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Games Collection of Tony Miles (1955-2001)
975 game entries from 1967 to 1979 • Download PGN Updated
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Tony Miles's Tournament Record (1967-1979)
n.b. this is a work in progress
1967
March 24-27 - Warwicks & Midlands U14, Birmingham: (1) B Wright 6/9; (2-3) G Haddow, Anthony J Miles 5/9...
March 24-27 - Warwicks & Midlands U12, Birmingham: (1) Anthony J Miles 7½/8; (2) G Haddow 6...
August 7-18 - British Under-14 Championship, Oxford: (1) John Nunn 9/11; (2) Laurence Marks 8½; (3-4) Donald Marr, John Orrell 7... (11-15) (included) Anthony J Miles 5½/11
1968
April 12-15 - Warwicks & Midlands U16, Birmingham: (1) Anthony J Miles 8/9; (2) W J Stirling 7½; (3) H W Brockbank 6½...
April 12-15 - Warwicks & Midlands U14, Birmingham: (1) Anthony J Miles 7/9; (2) M Ogg 6; (3-4) P S Griffin, M W Marlow 6...
June 1-4 - Staffordshire 'Candidates', Wolverhampton: (1) Anthony J Miles 4½/5; (2-5) D T Fairbank, C C W Shephard, M B Squires, P Staley 3½...
August 5-16 - British Under-14 Championship, Bristol: (1) Anthony J Miles 9½/11; (2) Laurence Marks 9; (3-4) John G Nicholson, John Nunn 8½, etc.
1969
April 4-7 - Midland Open, Birmingham: (1-4) C Rix, C G Burton, C C W Shephard, A Woodland 5/7; (5) C J Corbett 4½; (6-9) D J Harper, R J Farley, Anthony J Miles, R Burton 4...
May 24-27 - Staffordshire Open, Wolverhampton: (1-3) David Anderton, Peter Griffiths, Anthony J Miles 4/5
August 11-22 - British Under-18 Championship, Rhyl: (1) Clive Cubitt 9/11; (2-5) Cyril Foster, Roger Howley, Anthony J Miles, John Nunn 8
1970
March 27-30 - Midland Open, Birmingham: (1) Anthony J Miles 6/7; (2-5) G Homer, W Ritson Morry, J M Quinn, J A Sutton 5...
May 23-26 - Staffordshire Open, Wolverhampton: (1) P H Clarke 4½/5; (2) R A Beach 4; (3) P C Griffiths 3½; (4-6) C G Burton, R S McFarland, Anthony J Miles 3...
July 29 - August 1 - Glorney Cup, Glasgow (Under-18 Team Tournament): (1) England 24/30 (Anthony J Miles, boards 7 & 8, 4/4)
August 10-21 - British Under-21 Championship, Coventry: (1) Derek M Wise 9/11; (2-3) Ivor Friedlander, Stuart J Hutchings 8; (4) Roger Webb 7½; (5) Peter G Killick 7; (6-12) (includes) Anthony J Miles 6½/11
December 11-13 - Islington Open, London: (1) Jan Timman 5½/6... (14-37) (includes) Anthony J Miles 4/6; (at same congress) December 15-23 - Islington Junior A: (1-2) Robert Bellin, Sergio Mariotti 5½/9... (8-9) Roger Smith, Anthony J Miles 2½/9.
1971
April - European Under-20 International, Nice (FRA): (1-2) Anthony J Miles, W Hug (SUI) 7/9; (3-4) A Haik (FRA), J Barle (YUG) 6½
April 9-12 - Warwicks & Midlands U18: (1) Anthony J Miles 6/7; (2-3) M W Marlow, M J Pitt 5½...
May 29 - June 1 - Staffordshire Open, Wolverhampton: (1-2) David Anderton, Anthony J Miles 4/5
July 2-4 - Manchester Open: (1-4) B Cafferty, R Gardner, V W Knox, Anthony J Miles 5/6; (5-8) R Bailey, R J M Farley, E J Holt, J E Littlewood 4½...
August 5-7 - Glorney Cup, Cardiff (Under-18 Team Tournament): (1) England 17/18 (Anthony J Miles, board 2, 2½/3)
August 9-20 - British Under-21 Championship, Blackpool: (1) Anthony J Miles 9/11; (2-3) John Nunn, Jonathan Speelman 8...
December 10-12 - Islington Open, London: (1-7) Simon Webb, Andrew Whiteley, Robert Bellin, Peter Griffiths, John Carleton, Michael Lambshire, John Nunn 5/6... (77-96) (includes) Anthony J Miles 2½/6...
December 29 - January 7 (1972) - Hastings Challengers: (1) D Rajkovic 7½/10; (2-3) M J Corden, E Formanek 7; (4-5) P C Griffiths, R Bellin 6½; (6-12) (includes) Anthony J Miles 6...
1972
March 31 - April 9 - Birmingham International: (1) R Borngaesser (FRG) 9½/14; (2-3) M J Basman, J J Carleton 9; (4) Anthony J Miles 7½; (5) P H Clarke 6½; (6) M J Corden 5½; (7) P C Griffiths 5; (8) A Dunkelblum 4.
(finished April 24) Forrest Cup (Midlands, KO) - winner
May 27-29 - Staffordshire Open, Wolverhampton: (1) J J Carleton 5/6; (2-4) T D Harding, N J Holloway, J Horner 4½; (5-7) R S McFarland, Anthony J Miles, K B Richardson 4...
June 23-25 - Manchester Open: (1) Kevin J Wicker 6/6; (2-3) John E Littlewood, M R Mahdavi 5; (4-13) B Cafferty, R A Doney, T C Fox, J Horner, V W Knox, A T Ludgate, Anthony J Miles, N E Povah, J M Quinn, L de Veauce 4½...
July 28-30 - Hereford Open - Anthony J Miles 4½/5
August 14-25 - British Championship, Brighton: 16th=, 5½/11
(between August 26 & September 11) - Munich International Junior Team Tournament: (1) England 14 m/pts; (2) Hungary 10; (3-5) Sweden, West Germany, Yugoslavia 9; ((6) Scotland 8; (7-8) Italy, Belgium 7; (9-11) West Germany 2, Denmark, Netherlands 6; (12-14) Finland, France, Norway 5; (15) Switzerland 4; (16) Luxembourg 2. England team: (1) M F Stean 4½/7; (2) Anthony J Miles 6½/7; (3) J D M Nunn 5½/7; (4) S Saverymuttu 5/7. Non-playing captain: Peter R Markland (source of info: CHESS, November 1972, Vol.38/661-2, p42)
October 28-29 - England vs Netherlands, Vlissingen - Board 9, 2-0 vs C Baljon
December 18 - January 5 (1973) - European U21 Championship, Groningen: (1) Oleg Romanishin 7½/9; (2) Anthony J Miles 6½; (3-4) A Urzica, S Buchal 5½, etc. Crosstable.
1973
February 16-18 - 4th East Glamorgan Open, Caerphilly: (1) Michael J Basman 5/5; (2) Anthony J Miles 4½; (3-7) Michael E Binks, S J Hutchings, D Parr, C C W Shephard, D J Sully 4... etc (50 players). Miles drew in the last round with Binks while Basman beat Hutchings. (Report: CHESS, November 1973, p62)
March 10-16 - Las Vegas National Open: (1-3) Walter S Browne (championship trophy on tie-break), Laszlo Szabo, James E Tarjan 7/8; (4-10) Lubosh Kavalek, Arthur Bisguier, William Martz, Walter Shipman, John Grefe, Ken Smith, James McCormick 6½; (11-?) Anthony J Miles 6... etc (sources of info: Chess Life & Review, June 1973, p300; Tony Miles: It's Only Me by Geoff Lawton)
March 18-24 - Lone Pine Open (3rd Louis D Statham Masters): (1) Arthur Bisguier 6/7; (2-3) Walter S Browne, Laszlo Szabo 5½; (4-6) John Grefe, Anthony J Miles, Edward W Formanek 5... etc. Crosstable.
April 13-15 - Birmingham Weekend Open: (1) Anthony J Miles 4½/5; (2-3) M Bertok, L de Veauce 4; (4-5) R J Farley, C C W Shephard 3½... etc.
April 17-29 - Birmingham International: (1) Anthony J Miles 7½/11; (2-3) A Adorjan, A Bisguier 7; (4) B Gasic 6½... etc.
April? - Forrest Cup (Midland KO) - won
April - Birmingham Post Cup - lost to Bernard Cafferty
May 26-29 - Staffordshire Open, Wolverhampton: (1-2) Jeff Horner, John M Ripley 5/6; (3-5) Peter C Griffiths, Anthony J Miles, A Howard Williams 4½; (6) Robert S McFarland 4... etc. (BCM, July 1973, p278)
July 6-13 - European Team Championship, Bath: Anthony J Miles 1½/4 on boards 7/8.
July 16 - August 4 - World Junior Championship, Teeside: (1) A Belyavsky 8½/11; (2) Anthony J Miles 8... "all his luggage stolen at the start of the World Junior - but Miles still wins the silver medal." (Leonard Barden)
August 6-17 - British Championship, Eastbourne: (1-2) W R Hartston, M J Basman 8½/11; (3) A H Williams 7½; (4-6) A J Whiteley, Anthony J Miles, J Horner 7, etc.
August 20-31 "Flies to Malta and wins a weak tournament there with 11 out of 11" (Leonard Barden, CHESS, October 1973, Vol.39/683-4, p17)
September 7-9 London Chess Club Invitation (30 players, 5 rounds): (1) Bent Larsen (DEN) 4½/5 (£100); (2) John D M Nunn 4; (3-6) Anthony J Miles, A J Mestel, R D Keene, M J Basman 3½; 7-13 D J Strauss (USA), L Piasetski (CAN), P H Clarke, J E Littlewood, P R Markland, S Saverymuttu, S Webb 3; 14-19 G S Botterill, E Klein, Paul E Littlewood, D Goodman, J C Benjamin, J Horner 2½; 20-22 Jon S Speelman, P Waters, D Wright 2; 23-28 H Bohm (NED), T P D Chapman, J Kinlay, V W Knox, G E J Lambert, A H Perkins 1½; 29 D R Johnston 1; 30 N E Povah ½.
September 10-21 3rd Malta International, Valletta (12-player all-play-all) "Back to Malta for a stronger tournament - again wins first prize with 11 out of 11, ahead of GM O'Kelly, Dr. Lehmann and David Parr." (Leonard Barden, CHESS, October 1973, Vol.39/683-4, p17). BCM, December 1973, p505, gives the leading scores as (1) Anthony J Miles 11/11; (2) Dr. Heinz Lehmann 9; (3) A O'Kelly de Galway 8... regional UK newspapers (e.g. Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 22 September 1973) reported that this was the 4th Malta International and that David Parr tied with Dr. Lehmann for second place.
October 27-28 - England v Netherlands, Manchester - two draws on board 7 vs R Hartoch (no scores available - report, BCM, February 1974, p59)
1974
May 24-27 - 25th Ilford Open: (1-2) Anthony J Miles, A J Mestel 5½/6; (3-8) A H Williams, L S F Blackstock, G H James, A J Stebbings, M J Basman, M J Bulford 5; (9-14) R Bellin, M V Woodhams, A L Hosking, A Phillips, G H Bennett, A Pope, R D Keene, D Sherman, E McCarthy 4½; (15-34) K J O'Connell, K L Escott, J A Johnson, G J Nicholas, J M Hodgson, A Wodzianek, N S Cooper, M A Vellacott, O Sarapu, A H Perkins, N Birnboim, R F A Harman, P J Adams, M H Hawley, M J Yeo, W A Linton, Dr. G P Burton, G Campbell, J A Dodgson, A Bernfield 4, etc.
September 13-15 2nd London CC Invitation, Mary Ward Centre, London : (1) Simon Webb 4½/5; (2-3) Bernhard Feustal (FRG), Daniel Wright 4; (4-7) Robert Bellin, Martyn Corden, Jonathan Mestel (World U-18 Champion), IM Anthony J Miles (World Junior Champion) 3½; (8-15) M J Basman, G S Botterill, M L Fuller (AUS), D R Johnston, J D M Nunn, J C Pigott, H Schussler (SWE), M F Stean 3; 16-22 C S Crouch, R Ekstrom (SWE), N J Holloway, S J Hutchings (WLS), P J Lee, J E Littlewood, J S Speelman 2½; (23-26) Paul E Littlewood, J G Nicholson, IM Hans Ree (NED), M V Woodhams (AUS) 2; (27-29) D S C Goodman, J M Hodgson, G E J Lambert 1½; (30-33) M J Franklin, C A Plasa, P J Sowray, Dinah Wright 1; (34) Susan Caldwell ½.
1975
October 31 - November 2 - 2nd LARA Open, Southwark College, London: (1) Daniel Wright 5½/6; (2-8) Eugene B Meyer (USA), John Nunn, Andrew P Law, Alex T Richardson (aged 17), Roger D de Coverly, David Parr, Michael J Franklin 5. Paul Littlewood scored 4½. 211 competitors. Info from BCM, February 1976, p63, which also reported that "Tony Miles scored only 3½"; however, his game scores show that Miles won four games and lost two for 4/6.
1976
July 30 - August 1 - Evening Standard London Congress, National Bank of Dubai Open: (1) Craig W Pritchett (Scotland) 5½/6; (2-7) Robert Bellin, Murray Chandler, Max Fuller, John E Littlewood, Anthony J Miles, Jonathan Speelman 5; (8-22) C W Baker, H D Macpherson, I R Watson, M J Franklin, M J Basman, S H Berry, H Bohm (NED), G S Botterill, C S Crouch, D S C Goodman, V W Knox, B Kurajica, D E Rumens, P V Byway, P J Sowray 4½.
August 9-20 - British Championship, Portsmouth. Tony Miles scored 6½/11, ranked 7-11th.
August 28 - September 5 - COOP Tournament, Stockholm: (1) Anthony J Miles 8½/9; (2) D Sahovic 6, etc. Crosstable.
1977
June 28 - July 16 - Amsterdam IBM: (1) Anthony J Miles 10½/15; (2) K Hulak 9½; (3-4) V Liberzon, L Kavalek 9, etc. Crosstable.
1978
April 2-10 - Lone Pine (Louis D Statham) Masters: (1) Bent Larsen 7½/9; (2) Lev Polugaevsky 7; (3-5) Lajos Portisch, Anatoly Lein, Jack Peters 6½; Tony Miles scored 5½/9, ranked 11-16th. Full crosstable in BCM, June 1978, ppn 261-262. Crosstable.
1979
May 5-26 - Oude Masters Grand Prix, Pretoria / Durban / Cape Town / Johannesburg, South Africa - a four-player round-robin in which the four players played each other four times at four different venues. 12 of the 24 games available, including 10½ of Miles's 12 games (all 4 games vs Korchnoi, 3+part-game vs Unzicker, 3 vs Lein). Exact dates and round numbers as yet undiscovered.
| 1979 Oude Masters Grand Prix South Africa |
Fed | Elo | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor Korchnoi | SUI | 2695g |
|
½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8½ | ||
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ||||||||
| 2 | Wolfgang Unzicker | FRG | 2530g | ½ | ½ |
|
1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 6½ | ||
| 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ||||||||
| 3 | Anthony J Miles | ENG | 2560g | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ |
|
1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| 4 | Anatoly Lein | USA | 2535g | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
4 | ||
| ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
August 6-17 - 66th British Championship, Chester: (1-3) Robert Bellin (1st on tie-break), John D M Nunn, Nigel D Short 8/11; (4) Anthony J Miles 7½; (5-13) Jonathan S Speelman, John E Littlewood, Peter G Large, George S Botterill, Paul E Littlewood, Michael J Haygarth, Nigel E Povah, Mark L Hebden, Murray G Chandler 7, etc.
File updated
| Date | Notes |
| 11 February 2026 | First upload of 975 games. The major new material that hasn't been available previously are the games played in UK weekenders. My thanks to Geoff Lawton for digitising these games and giving access to them. My own input has been to discover as many dates and round numbers as possible, and to compare and check versions of the scores. Many tournament record details have still to be added but the games collection phase is largely complete to the end of 1979. |