Jonathan Tisdall

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. Provided by Wikipedia