Kammala wannan magana: Daga kusan 2002, McShane ya fuskanci adawa mai tsanani, ciki har da 'yan wasa daga cikin' yan wasa goma na duniya. Ya buga wa Ingila wasa a gasar zakarun Turai.
Chess Olympiad a Bled, yana da maki 61⁄2/11 maki, kuma ya lashe lambar azurfa a Gasar Zakarun Duniya a Goa. A cikin 2003 ya gama na biyar a gasar Hrokurinn a Reykjavík, ya gama gaban dan wasan Ingila Michael Adams kuma ya zana wasanni a kan Viktor Korchnoi da Alexei Shirov. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, ya doke Shirov a gasar Reykjavík mai haske. A gasar Sigeman & Co ta 2003 a Malmö, ya gama na uku da ci 51⁄2/9, inda ya daidaita wasan sa da wanda ya lashe gasar, Vasily Ivanchuk. Hakanan a cikin 2003, McShane ya gama 27th daga cikin 207 tare da 8/13 a Gasar Zakarun Turai ta mutum a Silivri a Turkiyya, maki 11⁄2 a bayan mai nasara, Zurab Azmaiparashvili. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka ya daidaita na farko tare da Alexei Dreev da Krishnan Sasikiran a gasar cin kofin Tekun Arewa da aka buga a Esbjerg a Denmark tare da 61⁄2/9, ya gama a matsayi na biyu a gasar Politiken a Copenhagen tare da 81⁄2/11 kuma ya lashe Malmö Masters tare da 71⁄2/9, maki daya da rabi a gaban abokin hamayyarsa mafi kusa. A cikin 2009/10 ya daidaita na farko zuwa na biyar tare da Eduardas Rozentalis, Pavel Ponkratov, Radosław Wojtaszek da Igor Lysyj a gasar cin kofin Rilton ta 39 a Stockholm. A cikin 2010 ya lashe gasar Remco Heite ta uku a Wolvega.