Wow, a lot of people dislike Nigel Short?
Nigel Short is a sexist buffoon
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who's nigel short. Am i missing something or what. I'm confused fr
Jun 25, 2024
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He is a British GM, most noted for playing (and losing badly*) to Kasparov in the PCA championship match of 1993. Currently he is an administrator for FIDE, and often called on by the press for opinions on current chess issues, since he's shameless and has a way with words.
*I should note that other than Karpov, everyone lost badly to Kasparov in matches. And tournaments, and pretty much anything else.
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You finally have to ask - what is the motive for it? Why use your name and influence in chess to discourage women from playing chess? In the end, it doesn't really matter what the "science" is or isn't. I'm sure there are "reasons" to explain why African-Americans generally make better NBA basketball players than Italian-Americans. Maybe it's demographics. Maybe it's cultural. Maybe it's biological. Who knows, who cares? But if you browbeat it enough, then young Italians might feel discouraged from taking up the game.
If Nigel Short wants to use his so-called chess fame to send a message, why not look to areas where people need help in our game? I haven't seen Nige doing much on inner-city, lower-income chess lately...if ever. Is it really so hard to be supportive, instead of dismissive? And think of the tax write-offs, if getting up from the keyboard and mingling with the hoi polloi sounds too painful....
Exactly this he's using his name and fide to discourage women from playing chess he's bad at promoting chesss I hate him as individual he should be banned for what he said infact any player who's sexist should be banned from ethical sport ship and the fact he lost to judit polgar and ju wen jun he's humilated rat that be put in fide why they put him I hate to see him even