Jonathan Rowson

Jonathan Rowson ( born April 18, 1977 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish chess player. The third Scot after Paul Motwani and Colin McNab he carries since 1999 the title of Grand Master.

Chess career

Rowson scored as a teenager considerable success in chess, despite health impairment by a diagnosed at the age of six years, diabetes mellitus.

He respectively won the silver medal at the European Championships U18 (1995) and U20 (1997). 1999, 2001 and 2004, he was Scottish national champion. In 2002, he finished shared first place at the World Open in Philadelphia. In 2004, he won the traditional tournament in Hastings and the Championship of Great Britain. This title he defended successfully in 2005 and 2006.

1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008, he played at chess Olympiads for the Scottish national team. In the chess Bundesliga he played from 2000 to 2002 for the Solingen SG 1868. During the British team championship 4NCL he played in the 1996/97 season for Northumbria from 1997 to 1999, for the Midland Monarchs or Bigwood ( the club was renamed in 1998 ), of 1999 to 2009 Guildford A & DC (where he did not play in the season 2002/ 03) from 2009 to 2011 for Pride and Prejudice and since 2011 for Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher. Rowson won the 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2012 4NCL. In the Dutch Meesterklasse Jonathan Rowson played in the season 2000/ 01 for Schaakstad Apeldoorn. In the French Top 16 Rowson played in the season 2004/ 05 in Reims Echec et Mat, in the season 2005/ 06 at Echiqiuer Nanceien and in the season 2007/ 08 at AJE Noyon.

Academic career

Besides his chess activities, he studied at the universities of Oxford and Harvard philosophy, psychology and economics. He completed his studies with a master and started in 2005 at the University of Bristol working on his dissertation. He now works as Director of the Social Brain Centre of the Royal Society of Arts.

Author

Rowson is a well-known chess coach and author. He has published numerous articles in addition to three chess books:

  • Understanding the Grünfeld (1999, ISBN 1-901983-09-9 ) on the Grünfeld Indian Defence
  • The seven deadly sins chess (2000, ISBN 1-901983-36-6 ), German translation: The Seven Deadly Chess Sins (2003, ISBN 1-904600-05-0 )
  • Chess for Zebras (2005, ISBN 1-901983-85-4 )

In later books, he deals primarily with thought processes and psychological factors in chess.

He also writes in the magazine New In Chess the column Rowson 's Reviews where he reviews chess books.

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