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Gilles Mirallès

French chess grandmaster (1966–2022) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gilles Mirallès
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Gilles Mirallès (8 February 1966 – 28 January 2022) was a French chess grandmaster.[1][2]

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Mirallès became a Grandmaster in 1997 after winning the French Junior Chess Championship in 1982 and the French Chess Championship in 1986 and 1989. He came in third place in 1990. Also a chess coach, he was directeur technique national [fr] of the French Chess Federation from 1992 to 1996. He also collaborated with the magazine Échec et Mat [fr].

He moved to Geneva and became President of the Fédération genevoise d'échecs and director of the École d'échecs de Genève. On 1 January 2011, he was ranked 43rd in France with an Elo rating of 2462.

Mirallès died in Ferney-Voltaire on 28 January 2022, at the age of 55.[3][4]

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