Lajos Portisch 16 4 10 2 view games
Peter Svidler 14 2 10 2 view games
Veselin Topalov 14 2 5 7 view games
Sergey Karjakin 13 2 2 9 view games
Boris Spassky 12 2 8 2 view games
Gata Kamsky 12 4 3 5 view games
Hou Yifan 12 4 6 2 view games
Peter Leko 12 1 6 5 view games
Alexander Morozevich 10 4 3 3 view games
Bent Larsen 10 3 3 4 view games
Mikhail Tal 9 1 6 2 view games
Hikaru Nakamura 7 0 3 4 view games
Lev Polugaevsky 7 2 2 3 view games
Magnus Carlsen 7 1 4 2 view games
Fabiano Caruana 6 1 1 4 view games
Levon Aronian 6 1 1 4 view games
Vasily Smyslov 6 1 5 0 view games
Alexander Grischuk 5 1 3 1 view games
Anish Giri 5 1 3 1 view games
Arjun Erigaisi 3 0 1 2 view games
Ian Nepomniachtchi 3 0 2 1 view games
Gukesh Dommaraju 2 0 1 1 view games
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2 1 1 0 view games
Richard Rapport 2 0 0 2 view games
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2 2 0 0 view games
Alireza Firouzja 1 1 0 0 view games
Efim Geller 1 0 1 0 view games
Jan-Krzysztof Duda 1 0 1 0 view games
Nodirbek Abdusattorov 1 0 1 0 view games
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 1 0 1 0 view games
Svetozar Gligoric 1 1 0 0 view games
Vincent Keymer 1 0 1 0 view games
Wesley So 1 0 1 0 view games

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