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Contents
5
6
7
9
1:
The Chess Career of Tony Miles
II
2:
"I
played every night for
a year unlil l gal bored"
23
3:
"A cable"
51
4:
"I
pushed
Karpov
all the way
for
first place at Til
b
ug
"
78
5:
"I beat Spassky twice heavily-lovely games, very pretty"
93
6:
"I feel I'm overdue to win some toumaments"
109
7:
"1
heard that Karpov felt insulted by my choice of opening"
128
(including Interview at Lone Pine
1980 -
133)
8:
"When I play close to home it's the complex-l play badly"
159
9:
"The Impossible Challenge, Tilburg Inlerpolis
1985
"
175
10:
"I
get bored with playing the same thing all the time"
198
11:
"I am nostalgic for the days before computers were invented"
218
12:
Problems
240
13:
Solutions to Problems
245
14:
Aticles
252
IS:
Memories ora generous soul, a great bloke'
and a unique personality
264
16:
Tony Milesone of my best and most loyal riends
267
17:
"Can you show me your game against Karpov
where you playd
1 ... 36,
please Mr Miles?"
271
18:
"I have no style-I just make moves"
278
Tony Miles's tounament, match
and England national team record
Index of Opponents
284
288
Introduction
Inde" of Openings
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Leonard Barden
Introduction
Acknowledgements
n
November
200
I
>
the
chessworld was shocked by
the news that Tony Miles,
Engl:nd's first-and most
inluential-grandmaster, had
died suddenly at his home in
Birmingham at only
46
years of age.
By way of tribute we have now
compiled a selection of Tony's most
interesting g3mes with his own
commentaries. Also included are
some of his most memorable articles
such as 'Has Karpov losl his
marbles?' from
Kingpin,
togethcr
with a number of chess brain·teasers
he set .is readers and a rare
interview he gave at Lone Pine
1980.
The majority of the annotations
are taken from Tony Miles's chess
column in the
New Statesmall
which
he conducted from
1976
to
1981-
a period in which he developed inlo
a world class player-and rom his
contributions to
Chess
magazine,
first as a budding junior and later as
a hardened campaigner on the
gruelling chess circuit.
In addition there are a fair number
of good games which he never fully
annotated in words but only with
analytical symbols. Games from
Tilburg
1984,
probably his finest
tounament victory, and thrilling
encounters such as Miles
Belyavsky, Tilburg
1986,
one of his
most famous wins, have been taken
from his
InJormator
and
Chess
Player
notes (where we have
replaced the symbols with words).
We were, however, disappointed not
to ind comments on more of his
instructive games with the English
Defence, perhaps his favourite
opening. Surely he annotated more
than those we have managed to
unearth here?
Chapter headings come in Ihe
fonn of Miles quotes which
highlight key aspects of his
30
year
chess career or specific character
traits. Meanwhile the tounament
record will provide a basis for
funher research, since he
undoubtedly played more events
than those listed here. We have also
endeavoured to give
a
glimpse of
Miles the man, through our own
personal recollections, particularly
relating to his school years and his
conibulions to junior chess in the
Midlands.
Throughout the book, unless
otherwise stated, any commentaries
or quotes are by Tony himsel.
Finally, in case you didn't realise,
"It's Only Me" is an anagram of
Tony Miles, and was
one of his
handles on Ihe Intenet Chess Club.
We feel fortunate to have known
Tony and it has been a pleasure to
compile this book in his memory.
We do hope it does him justice and
that readers will enjoy his colourful
writing and chess annotations.
ur
sincere thanks to
Tony Miles's family.
paticularly to his
cousin Pam and his
late Aunt Dev, who
unfortunately passed
away shortly ater Tony. They
generously gave us their time and
acccss
10
his archives.
Audio Chess
'Tony Miles Grandmaster'-Tony
talking to Mike 8asman about
Duhna
1976.
Games
15
to
18.
'Chess Cafe
website'
Miles's column started in
1999.
Games
115, 117, 118.
Article: 'The Holey Wohly?'
Kinpin
magazine
Article; 'Has Karpov Lost His
Marbles?'
Book reviews:
Unorthodox Chess
Ope/lings, Secrets oj Millor-Piece
Endings, Samllrai Chess: Mastering
the Martial Art oJthe Mind
lnformator
Games
21, 36, 37, 45, 69
to
72,
75, 79
to
82, 89. 94, 95, 97, 104,
106.116.
Inside Chess
Games
90 10 93.
'The Chess Player'
Series (Tony
Gillam)
Games
13, 14, (15
to
18
exclams).
Part of the introduction to Miles·
Larsen, London
1980.
is taken from
Londa"
1980
by Tony Miles.
Annotations
reproduced from
publications:
The following publications have
given their pennission to reproduce
Tony Miles's work;
New Statesman
magazine
Milcs's chess column ran fom
mid
1976 to
early
1981.
Games
9, 22
to
25, 27
to
30. 32
to
35,38
to
41, 43, 44, 46, 51
to
68.
Articles; 'Noise at Hastings',
'Russian Prodigy', 'Kasparov at the
Olympiad', 'Making sense of chess
books'
Problem Numbers:
2 10 18.
New In Chess
magazine
'The Impossible Challenge'
Tilburg Interpol is
1985
tounament
report.
Games
83
to
88,114.
Chess
magazine
Early games up to around the time
of Dubna
1976,
and again from
around
1994
onwards:
Games
3
to
8, 10
tol2,
19,7610
78, 96,98
to
103. 105, 107
to
113.
Article: 'Blindfold Simultaneous
Exhibition
1984',
'Tony Miles
says
..
.
•
have
th'
been
following
Chess £rpress
(deunct)
Games
73. 74.
llitematiollal Chess
(defunct)
Games
42. 47
to
50.
IBM Schaktoernooi
Games
20. 31.
O
I
8
Acknowledgements
Main sources for quotes
Chess Cafe website,
Kinpin
magazine, The Chess Player Series,
Chess Life
(USA),
Inside Chess
(USA), Intenet Chess Club, Chess
Assistant: Miles's database (Monica
Vann),
The English Chess Explosion
from Miles
10
Storf
Keene
&
Chandler,
British Chess
Bonerill,
Levy, Rice, Richardson,
Best Games
of the Young Grandmasters
Kopec
&
Pritchett,
European Junior
Cltampionship Grollingen
1972
tounament book,
Tony Mils
Grandmaster
audio cassette (Audio
Chess UK),
1976
taped
conves
ation with Stephen Gordon
(National Open
1976),
IBM Schaak
toenooi
1976
tounament book,
IBM ScJwktoenooi
1977
toun
ament book,
London
1980
Tony
Miles,
LondOIl
1980
Hartston
&
Reuben,
Tilburg Imerpolis
1984
tounament book,
The Mosler Game
James
&
Barden,
The Master Game
(book
2) James
&
Hartston,
The
Sicilian Dragon
Miles
&
Moskow,
The English Defence
King,
MeO
Tenth edition
Kom,
Moden
Opening Traps
Chemev,
A
Complete Defelice for Black
Keene
&
Jacobs,
Best Chess Games
1970-1980
Speelman,
Endgame
Strategy
Shereshevsky,
Birmingham
Evening Mail/Post
and national
newspaper archives (Binningham
Central Library).
Miles's quotes are taken from the
New in Chess
interview with Miles
in 1984, S.W.Gordon interviews
with Miles rom 1976 and 1980,
Chess, British Chess Magazine, New
Statesman, Chess Life, Best Games
of the Young Grandmasters
by
Kopec
&
Pritchett,
London
1980
by
Miles, National newspapers,
Birmingham Evening Mail,
and
BBC TV programs.
Foreword
by
Leonard Barden
ony Miles was the chess
player who inspired
English talent to defeat
Soviet grandmasters and
even challenge them for
world supremacy.
He
was a competitive professional,
n
source of fresh and original opening
ideas, a patient strategist ready to
win in 100 moves, and a first prize
winner at the highest level. Yet
Miles never forgot his roolS,
competing on the English weekend
circuit in his prime and later leading
Slough to national team titles.
I recall an early image of Tony
and his fierce will to succeed, when
he played Kuzmin in the England
v
USSR match in the European
championship at Bath 1973.
Kuzmin was a bruiser, hard-faced
and muscular, while Tony already
had his trademark manneisms as he
poured his glass of milk and placd
his wristwatch over his score sheet
to hide his notation, which he
recorded
n
Cyrillic to Kuzmin's
evident bewilderment. They
whipped out their moves staccato,
and as time pressure loomed at the
end of the session play became
almost physical as they leaned
towards each other like a couple of
heavyweights.
Tony's schoolboy talent blossom
ed around 1970 at just the right time
for himself and for British chess.
Older masters were retired or past
their best, while a younger group
\cd by Keene and Hartston seemed
unlikely to scale the heights.
Abroad, Fischer and Larsen were
defeating Russians in
a style which
excited the chess publ ic. The search
was on for an Englishman who
could also take on the Soviets.
Jim Slater, then the City's most
dynamic young financier, was
already backing a talent programme
and an English bid for the junior
World Championship. Ater his
money saved the FisctJer v Spassky
match in Reykjavik rom collapse,
he ofered a
£5,000 prize for
the
irst English grandmaster. Slater
considered going urther with
£10,000 for an Englishman reaching
the world top 30, but decided to
wait. Just as well, since his business
collapsed in the next two years and
the higher prize could not have been
honoured.
The race with Keene for
the
Slater
award triggered a fresh advance in
Tony's strength. In
1976
he tied for
irst with Korchnoi at Amsterdam,
in 1977 he was second to
aov
at
Tilburg and in the BBC Master
Game, and in 1978 he brilliantly
beat Spassky at Montilla. So Tony
concluded that "the only thing let is
to have a go at Karpov".
I'm not sure if it was a wise move
to make this public. As post
glasnost documents revealed, the
Soviets had a dedicated programme
to try to stop Fischer, and I have the
impression that ater
1978
USSR
The fo llowing people have
provided help and advice
Jimmy Adams, Michael Basman,
James Coleman, Chris Duncan,
Malcolm Pein
(Chess
&
Bridge
Lr),
Leonard Barden, Benard
Cafferty, Roger De Coverly, John
Donaldson, Tony Gillam, Bill
Gordon, Stephen Gordon, BiB
Hartston, Richard James, Nigel
Johnson, Andrew Morley, Richard
Parsons, Jodie Soame
(New
Slatesman),
Monica Vann, Roelof
Westra.
References
New Statesman
magazine,
Chess
magazine,
British Chess Magazine,
New II Chess
magazine and
Yearbooks,
In formalor
volumes,
T
10 Foreword
grandmnsters plnyed specially hard
against Miles. This clenrly happened
at the 1979 Riga Interzonal where
Tony (whose preparation had
typically been a few UK week
enders) stated among the leaders
but then fell back when he met the
Russians. His famous win over
Karpov at Skan 1980 was an
exception to the World Champion's
convincing victories in many
of
their other games 3t this time.
Karpov's post-game fury when he
branded
I 4
a6 as
lese mujesle
is
consistent with shame 3t letting the
side down by failing to subdue the
Westen upstat.
Aler Riga, Mile� llcilly
abandoned his pretentions to the
world crown 3nd played to his
strengths as a top GM. He again
beat Karpov in the BBC Master
Game
1983,
while his irst place at
Tilburg
1984
was the inest British
tounament result by anyone up to
that time. He totalled
8/ 11,
was
Ph
points clear of the ield, and
defeated three world candidates. At
Tilburg
1985
he injured his back,
playd stomach down on a massage
table, and rducd his opponents to
a petition against the table.
Miles's vintage period ended with
his ill-health and his '22-eyed
monster' defeat by Kasparov in
1986. A decade later, he relaunched
his career by combining tounament
play with coaching, writing, and
leading the Slough team. He won
the Capablanca Memorial in Cuba
three times, and gained many new
admirers with his witty Chess Caf
e
intenet column and his contrib
utions to Kinpin magazine. He
poked fun at the pretentious. and
put
foward constructive ideas 10
improve the world chess scene.
The
humour and warmth of Miles the
man comes through in his writing.
Tony's legacy to British chess can
be seen in the successes of our
players in the two decades ater he
won a world title and beat the
feignin� World Champion. He
broke the baTier of over-respect for
Russians, and set a high achieve
ment target for his friends and
contemporaries. Tony showed that
in chess you have to demand the
best from yourself, and that became
the English chess ethos. Michael
Adams, Nigel Short, Jon Speelm3n,
John Nunn and Matthew Sadler are
only the cream of many who
over-fulfilled what could have been
reasonable expectations from them
when they were juniors. In his inal
years Tony was passionately
involved in junior coaching, so I
hope this book will help inspire
uture generations of English talent
to aim for the heights.
1:
The Chess Career
of Tony Miles
ony
Miles was bon on
St.George's Day-April
23d 1955,
in Edgbaston,
Binningham-the son of
Jennie and Jack Miles.
'/ learned 10 play from my father
at age five.
/
played every I/ighl for
a year IIl1til
/
got bored.
/
Ihen
'retired' for three years. My life in
chess really began
iS a
ype
of
accident, since
/
started playing a/
school when
/
was nil/e. There was
a chess craze it Ihe time and / found
that / was good at the game. /
always beat everyone, including
teachers.'
From the age of
II
he played
competitive chess several times a
week. his was the beginning of a
patten of intense chess activity that
was to last his whole career. The
young Miles loved all kinds of
spons-rugby, cricket, swimming,
athletics-but in the field of chess
came the realization
'/
which was to become even more
pronouncd later. He seemed to
prefer 10 go his own way, rather
than hed the opinions of others.
Miles attended King Edwards
School in Edgbaston which set
demanding academic standards. His
school reports paint a clear picture
of the pupil doing just enough work
to get by, while concentrating
on the
more important matter of perfecting
his
skills at the game he played so
well! One tat comment, from
General Studies, gives the flavour of
the reports:
'Perhaps olle day he will realise
Ihere are more Ihings in heaven and
earth than chess. At the momelll he
cannot conceive of such a
possibiliy. Thus his only creditable
activiy iI/ this subject
s
been thai
he has tuned up. Othen'ise he has
said nothing, done nothing, and
looked prety bored. He needs to
learn the inestimable value of
intellectual humiliy.'
In 1967, he started playing in the
Binningh3m Easter Conresses, un
by Ritson Morry, the Midland and
Hastings chess organizer. He won
the West Midlands Under-12 title
but, more remarkably, inished
unner-up in the Birmingham Open
Speed Championships. In his irst
national competition, aged 12, he
scored
50%
in the British Under-14
Championship, losing to title winner
John Nunn. In the Birmingham
Easter Congress 1968, he played no
hud
something special.'
At
II
he won the Birmingh3m
Primary Schools Championship, and
subsequently joined the Binning
ham Chess Club, where some of the
stronger pl3yers encouraged the
promising schoolboy-in p3rticular
Benard Caferty and Peter Gibbs,
even if today they both tend to play
down
their role, saying he received
no
formal coaching. But one thing is
cetain-already apparent at this
young age was Miles's independ
ence of thought and self-reliance,
T
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