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]