Jonathan D. Tisdall (born August 26, 1958) is an American-born Norwegian and Irish grandmaster of

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(title awarded 1993) and works as a freelance journalist. He was born in Buffalo,

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to a

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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

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. He is one of two people on the staff of the English-language section of the Norwegian newspaper ''

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s internet edition. He has also written articles in magazines such as ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Scanorama''. In recent years, he has been studying the Japanese chess variant of

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Books

* Tisdall, Jonathan (1997). ''Improve Your Chess Now''.

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. 224 pp. . * *Tisdall, Jonathan (1997). "Magnus Carlsen: A Life in Pictures." New in Chess. 160 pp. .

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