Jonathan D. Tisdall (born August 26, 1958 in Buffalo, New York) is a grandmaster of chess (title awarded 1993) and works as a freelance journalist. An American citizen by origin, he became Irish and later Norwegian. He was born to a Japanese mother and an Irish father.
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Full name | Jonathan D. Tisdall |
Country | Norway |
Born | August 26, 1958 Buffalo, New York, U.S. | (age 65)
Title | Grandmaster (1993) |
Peak rating | 2515 (July 1996) |
He was Norwegian Chess Champion in 1987, 1991 and 1995. Combining chess with his job as a journalist, he often attends major chess events as a reporter for Reuters.
He is one of two people on the staff of the English-language section of the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten's internet edition. He has also written articles in magazines such as The Spectator, The Economist and Scanorama.
In recent years,[when?] he has been studying the Japanese chess variant of shogi.