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

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 ' of the French Chess Federation from 1992 to 1996. He also collaborated with the magazine '. He moved to

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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

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of 2462. Mirallès died in Ferney-Voltaire on 28 January 2022, at the age of 55.

References

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