Jonathan Tisdall
Jonathan Tisdall | |
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| Full name | Jonathan D. Tisdall |
| Country | Ireland (until 1987) Norway (since 1987) |
| Born | August 26, 1958 (age 66) Buffalo, New York, United States |
| Title | Grandmaster (1993) |
| Peak rating | 2515 (July 1996) |
Jonathan D. Tisdall (born August 26, 1958) is an American-born Norwegian and Irish grandmaster of chess (title awarded 1993) and works as a freelance journalist. He was born in Buffalo, New York to a Japanese mother and an Irish father.
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, he has been studying the Japanese chess variant of shogi.
Books
- Tisdall, Jonathan (1997). Improve Your Chess Now. Everyman Chess. 224 pp. ISBN 1-85744-156-7.
- Seirawan, Yasser; Tisdall, Jonathan (1997), Five Crowns, International Chess Enterprises, ISBN 978-1879479029
- Tisdall, Jonathan (1997). "Magnus Carlsen: A Life in Pictures." New in Chess. 160 pp. ISBN 9056919911.
External links
- Jonathan D. Tisdall rating card at FIDE
- Jonathan D. Tisdall player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Jonathan D. Tisdall chess games at 365Chess.com
- Jonathan Tisdall rating and tournament record at US Chess Federation
- Capsule biography of Jonathan Tisdall – Aftenposten