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| Mar-21-11 | | zev22407: Short had a winning position in 2 games but failed to produce the win, he also refused to a a few draws . |
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| Aug-06-11 | | ToTheDeath: 32.g4!? was a very good move from a competitive standpoint, seizing the initiative in Short's time trouble. 36.Re7! wins for White. |
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| Dec-16-12 | | leka: Kasparov offered a draw in this game.Short said no for draw.Kasparov missed a win many times a final mistake was 36.bishop g7???? my 32mgz computer moves 36.rook e7!!!!! after 7 minutes tought.Kasparov played badly against Short in 1993.Also Kasparov should had lost to Anand WC match.Kasparov played against deep blue computer so badly.1.d3??? and played black 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d6???? kasparov played knight h7??? against deep blue |
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| Mar-21-13 | | humeanbeing: Short more than deserved his shot. Dominic Lawson's book The Inner Game is a superb account of his encounter with Gazza. I think it was game 16 that was one square away from being a masterpiece by Short. Will check... |
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| Mar-21-13 | | IndigoViolet: Short's almost-masterpieces were games 8 and 10. |
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| Sep-04-13 | | humilde artesano: Short defeated Karpov, true, but he was lucky to meet a Karpov in a very poor form. After this match the score between them is about 5-1 for Karpov (to be honest, at leasdt one win for karpov was a blitz game). Also in 1992 Karpov defeated Short in Linares (a tournament in which, by the way, Short was also defeated by Timman). So we got the most umbalanced world championship match in recent decades, in which the pretender was smashed by the reigning champion. Jeff Sonas (chessmetrics) places Short between the 5-10 best players around 1992. The peak of the english player was in 1988-1990, when at times he was among the 5th playes in the world (there are minor divergences between FIDE and Sonas's systems). In fact, this match has been till now Short's major success. And I am almost sure it will remain so till the end of his days. As we say in Spanish, "como el burro que tocó la flauta" |
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| Jun-24-14 | | RookFile: Played over this tonight, with fresh eyes, and found that Short was making one excellent move after another in defending this game. |
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Dec-05-16
 | | Phony Benoni: Kasparov's opponents were always short on time. They would have preferred a control of 40 moves in 2 weeks, not hours. |
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| Dec-05-16 | | YuvalKenoll: According to kasparov 33 h:g4！would have been very good for white |
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Dec-05-16
 | | offramp: Today's pun, "Short on Time", is a pun based on one of the players' names, Nigel Short. That player was in time trouble during this game. I did not find this pun particularly enjoyable or amusing. I entered it on the Harmison Index and it actually came up with a rating of "CRUEL", and I agree with that. |
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| Dec-05-16 | | catlover: This is probably a silly question, but if the last recorded move is Short's, how was it possible that he lost because his flag fell? If he lost due to time, shouldn't Kasparov's move be the last move? |
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Dec-05-16
 | | perfidious: <catlover>, if Short executed the move but failed to press his clock before the flag fell, the game score would include the final move. For another angle on failure to complete the time check, see the notes to A Ivanov vs Yermolinsky, 1993. |
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| Dec-05-16 | | catlover: Thanks, <perfidious>. My question flows out of my very limited tournament experience. |
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| Dec-05-16 | | kevin86: TIME!! |
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| Aug-04-18 | | Ulhumbrus: After 12...Qc8 White's KB ties a piece of much greater value- Black's queen - to the defence of the a6 pawn for a long time. This suggests that 12...Bxc4 is necessary. |
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| Apr-07-20 | | joddon: IN everybodys OPINION sHORT IS THE FLUKIEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME...he makes his last move and runs out of time after....how the heck?????????? |
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| Mar-07-21 | | rwbean: Decisive wins ...
33. hxg4 ♕xa5 +7.49 (52 ply, Stockfish 13)
36. ♖e7 ♕c8 37. ♕xc8+ ♖xc8 38. ♗xg7 ♔xg7 39. ♖d7 +7.63 (48 ply, SF 13) |
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Mar-08-21
 | | HeMateMe: What is the Harmison index?
the game looks drawish. white doesn't seem to have an entry point. |
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Aug-10-24
 | | keithbc: Seeing the great impact the first game probably has on Short's confidence, and knowing that digital clocks were available, I am left wondering - WHY WAS A DIGITAL CLOCK NOT USED FOR THE MATCH??? |
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Aug-10-24
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Keith,
They were not readily available then though Fischer - Spassky 1992 used a digital clock that could increment: see Fischer - Spassky (1992) for more details. In the other match taking place at the same as Kasparov - Short, the Karpov - Timman FIDE final, they used used mech clocks as well. A couple of years later, Kasparov v Anand, they used clocks that had a digital display but no increment. |
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| Aug-10-24 | | Olavi: It is good to see a real check clock instead of a digital annoyance - i had the opportunity to play a rapid tournament with them just the other week, what a luxury. Admittedly a digital display would have saved Short in the first game; but the increment is a wholly new consideration. |
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Aug-10-24
 | | MissScarlett: This was discussed a couple of years back: Kasparov - Short PCA World Championship Match (1993) (kibitz #286) |
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Aug-10-24
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Miss Scarlett,
I knew we had a discussion about it a while back but I'm now a non-sub till my horses start winning again (and they add Carlsen Bronze 2022 Olympiad medal to his bio) so I have lost the 'search kibitzers' feature. I won quite big last weekend but kept my money for the Festival when all the prices in Edinburgh go up. I had a good interview with this lad; Kevin James Doyle, https://www.arcadecomedytheater.com... in Sandy Bells. it will be in CHESS soon.
A really funny guy and his act is spot on, stacks of chess in it. He starts off with 1.f4 is a very bad move....I'm thinking, it's OK....later towards the end of the act you get the 1.f4 punchline. A well worked gag (and I'm going to nick it next time I do a demo. 1'll use 1.f3 for fear of copyright.) |
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Aug-10-24
| | MissScarlett: Need to have a look back at the chess magazines of the period to discover when digital chess clocks first came on the market. What alternatives were there to the Fischer clock? |
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Aug-10-24
| | Sally Simpson: I recall playing blitz with a digital clock for the first the late 80's The first models were expensive. |
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