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{{Short description|Irish-Norwegian chess grandmaster and journalist (born 1958)}}
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{{Infobox chess biography
| name = Jonathan Tisdall
| full_name = Jonathan D. Tisdall
| country = Ireland (until 1987)<br>Norway (since 1987)
| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|August 26, 1958}}
| birth_place = [[Buffalo, New York]], United States
| title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (1993)
| FideID = 1500066
| peakrating = 2515 (July 1996)
}}

'''Jonathan D. Tisdall''' (born August 26, 1958) is an American-born Norwegian and Irish [[International Grandmaster|grandmaster]] of [[chess]] (title awarded 1993) and works as a freelance journalist. He was born in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], [[New York (state)|New York]] to a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] mother and an [[Irish people|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,{{when|date=December 2022}} he has been studying the Japanese chess variant of [[shogi]].

== Books ==
* Tisdall, Jonathan (1997). ''Improve Your Chess Now''. [[Everyman Chess]]. 224 pp. {{ISBN|1-85744-156-7}}.
* {{citation |last1=Seirawan |first1=Yasser |author1-link=Yasser Seirawan |last2=Tisdall |first2=Jonathan |year=1997 |title=Five Crowns |publisher=International Chess Enterprises |ISBN=978-1879479029}}
*Tisdall, Jonathan (1997). "Magnus Carlsen: A Life in Pictures." [[New in Chess]]. 160 pp. {{ISBN|9056919911}}.

==External links==
* {{FIDE|1500066|Jonathan D. Tisdall}}
* {{Chessgames.com player|13939|Jonathan D. Tisdall}}
* {{365Chess.com player|Jonathan_D_Tisdall|Jonathan D. Tisdall}}
* {{USCF|10127548|Jonathan Tisdall}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060422030500/http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article199199.ece Capsule biography of Jonathan Tisdall] &ndash; ''Aftenposten''

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