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Fresh off his second place finish at the Canadian Open in Ottawa, Nigel headed to Montreal to compete in the 8th Montreal International Empresa. He lost to Miton with the Black pieces in round 1, Harikrishna with the White pieces in round 2, and Tiviakov with the Black pieces in round 3. This is quite shocking because I cannot remember the last time Nigel lost 3 straight games in a tournament. I hope there is nothing wrong with him physically.
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nigel Short has a toothache. He had to go to dentist in Montreal, was given a temporally relief, and has to visit his dentist as soon as he returns home.
short is way past his prime..
Does he smoke? It might be a problem if he does.
short is a good guy but he should stop playing and do only coaching now
“I hope there is nothing wrong with him physically.”
Well, I hope there is nothing wrong mentally …
Maybe if its physical its easy to fix.
Nigel about Gata Kamsky at the Press Conference: http://montrealchessfest2007.blogspot.com/2007/07/press-conference.html
Nigel Short:
What can I say? I have been playing chess for a very long time. My match against Gata Kamsky was by far the most unpleasant experience I ever had in my career. In essence Gata Kamsky won this match by cheating. His father threatened to kill me during the match. It was a very ugly incident. It had to be reported to the police. He (Rustam Kamsky) had to be pulled off me actually. So, quite frankly, I would rather not see him (Gata) But its not up to me, the organizers decide who is to participate. This is not my business. Gata Kamsky, if you talk to him now, I am sure you will find him to be a polite person. But its like someone who was part of a gangster group, and he would very much like to forget about these unpleasant parts of his past when he went everywhere with his father – who is nothing more than a thug. In other sports if you had a situation where a member of a delegation threatened to kill one of the players, and don’t forget Rustam Kamsky was a boxer, and, as far as I understand, had been in prison for such offenses, you would have an automatic disqualification, but for various reasons that didn’t happen. I am sure Gata Kamsky would like to forget about the influences of his father, but he benefited from it at the time. If I win this game it will give me more satisfaction than anything else.