What is Tony Miles?
{{Infobox chess player |playername = Tony Miles |image = Anthony Miles 1976.jpg |caption = Tony Miles in 1976 |country = {{ENG}} |datebirth = {{Birth date|1955|4|23|df=y}} |placebirth = [[Edgbaston]], [[Birmingham]], England |datedeath = {{death date and age|2001|11|12|1955|4|23|df=y}} |placedeath = [[Harborne]], Birmingham, England |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] |worldchampion = |womensworldchampion = |rating = |peakrating = 2635 (01.01.1996) }} [[File:England 1986 Dubai.jpg|thumb|right|280px|The England team at the [[Dubai]] [[Chess Olympiad]], 1986. From the front: Speelman, Short, Nunn and Miles.]] '''Tony Miles''' (Anthony John Miles, 23 April 1955 – 12 November 2001) was an [[English people|English]] [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]]. == World Junior Champion == In 1973 Miles won the silver medal at the World Junior Chess Championship at [[Teesside]], his first important event against international competition. He won the title next year in [[Manila]]. Miles entered the [[University of Sheffield]] to study [[mathematics]], but dropped out to concentrate on chess. ==Career highlights== In 1976, Miles became the first ever [[FIDE]] Grandmaster born in the United Kingdom, narrowly beating [[Raymond Keene]] to the title. Other [[English people|English]] players had been acknowledged as true Grandmasters in the past. [[Howard Staunton]], the 19th century World Champion, was obviously a grandmaster. [[Joseph Blackburne]] was also regularly described as a grandmaster. Naturalised German-born [[Jacques Mieses]] was awarded the GM title in 1950; and [[Jonathan Penrose]] was awarded the title retrospectively. For his achievement, Miles won a £5,000 prize. Miles had a string of good results in the late 1970s and 1980s, and his success was a factor in the growth of strong British players shortly after Miles became a GM. Miles won games against a number of former [[List of World Chess Champions|World Chess Champion]]s, including [[Vasily Smyslov]], [[Mikhail Tal]], and [[Boris Spassky