Nigel Short vs. Judit Polgar - What a Turnaround

Another brilliant performance by Judit Polgar in a rapid game against Nigel Short.

[@dmaster20ify]

This is the perfect voice for Chess commentating.

[@RaziFakhrur]

I think it's GM Daniel King's voice

[@RaziFakhrur]

Search ''PowerPlayChess'' on youtube

[@kickoutdude]

I prefer Mato

[@cozm0859]

John Brown You clearly haven’t visited Mato Jelick and his channel. His voice is godlike when it comes to chess!

[@Shogo5000]

To me, this is the perfect voice for mute audio after 30 seconds

[@MotoGreciaMarios]

What a nice commentary. I loved the pace, the style and the analysis.

[@MrPicolina123]

The way Judit managed to deactivate Nigel’s knight, bishop and rock at the same time is just beautiful, this is exactly what alpha zero does nowadays, Polgar was a real chess star.

[@broken1394]

She still is!

[@mytube92369]

Incredible game, Judit is just amazing!

[@energeticenterprizes4974]

Beautiful comeback, Judit! Poise, patience and power...the trifecta you always display. Bravo!!!

[@colinjava8447]

It was great comeback, but was it flawed to start with? Meaning that she only won cause of shorts mistakes? It was only a 25min game I think, she might not have played so aggressively at the start if it was a long game, but thought due to the lack of time it was worth risking a crazy opening.

[@guidoheuts]

@@colinjava8447 That's what the game of chess is all about my friend, exploiting your opponent's mistakes. If no one ever made a mistake no single chess game would ever be won, and they would all end in a draw.

[@colinjava8447]

@@guidoheuts That's probably true, but chess hasn't been solved, we don't know if its a draw with best play, but I'm 99% sure it is as whites advantage should be too small to convert to a win. I haven't analysed the game, did short screw up from a winning position, or was polgar always ahead from the start?

[@ericmol2614]

There was no come back. If you understand that then you understand her preparation for Nigels usual French defense. She prepared for his game. She sacked her pieces for position. He was taking bait. He needed a come back not her. If you understand what I just said then you understand her play and positional play. Look at Josh Waitkin. He was winning a game by position then he lost a rook, then he lost a queen... his dad is upset. "You were winning Josh, why'd you do that"? Can he make a comeback?.... Come back from what? Take the rook, take the queen, who cares the game is about check mate and Josh got that. That's what Judith saw too. That's what Fisher sees. There are no weaknesses or come backs in the wake of check mate. Josh and Fisher got board of the game, that's why they left, they knew the positions. Nigel would be rated as the top blitz player in the world. He allegedly met up with Fisher online. I don't remember the exact results but Nigel got blown away by about 8 out of 10 or ten out of ten. You could dig up a recording of a game on KZbin. The other player didn't reveal his name but Nigel mentioned a date in time to the other player and within a second or 2 his opponent (most likely Fisher) responded with the name of a winning chess player from south America who Fisher may have had a match with. Fisher got board with chess opening theory. In his alleged game with Nigel, the opponent used a very irregular opening. It was original, creative and out of genius. He lost his queen, but did he make a come back? Come back from what? He was opening his position and pieces. Nigel never made a come back after taking those pieces and not playing position. Nigel played well but Judith played Nigel. Does Nigel know this yet? This defeat was a 2 edged sword because Nigel refuted women in the chess world. He arrogantly mocked them... she could have mocked him after this win, but she didn't, she didn't have to because she's better than him and this was the ultimate dagger. That game really tore him a new one as you understand the psychological build up to that match and his. He was a big balloon and she had a pin waiting to happen.

[@Tom-dt4ic]

This must be the funniest chess game in history. To see Short's face as he's getting his ass whipped...and Judit's surgical dismembering... LOL

[@MrSupernova111]

Love it!

[@jupiter-8405]

Wonderful game, wonderful commentary, wonderful archaic graphics!!

[@groovybuddha667]

I just love he queen of chess, she has incredible insight into the game.

[@debrag.c.3069]

Nigel seem to underestimated Judit early in the game. Brilliantly played Judit!

[@southparkninja3190]

Debra G.C. If you play the french it doesn’t mean you are underestimating your opponent.

[@paulepstein9739]

@@southparkninja3190 Yes, you are correct. I don't see any evidence whatsoever for underestimation.

[@palebluedot8733]

Yeah he totally underestimated her by playing french defense, should've gone for bongcloud defense instead.

[@bobradford2637]

Nigel must be having nightmares after these losses.

[@luisfernandoyepezsilva3245]

Beatiful video.Thank you very much!😊👌

[@yellowdart6666]

short is making his "BUT DAMMIT i WAS WINNING" face. :D

[@yggdrasil9039]

Classic game. Great stuff.

[@ri10q44]

I love these! Keep uploading please!

[@isaakvandaalen3899]

Me watching the game: "Damn Judit is getting crushed." *Three or four normal-looking moves later* Me: "Holy damn where did that attack just come from? Where are Nigel's pieces? What just happened???"

[@nigelsouthworth5577]

Thanks for your insight!

[@zebra3stripes]

In chess, as in life, the Short bishop gets no action in the end.

[@myphonediaz6973]

Thanks i had a good laugh at that one pretty clever :)

[@yanbox123]

This woman is a chess killer! Awesome! The best, simply!

[@gaspot007]

Judit Polgar is my favorite Grandmaster.

[@DexterHaven]

This video is mis-titled. It makes it look like Polgar is playing black, when she's playing white. Very misleading. It should be Polgar vs. Short.

[@andrewptob]

It's Short vs. Polgar, which is titled correctly. The subtitle is correct, too, because Nigel had a winning position and let it slip away.

[@nowekant93]

@@andrewptob No. Whoever plays white is mentioned first, it's as simple as that.

[@andrewptob]

@@nowekant93 Yes, I was incorrect.

[@Enigmaprince]

Wow that so educational game to watch. I love how she plays calmly and simple yet effective and demolishing such a joy to watch her style compared to Mikhal Tal which is unexpected, magical and from another planet :)

[@kingshearer2]

Fantastic game

[@talyannatal5969]

This is strategic

[@alexroc172]

what a lovely game!

[@MrUtubePete]

Nagyon szep, Judit

[@hammondvoodoo9555]

Cool game. After the opening I thought that this is already a winning position for black but then, to my surprise, all of a sudden white was much better. Judit - the best female chess player ever.

[@dionlindsay2]

Enormous bouquet? It couldn't have been any smaller! I think bouquet just has to go with enormous. I bet the commentator wished he hadn't said that. Either that or he's never bought flowers for anyone :-)

[@fredleoni3304]

Judith is fantastic

[@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar]

Would also like to commend the commentator on his intonation and accurate remarks while keeping the pace of the replay at a nice rate.

[@russellallan8442]

@9.48 the king cant go f8, because the white pawn is on e7 - where it moved to reveal the discovered check by the bishop. SHort's only move is to either block with the rook or the bishop on e6 but it only delays the inevitable. Very open game and Polgar showing why she is such a beast.

[@gerrylast3553]

4:46. the turnaround. But watch the whole game to experience the brilliancy of Judit Polgár.

[@ilmeni541]

"People who celebrated too early: Chess edition"

[@MArk-yn4sp]

Would it not be correct that the title reflects who plays white, i.e. 'Judit Polgar vs. Nigel Short - What a Turnaround'? Just asking. tks

[@JA-xv3qp]

Fun fact: Polgár means citizen.

[@paololuckyluke2854]

Fun fact about another female chess master, from Georgia: Nazi Paikidze. Nazí means gentle. Paikidze means the son of a pawn.

[@JA-xv3qp]

@@paololuckyluke2854 Nazi really means gentle? Wow! :D

[@paololuckyluke2854]

@@JA-xv3qp Yes, it’s all there in the Wiki. Of course, it’s clear why that causes some surprise, and there is a sort of parallel in the surprise one has when discovering the swastika is actually a Hinduist good luck symbol.

[@afonsosousa2684]

@@JA-xv3qp Could've fooled me!

[@irrelevance3859]

This was great chess commentary

[@maxpheby7287]

After everything that was said only Nigel Short could lose this game lol.But then Polgar was a really strong player at this time.

[@mizofan]

Not only Short could lose to her- 11 male world champions did, including Kasparov, Karpov, Carlsen, Anand and Kramnik

[@arkos1179]

@@mizofan losing is the wrong word, as wc have very one sided resukts against her

[@nicholaswideman6658]

Whats that song by Paul McCartney and the wings!? King on the run! King on the RUN!

[@alfredcayman9485]

The key move is A-four after which white's rook comes in and her king has what looks like a normal castled position. The French often leads to a bottled up queenside.

[@paulepstein9739]

"Capturing the rook in the corner also looks completely winning." With the benefit of Stockfish, we now know that this line is actually drawn with best play. The only way to prevent Polgar's attack is to draw by perpetual check. Probably Polgar (and her team) prepared all this.

[@jedinxf7]

she'd have had to prepare it without computers to assist... back when home analysis was legitimate work

[@hungrrry]

well if that was prep nobody saw that bd7 would have been crushing for black!?

[@davidsinclair7439]

Apparently not. Polgar herself says in her autobiography, about this game, specifically: "I didn't do any special preparation for rapid games in those days, and was focusing more on having fun". Even 30 years later, watching her clobber Nigel Short (a bit of a tit by all accounts) is still fun.

[@chvsanchez]

Too little real video of the players.

[@jainpaigemilan4215]

wow!

[@colinjava8447]

Na8, lol, what a sad move.

[@Orion-zq8jf]

Brutal

[@taylorpeppers5012]

That was the most non enormous bouquet I've ever seen

[@scottywarren3498]

The knight to g7 was brilliant

[@jedinxf7]

it's crazy how disastrous the opening looked for her and how quickly she turned it into a killer attack. it almost looks like an elaborate intentional exchange sac!

[@RaniaIsAwesome]

Nigel: "And then of course I performed my outrageous king walk against Timman...". Judith: "Hold my scrunchie...".

[@brianel-khoury885]

Absolute queen. Brilliant b3 kb1 a4 ra2 and those bishops. trashing this opening prep advantage like that over the board must feels great

[@mplites7160]

i love you judit😘

[@bigstar66]

Stockfish says a5 was the blunder that sunk Short. From 2.5 to 8. So yes, Polgar was not only "actually winning" but BTFOing him.

[@Narrowcros]

Short had a strong advantage out of the opening, for some reason decided to play passively after that and got punished.

[@sylvesteruchia5263]

His problem was actually playing too aggressive. He should've tried to run his queen away and not turned it into a target. Also not castling might've saved him

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of Nigel Short vs. Judit Polgar - What a Turnaround momentum 100

[@abdulbasit-cn9ek]

4:17 hows would that develop to checkmate?

[@ardweaden]

What do you mean? He gives the variations.

[@abdulbasit-cn9ek]

@@ardweaden Ok, i see how the situation at 4:17 can turn into the victory for black. Thanks for responding anyway.

[@michaelmacdonald2907]

Even when Judit plays what looks to be an ugly opening - it turns out beautiful

[@colinjava8447]

With the black queen down the bottom end short has too many queen moves to play, whereas polgar develops her pieces whilst pushing the black queen out of her half of the board. Should short have won it once his queen entered the bottom half of the board from an engine's perspective? Would be interesting to see the best line of play from there.

[@ItsAllAboutGuitar]

Why the hell would he take the rook and let her out of trouble!?!??!

[@prudvitheja134]

Intel keeping its brand image by associating itself with chess (intelligent games) - marketing

[@iDigaNicePony]

Nigel Short just doesn't have the brains to play chess against Judit Polgar

[@miguelmichel68]

come back, baby come back!

[@amarjanuwithsanuandpanu4376]

judit is the most beautiful chess player ever

[@ardweaden]

Check out Triin Narva

[@jeremybeadleslefthand480]

Come on...I wouldn't say no to Judit but have you not seen other female players? Some stunned out there!

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

Andrea Botez

[@raginbakin1430]

who cares about their physical beauty, I care about the beauty of their intellectual ideas. They’re chess players, not models

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

@@raginbakin1430 Andrea Botez.

[@ablejack3]

The continuation is flawed. After Short resigns the threat is not e7+, it's e7 mate. There is no possible f8 after e7, of course.

[@ablejack3]

Oh yes, I see. Sorry, I thought you had supposed Kf8 in answer to e7. / I am aware it is black's turn at that point. No worries.

[@jalajupadhyay1491]

It is Black chance to move, so it can make the move Kf8. e7 is mate only if Black does not move its King.

[@user-ri6rs9is8d]

Mm... May be - Judit Polgar vs Nigel Short ?......

[@agfd5659]

You are correct

[@armtwister]

Commentary by GM Daniel King, i presume.

[@Jesusandbible]

taking the rook ws a complete blunder

[@liammcooper]

"Women can't play chess" - Nigel Short What a dullard.

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

Except that's not a Short quote but you earn some social justice points.

[@liammcooper]

@@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser Yeah he did. "Girls don't have the brains to play chess". He also doubled down and gave an incredibly stupid television interview. But keep deflecting for your liver-lipped idol, idgaf.

[@gpbear2529]

@@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser He did say that though lol. Nigel Short fans cant even admit when they're wrong. Not surprising

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

Well if he really said "Girls don't have the brains to play chess" then I don't agree with him, that's not different from "Women can't play chess". Happy to clear that out guys.

[@broken1394]

Short coming up short.

[@murniatisinaga4472]

She is beauty and smart 😘

[@jarmokajander7990]

KIITOS PALJON!!

[@dmaster20ify]

Oh man. Judith Polgar only woman to play in the elite!

[@aandjwynn]

Judit is Boss!

[@uzard3860]

Waw

[@Ronbo710]

This was almost as funny as seeing Short in the World Championship %)

[@rafaelcunha1850]

9:42 wtf was that, king cant go to f8 he just checked and moved the pawn back wtf

[@ardweaden]

Rafael Cunha He's just showing a different variation, so he moved the pieces back to the starting positions of the variation.

[@AlonsoRules]

French bishop again is locked out

[@100neshama]

Judit is one of the greatest contributions that the Jewish people have made to humanity!

[@queenu606]

He got humiliated lmao

[@yashpermalla3494]

i love how neither queen has moved for the first 8 minutes at least

[@enprise7335]

He didn't even shake her hand pretty bad!

[@PartialObserver]

Actually he did... They showed it up close right before the stood up....

[@omarshehta8789]

one look form judit to me and i will resign

[@shinywarm6906]

This clip should be replayed every time Short comes out with his "Men are better at chess than women" schtick.

[@ardweaden]

He didn't claim every man is better in chess than every woman, rather that women on average have a different skill set than men, and that men tend to be better at chess, and women tend to be better at certain other things.

[@shinywarm6906]

@@ardweaden yes, i know.

[@abdelkarimchakhar365]

Well if you know it, why did you put that stupid comment?

[@shinywarm6906]

@@abdelkarimchakhar365 have another read. See the bit where Ardweaden says, "[Short] didn't claim every man is better than every woman"? I didn't say he did, either. Instead, I referred to Short's, "Men are better at chess than women schtick". Schtick = "a gimmick, comic routine, style of performance, etc. associated with a particular person." Short has been "associated with a comic performance" of sexist stereotypes regarding chess performance (and driving, amongst other things)

[@ardweaden]

This clip does not prove or disprove, or expose irony, of anything Short claimed.

[@KL-eo4vc]

Nigel short não passa de um arrogante.

[@Philly_Jump_Over_The_Fence]

Good chess player. But he is an obnoxious, arrogant sh1t.

[@IGUIDERAbderrahman]

She puts him in the mixer hhh

[@paulmorphy6187]

Obviously deep prep from Judit...

[@mikebaker63]

3.00 why Qf2 why not simply pxp and 0-0? Short's a hack

[@n64danny21]

After all that the dork resigned?! What a total let down, a game of chess without checkmate is always a disappointment 😔

[@ardweaden]

You must be getting disappointed by top level chess all the time then.

[@n64danny21]

@@ardweaden the more I watch it yes lol Just a bunch of quitters.

[@n64danny21]

@@ardweaden so grand masters never get taken by surprise? Even if they can see they will be in checkmate soon, how can they know with 100% accuracy the opponent sees it as well? How many games could have turned around in the loosers favor had they stuck with it i wonder.

[@ardweaden]

@@n64danny21 In most cases, the win is rather trivial and it's pointless to continue. Of course there are always cases where either player overlooked something trivial - you can't really speak about 100% accuracy for anything - but those are exceedingly rare.

[@sc7086]

Short castled short and resigned shortly :D

[@azoriusherald]

Commentary was kind of melodramatic, wasn't it? Bh4 check "and Polgar is in DEEP trouble." "The situation is desparate." If he honestly thinks Polgar didn't see the continuation with walking her king to the queenside I think he's giving her way too little credit.

[@azoriusherald]

I would almost guarantee this is prepared by Polgar.

[@vuk911]

Her position was bad after Bh4, and it was simply awful after Nh4, Qh4. If that was a preparation, it was probably the worst preparation in history of chess.

[@jasongoodacre]

Short simply played a bad move capturing the rook, and didn't see the continuation where white gains a tempo by threatening check/queen capture and gains another tempo by attacking with rook. The lesson here is you shouldn't bring your queen so deep into enemy territory UNLESS u are 100% sure of continuation because queen is vulnerable to attack by lesser pieces. Having 2 undeveloped pieces was suicide at this level.

[@reinhardtscheepers6317]

Her position was very desperate and was indeed in deep trouble as showed by the commentator’s analysis. Bd7 and Rc8 were crushing. Nigel Short just blundered his winning position away, as I’m sure we all have done at a time in our chess careers. I absolutely adore Judit’s playing style, but I don’t believe her early play in this game was prepared.

[@user-zk5uo5io2m]

@@azoriusherald Lol what she's completely lost in that position

[@Alan2ring]

Really interesting game. But why is e7 pawn disappearing and going back at min 9:42? Black king couldn't have moved to f8. Only possible black move was pawn to e6, then white pawn takes, black rook takes e6 pawn, d5 bishop takes rook. It was actually mate in 4 moves, not 8. Regardless, good commentating. Shows you how back in the day commentators would actually use their brains and not Stockfish to predict moves.

[@ardweaden]

He is saying that white *threatens* to play e7, but it's not white's turn. So if black skipped a move, this is what white would play. He then proceeds to show what would happen if black played Kf8 as a defence to that threat.

[@Tom-dt4ic]

This is easily the most humorous chess game in history.

[@jeremybeadleslefthand480]

You haven't seen GothamChess and his games where he analyses 300 ELO players then 😂

[@ALEN1ful]

Women can have the advantage because they are expected to lose so there is no pressure. No pressure can lead to a build up of confidence and demoralisation of the opposition in any sport or game. I know i played a bit of tennis and i can say the mental side is almost everything.

[@freudianslippers6567]

Being told you'll never measure up and underestimated your entire life, simply because of your biology, might be a little bit of pressure.

[@tracetrace2147]

@@freudianslippers6567 True..

[@chessbrilliance8783]

g4??? What an ugly move! I can't believe Judith played that move!

[@marcusw3996]

Judit cheated, she used beads.

[@g.c.9399]

these chess players are so arrogant

[@99ize18]

Some are and some are not, just like the rest of the human race. Don't generalise.

[@michaelmcgee335]

What a dick of a thing to say.

[@chuckkoehler9526]

I wonder how distracting it is for males to play attractive females vs. females playing attractive males. Like Miss Finland playing poker against a bunch of dudes. She is stunning.

[@paulepstein9739]

I think Jennifer Shahade made an excellent point about this. A straight man is likely to want to impress an attractive woman, so may be motivated to try even harder. Anyway, Short didn't play particularly badly. Capturing the rook is a natural idea, but that capture leads only to equality and gives the attacking chances to White.

[@tosgem]

would a fan give a male player a bunch of flowers? massive sexism in chess, this is why it's a man's sport

[@TheDcfan01]

I can't tell if the comment is for real or just trolling

[@tosgem]

+TheDcfan01 trolling. thanks.

[@inyourgenes]

Because men are more clever?

[@JizzyMcFrizzyLOL]

Lol, you sound incredibly stupid. Where is the hard-core scientific evidence supporting your statement? Oh wait - it doesn't exist because it's not a fact. It's just the opinion of a sexist idiot.

[@ChrisP872]

Nice troll. I thought you were serious too.

[@raginbakin1430]

Short got whooped this match! No wonder he became misogynistic 😂

[@garymorgan1724]

One victory by a woman over a mediocre former top ten male player does not mean that women chess players are the equal of their male counterparts - which is all that Short went as far as to say anyway. So he doesn't warrant condemnation for anything he has said and women have an awfully long way to go until they prove anything other than Short's own mediocrity as a player.

[@GoldenB101]

how many men play chess compared to women, how many women are encouraged to play chess etc.

[@2CSST2]

People have a strong tendency to do and like what they are good at, and people who are encouraged into something they don't enjoy will very likely not make a good career out of it. The reason why there are fewer women playing chess is because they are not as good at it, not the other way around.

[@warrendsmith6832]

Short at his peak was ranked #3 in world, hardly "mediocre." Polgar's peak was #8. But I would agree that Short was a comparatively weak player historically AMONG WORLD CHAMP CANDIDATES, which is a lot different from "a weak player." Short in his video about how women allegedly are worse at chess mentioned as one possible reason that women may be "less aggressive" but Judit Polgar is one of the most aggressive players ever, she does not have that problem :) In this particular game it would almost look like Judit planned the whole game to cause that turnaround.. and maybe she indeed did have the ultimate formation in mind... except if Short had responded right, she never would have gotten there, she would have been dead. So she was lucky this game. I think if the colors had been reversed, Polgar never would have let Short survive white's bad opening, she definitely would have gone for the throat rather than merely saying "I'll win your rook." You never want to expose your throat to Judit Polgar, she's a total killer in those situations.

[@freudianslippers6567]

The male fragility here is equal parts hilarious and troubling.

[@704studio]

Mr Morgan, Short played Kasparov for the world title, it is true the match was a blowout, but considering only a handful of players in the history of humanity played in a world championship chess match, to call Short mediocre is a bit misleading.

[@MrSupernova111]

2:40 "And now Polgar is in deep trouble." 6:08 "Polgar might actually be winning." First the commentator disregards Polgar's ability to counter attack then he changes his mind and states she might actually be winning. What an idiot.

[@paulepstein9739]

Ummm... No. The engines show that Polgar was in deep trouble when the commentator said she was in deep trouble, and she was winning when the commentator said she was winning. No change of mind, just a change in the game.

[@abdelkarimchakhar1799]

You are the idiot, the commentator was correct, her position was loosing till Short did a couple of mistakes/blunders.

[@paulharrison7219]

short vastly over rated

[@clivewismayer2404]

Short is & was a crap player

[@ardweaden]

Yes, no.3 in the world.... Definitely a crap player.