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The World Chess Championship 1993 was one of the most controversial matches in chess history, with incumbent World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and official challenger Nigel Short splitting from FIDE, the official world governing body of chess, and playing their title match under the auspices of the Professional Chess Association.
Nigel David Short MBE (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022. Short earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 19 and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from July 1988 to July 1989.
In 1993, Nigel Short won the Candidates Tournament and so qualified as challenger to Garry Kasparov for the World Chess Championship. [1]By FIDE regulation, the bids for where the World Championship final is played should have been decided by three parties – FIDE, the World Champion (Kasparov) and the Challenger (Short).
In 1992, Karpov lost a Candidates Match against Nigel Short. But in the World Chess Championship 1993, Karpov reacquired the FIDE World Champion title when Kasparov and Short split from FIDE. Karpov defeated Timman – the loser of the Candidates' final against Short. The next major meeting of Kasparov and Karpov was the 1994 Linares chess ...
Kasparov wins the PCA world championship match against Short by a comfortable 12½-7½ margin. FIDE remove Kasparov and Short from its rating list and arrange a rival world championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman, both of whom had been defeated by Short in the run up to the PCA final. Karpov wins the contest 12½-8½.
Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union) 1: 1987 Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union) Jan Timman (Netherlands) 2: 1988 Nigel Short (England) 3: 1989 Jan Timman (Netherlands) 4: 1990 Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) 5: 1991 Valery Salov (Russia) Nigel Short (England) 6: 1992 Nigel Short (England) Viswanathan Anand (India) 7: 1993 Nigel Short (England)
On February 15, 1985, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess ...
In 1993, following Nigel Short's victory in the Candidates Tournament, FIDE president Campomanes announced that that year's Championship would take place in Manchester, England. Both Kasparov and Short claimed that FIDE had made this decision without consulting either player, in violation of FIDE's regulations regarding the championship.