Comments on: Many Happy Returns GM Nigel Short MBE (01-vi-1965) http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/01/many-happy-returns-nigel-short/ We focus on the British Chess Scene Past & Present! Tue, 31 May 2022 23:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Remembering David Hooper (31-viii-1915 03-v-1998) - British Chess News http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/01/many-happy-returns-nigel-short/#comment-42903 Tue, 03 May 2022 10:19:33 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=490#comment-42903 […] The Unknown Capablanca was published I asked for and received from David an inscribed copy for Nigel Short‘s ninth birthday., which I presented to him personally at an EPSCA team event. Curious to […]

]]> By: Happy Birthday Peter Markland (13-iv-1951) | British Chess News http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/01/many-happy-returns-nigel-short/#comment-16577 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:23:22 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=490#comment-16577 […] took any real interest in the game at 13 when I began to play schools chess. Compared with such as Nigel Short I was a very late […]

]]> By: Best Wishes GM Jonathan Mestel (13-iii-1957) | British Chess News http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/01/many-happy-returns-nigel-short/#comment-15343 Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:51:24 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=490#comment-15343 […] the record for the youngest qualifier. This record was later broken by Richard Webb and then by Nigel Short. His final score of was a creditable 6.5/11 giving him =5th overall aged 15 years and seven […]

]]> By: Birthday Greetings GM Jonathan Speelman (02-x-1956) | British Chess News http://britishchessnews.com/2020/06/01/many-happy-returns-nigel-short/#comment-6418 Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:07:45 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=490#comment-6418 […] the British Championship at Chester and there were no fewer than six International Masters; indeed Nigel Short succeeded in obtaining his first IM norm […]

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