Gilles Mirallès

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

Gilles Mirallès

Mirallès in 2014
Personal information
Born	(1966-02-08)8 February 1966 Grasse, France
Died	28 January 2022(2022-01-28) (aged 55) Ferney-Voltaire, France
Chess career
Country	France
Title	Grandmaster (1997)
Peak rating	2520 (January 1998)

Biography

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]