Any club player can see he should have won this game. I think it was the sheer pressure of the media interest in the match that made Nigel lose his nerve. If it wasn't a big TV event he would have not felt such the burden of being scrutinized by the public. History will view Nigel at least as putting up a good fight against Kasparov at times. He was not thrashed. He came second, as Paul merton said at the time.

I cant help but feel sorry for Nigel here , was awesome play from the British champ . Great game to watch.

Just imagine this sort of stuff was still on tv with people who would understand

When Chess players study complex variations, sometimes they miss the most obvious and most simple continuations.

when the rook comes to e1 and gary kasparov pins the knight with the Queen to G5, the cracking move was Rook to h1, that checks the king and leads to a force pawn queening. that is the move the Nigel missed due to time pressure. Rook to H1

I guess at 11:37 Short didn't see that if black played Qg6 his knight on e1 ( if he had played Ne1) would have prevented a threat of mate at c2.

Thanks for posting this up :) If love to see others from this match if you can find and post them.

Amazing

Even Kasparov's 39...Qd5?? is a huge blunder. If Short plays 40.Ne4, he wins.

Nigel finds out the hard way that achieving a winning position against Kasparov and winning the game are two very different things.

The commentators didn't do their best work here. Making it seem like Short had the game won. Even saying Kasparov would normally resign here.