England's First GM. England's first Grandmaster (1976) and famously the man who beat World Champion Karpov with 1.e4 a6 in 1980.
Anthony Miles became England's first Grandmaster in 1976 and the spearhead of the English chess explosion of the 1970s and 80s. He is best remembered for one of the most audacious games in chess history, in the 1980 European Team Championship at Skara, with the black pieces against reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov, Miles replied to 1.e4 with 1...a6, the St. George Defence, an opening no serious player had touched in a hundred years. He won the game in 46 moves. Miles fought a lifelong battle with bipolar disorder and his later years were difficult, but at his best he was a fiercely original attacker who refused to be intimidated by reputation or theory. He died in 2001 at just 46.
Notable: England's first GM (1976). Defeated World Champion Karpov with 1...a6 in 1980. Won the British Championship and was twice in the world top ten.
| Era | Modern |
| Years | 1955–2001 |
| Peak rating | 2610 |
| Born | Edgbaston, England, 1955 |
| Title | England's first over-the-board Grandmaster (1976) |
| Style | Unorthodox openings, fighting chess, tactical sharpness, refusal to follow theory |
Miles, reconstructed from the player's own games and measured against a modern engine, as a UCI engine for your machine: it runs locally and offline, loads into CZUBATRONIC 2400 as an external engine, and into any compatible UCI chess interface. Strong chess from the engine; the choices, recognisably Miles's.
| File | ChessGate_Miles.exe · 46 MB |
| Runs in | CZUBATRONIC 2400 (as an external engine) and any UCI chess interface |
| Requirements | Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit; any UCI chess interface; CZUBATRONIC 2400 lists it as an external engine |
| Works offline | Yes. No account, no server. |
| Packs | — |
| Collection | Complete Personality Collection |
| In the browser | A lighter version of Miles plays on ChessGate. |
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