| Game |
| Result | Moves |
Year |
Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. P Wells vs Short |
 | ½-½ | 16 |
1984 |
London LB | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 2. P Velikov vs Short |
| ½-½ | 34 |
1984 |
Plovdiv | D59 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower |
| 3. L Spassov vs Short |
| ½-½ | 43 |
1984 |
Plovdiv | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |
| 4. Kasparov vs Short |
 | 1-0 | 35 |
1986 |
Brssel | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 5. Hjartarson vs Short |
 | 0-1 | 32 |
1986 |
Dubai (ol) 42/523 | D50 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 6. Ribli vs Short |
| ½-½ | 60 |
1986 |
Dortmund | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 7. Portisch vs Short |
| ½-½ | 20 |
1986 |
Brussels | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 8. Ribli vs Short |
| ½-½ | 37 |
1986 |
London | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |
| 9. Korchnoi vs Short |
| ½-½ | 20 |
1986 |
Brussels OHRA-A ,CBM 01 | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 10. E Grivas vs Short |
 | 1-0 | 25 |
1986 |
Olympiad | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |
| 11. Ulf Andersson vs Short |
 | ½-½ | 19 |
1987 |
It, Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands) | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 12. P Velikov vs Short |
| ½-½ | 39 |
1987 |
Slavija-Solingen 43/565 (Velikov,P) | D59 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower |
| 13. Karpov vs Short |
 | 1-0 | 44 |
1987 |
Podgaets,M, Bruxelles 43/557 | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 14. Beliavsky vs Short |
| 1-0 | 39 |
1987 |
Beograd 44/535 (Short,N) | D56 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 15. Speelman vs Short |
| ½-½ | 21 |
1988 |
Belfort WCup | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |
| 16. Karpov vs Short |
| ½-½ | 47 |
1988 |
Belfort WCup ;CBM 08 | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |
| 17. Timman vs Short |
| ½-½ | 24 |
1988 |
Tilburg | D59 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower |
| 18. Portisch vs Short |
| ½-½ | 30 |
1988 |
Thessaloniki | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 19. Pinter vs Short |
| ½-½ | 41 |
1988 |
Ch European Club | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |
| 20. Speelman vs Short |
| ½-½ | 23 |
1988 |
London 46/591 | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |
| 21. Korchnoi vs Short |
| 1-0 | 46 |
1988 |
Rotterdam 46/586 | D54 Queen's Gambit Declined, Anti-Neo-Orthodox Variation |
| 22. Ulf Andersson vs Short |
| 0-1 | 37 |
1988 |
Olympiad, Salonika (Greece) | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |
| 23. Smyslov vs Short |
| ½-½ | 14 |
1988 |
Hastings A2 | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 24. Ulf Andersson vs Short |
| ½-½ | 54 |
1988 |
Cup World (cat.15), Belfort (France) | D55 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 25. Yusupov vs Short |
| 0-1 | 61 |
1989 |
Rotterdam 47/539 | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |