It's only me
Tony Miles "It's only me" - ed. Batsford What is for everyone, the official autobiography of the late Tony Miles, is in fact something more: a book of matches, interviews, stories and points of view, assembled by journalist Geoff Lawton with the complicity of Miles himself and then published after his death in November 2001. It so happens that the eccentric but brilliant English GM says to the reader the matches and his career with disarming simplicity, the gate between the hours of Tilburg chess tournament or Las Palmas, now open space with its original outside opinions freely, outspoken, in a tone that is practical and sharp typical of the British. Yes, because Miles was exactly that, a real GM and the immense talent and a man with absolute antithesis of the so-called "political correctness" that is so fashionable even among chess players: a man capable of self-irony, that to explain the failure of his marriage compares it to a final bishops of opposite color, but also irreverent and biting sarcasm, as when renamed "Forrest Gump" fellow countryman Nigel Short. "It is true that We speak: it is he who has never clever things to say. "This was Tony Miles, witty and brilliant, true champion, but also fragile in his nervous breakdown and its human parable that led to premature death. In the middle , between the pages, matches, matches and games, "told" rather than discuss the point that to enjoy the good book should read it in some pub, with Guinness still flow and the illusion of listening to the great Tony analyzing the blind and the other between sips. remains a mystery: It's only me
.. why? But because it is an anagram of Tony Miles and one of his nick on online gaming platform ICC. That's it? No , maybe not. Why Miles, one who understood chess and to Anand, who first predicted a future world champion, was part of that England which lives deep in factories and pubs, which is pragmatic, skeptical and profoundly secular. That is why, not coincidentally, quell'anagramma, "It's only me," is also the direction of one of the most popular songs of the legendary Jethro Tull
, the group that accounted for the same record company (Chrysalis), which some years ago Batsford detected by adding features to the traditional butterfly wings logo. Funny how coincidences can sometimes become intriguing, right? ... If you are no coincidences! "I do not believe you know I was John Silver!" And the pirate Tony Miles, with black, replied 1 ... a6 opening Karpov, beating . Aqualong my friend, do not you star away uneasy ....
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