Nigel Short
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"Nigel David Short" Order of the British Empire/MBE is an English chess Grandmaster (chess)/grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator. Short earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 19, and was ranked FIDE World Rankings/third in the world by FIDE from January 1988 to July 1989. In 1993 he became the first English player to play a World Chess Championship match, when he qualified to play Garry Kasparov in the World Chess Championship 1993 in London, but lost.

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We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

Well, Gibraltar is a place which you either love or hate. I quite like it. It's a rock, that is essentially what it is. It's a British colony.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

I have traveled all over the world, about 70 countries, and meeting so many foreign people leads to a greater appreciation of their culture.