EnglandENG
ID: 437450

Nicholas Short

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FIDE ratings

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Performance

50 games
58% Win
12% Draw
30% Loss

Nicholas Short's playing style

Strong overall score:64%29W 6D 15L over 50 games
Dominates 1.e4 as White:90%in 15 games
In great form:98%19W 1D 0L in last 20 games

Openings as White

Among the openings shown, French Defense: Rubinstein Variation, Blackburne Defense has the largest White sample, with 2 games. Select a row to explore its moves and inspect example games below.

French Defense: Rubinstein Variation, Blackburne Defense
100%
2g
Petrov's Defense: Classical Attack, Jaenisch Variation
100%
2g
Caro-Kann Defense: Main Line
100%
1g
Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense
100%
1g
Ruy Lopez: Closed
100%
1g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation, Botvinnik-Carls Defense has the largest Black sample, with 4 games. These results describe the available sample, not a prediction of the player’s next choice.

Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation, Botvinnik-Carls Defense
100%
4g
Queen's Gambit Declined: Harrwitz Attack
100%
2g
Sicilian Defense: Godiva Variation
100%
2g
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Rubinstein System, Rubinstein Variation
100%
2g
Ruy Lopez: Closed, Keres Defense
100%
2g

Repertoire

17 games as white in scope
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Starting position

17 games in this line · White to move

Results for Short, Nicholas as white · Wins / Draws / Losses

W / D / L
82%
18%
Move
15 · 88%
80%
20%
1 · 6%
100%
1 · 6%
100%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Apr 19, 2026
OTB - TWIC
GMGorshtein, Ido(2554)
D—
Jan 29, 2013
OTB - Codekiddy
GMLe, Quang Liem(2705)
W—
Jan 29, 2013
OTB - Codekiddy
GMLe, Quang Liem(2705)
W—
Nov 25, 2012
OTB - Codekiddy
CMPuusepp, Kaimar(1981)
W—
Nov 25, 2012
OTB - Codekiddy
Rotov, Igor
W—
Nov 25, 2012
OTB - Codekiddy
Tuulik, Ylo
W—
Nov 25, 2012
OTB - Codekiddy
Vihmand, Ants
W—
Nov 25, 2012
OTB - Codekiddy
Rebane, Raul
W—
Nov 24, 2012
OTB - Codekiddy
Meidla, Lauri
W—
Nov 24, 2012
OTB - Codekiddy
Simson, Urmas
W—

Research Nicholas Short’s games and opening repertoire

Nicholas Short plays for England.

Nicholas Short has FIDE ID 437450.

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