Gilles Mirallès was born in Grasse on 8 February 1966. In 1982 he became French Junior Champion and in 1986 and 1989, Mirallès won the French National Championship. In 1990 he came third, half a point ahead of Boris Spassky. Between 1986 and 1990, Gilles Mirallès represented France three times in Chess Olympiads.
As a junior, Mirallès liked to open his games with 1.b4.
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1.b4 e5 1...Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 2.Bb2 Qe7!? 2...Bxb4 3.a3N 3.c4 3...f5!? 4.c4 Nf6 5.g3 g6 6.Bg2 Bg7 7.Nc3 a5 8.b5 d6 9.Nf3 0-0 10.0-0 Nbd7 11.Qc2 Ra7!? 11...Rb8 12.a4 b6?! 13.Nd5! Nxd5 14.cxd5 Nf6 15.d3 Bb7 16.e4 Nh5? 16...Nd7 17.Ba3 Nc5 18.Nd2 17.Rac1 Rf7 18.Rce1 fxe4 19.dxe4 Bh6 20.Nd2 Bc8 21.Nc4 Bg4 22.f3 Bd7 23.Qc3 Ng7? 23...Bg7 24.Qd2 24.f4 exf4 25.e5 fxg3 26.Rxf7 Qxf7 27.hxg3 Bf5 28.exd6 cxd6 29.Nxd6 Qc7 30.Re8+ 1–0
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| Miralles,G | 2290 | Prie,E | 2360 | 1–0 | 1983 | A00 | St Maxime-03 | 9 |
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In the 1980s and 1990s Mirallès played in many tournaments, and his best results include winning the Cannes International Tournament 1986, ahead of Andras Adorjan and Viktor Kortschnoi, and winning in Marseille 1990, ahead of Chernin and Bareev. In 1987, he finished shared second behind Josef Klinger in an international tournament in Zug.
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Nbd2 d5 5.a3 Be7 6.Qc2 b6 7.e4 0-0 8.Bd3 g6 9.0-0 Bb7 10.Rd1 a5 11.cxd5 exd5 12.e5 Nh5 13.Nf1 c5 14.dxc5 bxc5 15.Bh6 Ng7 16.Bc4 d4 17.N1d2 Nd7 18.Ne4 Qb8 19.e6 Nxe6 20.Bxf8 Ndxf8 21.Re1 Qc7 22.Rad1 Rd8 23.Qc1 Bd5 24.Bxd5 Rxd5 25.Qc4 Rd8 26.b4 axb4 27.axb4 Nd7 28.Neg5 Nxg5 29.Rxe7 Nxf3+ 30.gxf3 Qf4 31.Qd5 Nf8 32.Qxd8 Qxf3 33.Ra1 Qg4+ 34.Kf1 Qh3+ 35.Ke2 Qg4+ 36.Kd2 Qf3 37.Ra8 Qc3+ 38.Ke2 Qc2+ 39.Kf1 1–0
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| Miralles,G | 2400 | Spassky,B | 2580 | 1–0 | 1989 | E11 | Cannes schev | |
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1.Nf3 g6 2.g3 Bg7 3.Bg2 e5 4.0-0 Nc6 5.c4 d6 6.Nc3 f5 7.d3 Nf6 8.Nd5 Ne7 9.e4 0-0 10.Re1 c5 11.Nxe7+ Qxe7 12.exf5 gxf5 13.d4 e4 14.dxc5 dxc5 15.Bf4 Rd8 16.Qc1 Be6 17.Ng5 Bd7 18.f3 Bc6 19.fxe4 fxe4 20.Qc2 Rd4 21.Nf3 b6 22.Nxd4 cxd4 23.c5 bxc5 24.Rac1 Bf8 25.Bg5 Re8 26.Rf1 Bg7 27.Qxc5 Qxc5 28.Rxc5 Re6 29.Bh3 Rd6 30.Bf4 Bd7 31.Bxd6 Bxh3 32.Be5 d3 33.Rxf6 d2 34.Rd5 Bxf6 35.Bxf6 e3 36.Bc3 1–0
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| Miralles,G | 2400 | Tal,M | 2610 | 1–0 | 1989 | A26 | Cannes schev | |
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From 1992 to 1996 Mirallès was Technical Director of the French Chess Federation as a trainer. He also worked for the federation magazine "Echecs et Mat". Mirallès then moved to Geneva, where he became president of the Geneva Chess Federation and, from 1998, director of the Geneva Chess School. Mirallès organised tournaments and was involved in the "Chess in Schools" initiative.
In 1985 Mirallès became an International Master, in 1997 he became a Grandmaster.
In France, Mirallès played for Monaco and other clubs. In Switzerland Mirallès played for Geneva for many years and last season, in 2021, he had excellent result and scored 5.5 out of 7.
Gilles Mirallès died on 28 January in Ferney-Voltaire. He was 55 years old.
Links
Obituary at Europe-Echecs
