Ryan Palmer (born 23 January 1974) is a

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player of

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n origin; he was the Jamaican National Champion in 1992. During the academic years of 2004-2007, he taught

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

at Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire, and now has moved to the

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, to pursue further studies. In both 2006 and 2007, he and his teammates were the Shropshire Chess League Division 1 Champions. In 2007, Palmer accomplished one win, one draw, and one loss leading to an accumulative score of 50%. He later returned to the UK to teach at St Olaves Grammar School, Orpington and is now teaching maths at Richmond Park Academy

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''The Chess Drum'' Article
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''Ryan Palmer 365Chess.com''
1974 births Living people Jamaican chess players People from Newport, Shropshire {{Jamaica-chess-bio-stub