User talk:Nigel Short

Wow
You are THE Nigel Short? This is something that my chess tutor would think cool. I .. I can't believe my eyes..... A chess GrandMaster on Wikipedia.

I'd like to ask you a question: When will your next trip to Canada be?

Take Care, Oh great chess player ,   April l809  20:52, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! Trafford09 (talk) 20:27, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello
Hello Nigel (assuming it's the real you, which I think is a safe assumption). It's indeed an honour to have you editing on Wikipedia - I see you've been doing so for some years, & we all hope you'll continue.

Now, I'm passionate about Go (game) rather than chess - many apologies.

However, I read a recent report that quoted you as saying that you enjoyed playing Shogi (Japanese chess), and that you also have a Go set, but hadn't played as you couldn't find anyone to play against (I gather you are now living in Greece, which is not yet a member of the European Go Federation).

May I perhaps point you therefore towards people in Greece - indeed in Athens - who are amateur Go players? The European Go Database lists all players active in Europe, and it lists 13 players in Greece (use the Country drop-down to select Greece).

3 of them are from Athens, it seems to show. There may of course be many more, but they haven't attended a recent Go Tournament (maybe those are few & far between in Greece!).

Greek Room on KGS
One way to contact them or others is to use their info. on the KGS Go Server (KGS) - an online go-server. One can use www.kgs.com as a guest, or indeed register an account (very simple). Once on KGS, if you go into Rooms, then select National, then select Greek Room, you'll see some of the keenest current players there.

Their info. currently reads:
 * ++++++++++Welcome to the Greek Room++++++++++++

Results after the first three games of the Greece - Iceland series:

Garpur (IS) vs Saeki (GR) B+ 32.5

Howabout (GR) vs Legendre (IS) W+R

Nooooooo (IS) vs bigbordel (GR) B+ R

• Γκο στα ελληνικά : http://playgo.to/interactive/Greek/, http://gobase.org/studying/rules/?id=0&ln=gr  και http://www.cyprus-go.org/docs/gorules.pdf

• Interested in Go in Chania? contact gkoykoy@gmail.com or user pendulum in KGS

• Interested in Go in Thesalonika or Athens ( goddel@gmail.com)

• Go in Athens/Γκο στην Αθήνα (kmichailidis@yahoo.com /Catlemur)

• Greek Go Association on Facebook: see here

Further help
If you had any queries related to Go, of any nature, please don't hesitate to ask. Either ask me - I'd be delighted - or contact the British Go Association (I'm a longstanding member there, but we'd also be very pleased to hear from you &/or help you in any way).

Anyway, enough of Go - I hope you retain time and enthusiasm for all you pursuits (incl. Wikipedia!).

Good luck to you & your family in all your activities.

Best wishes, Trafford09 (talk) 21:04, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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 * Hey - Short has continued to edit their own article. Thoughts? Couruu (talk) 19:46, 13 August 2023 (UTC)