Norman Alasdair Macleod (6 December 1927, in

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– 2 October 1991) was a

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chess player and

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. He gained title Grandmaster of the FIDE for Chess Composition in 1993.

References

* The Chessboard Adventures of Norman Macleod, Feenschach-Phenix 1997. Edited by John Rice.

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110727183133/http://www.chessscotland.com/history/biographies/macleod_na.htm
Macleod's Problems on PDB server
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