Jonathan D. Tisdall (born August 26, 1958 in Buffalo, New York) is a grandmaster of chess (title awarded 1993) and works as a freelance journalist. An American citizen by origin, he became Irish and later Norwegian. He was born 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. Books Tisdall, Jonathan (1997). Improve Your Chess Now. Everyman Chess. 224 pp. . External links Capsule biography of Jonathan Tisdall – Aftenposten'' 1958 births Living people American chess players American chess writers American male journalists American non-fiction writers American people of Irish descent American writers of Japanese descent American journalists of Asian descent Irish chess players Irish people of Japanese descent Norwegian chess players Norwegian chess writers Norwegian writers Norwegian people of Irish descent Norwegian people of Japanese descent Chess grandmasters Writers from Buffalo, New York Journalists from New York (state)