Jonathan Tisdall
American-Norwegian chess grandmaster and journalist
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| Full name | Jonathan D. Tisdall |
| Country | Norway (after 1987) Ireland (before 1987) |
| Born | August 26, 1958 (1958-08-26) (age 65) 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,[when?] 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
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
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Norwegian Grandmasters
Chess players for Norway with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
- Simen Agdestein (1985)
- Jonathan Tisdall (1993)
- Einar Gausel (1995)
- Rune Djurhuus (1996)
- Leif E. Johannessen (2002)
- Berge Østenstad (2003)
- Magnus Carlsen (2004)
- Kjetil A. Lie (2005)
- Leif Øgaard (2007)
- Jon Ludvig Hammer (2009)
- Torbjørn R. Hansen (2015)
- Aryan Tari (March 2016)
- Frode Urkedal (April 2016)
- Johan Salomon (2017)
- Johan-Sebastian Christiansen (2018)
- Benjamin A. Notkevich (2018)
- Lars Oskar Hauge (2022)
- Elham Amar (2024)
- See also: List of chess grandmasters
- Category:Norwegian chess players
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