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American-Norwegian chess grandmaster and journalist

Jonathan Tisdall
Full nameJonathan D. Tisdall
CountryIreland (until 1987)
Norway (since 1987)
BornAugust 26, 1958 (1958-08-26) (age 66)
Buffalo, New York, United States
TitleGrandmaster (1993)
Peak rating2515 (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.

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Norwegian Grandmasters
Chess players for Norway with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)


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