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Chess

Miles gloriosus

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

England’s leading female player, Jovanka Houska, recently called for a memorial to the late Tony Miles. The timing is fitting. Miles won the British championship in 1982 and the centenary British Championship concludes this weekend in Torquay, the scene of Miles’s victory.
 
The year after he won the championship, Miles also triumphed in the BBC Mastergame series, defeating the then world champion Karpov in the final.

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