Simplify the following text for a Grade 10 native English-speaking person.
Original: Never able to qualify out of the Interzonal stages into the Candidates ' series , Miles eventually lost the race to become the first British Candidate , when Nigel Short did so in 1985 .
Simplified: But he was never able to qualify for the Candidates ' series for the world title , and was overtaken by fellow Englishman Nigel Short in 1985 .