Everything about Jonathan Mestel totally explained
Dr Andrew Jonathan Mestel (born
13 March 1957 in
Cambridge,
England) is an
applied mathematician at
Imperial College who works on
magnetohydrodynamics and biological
fluid dynamics. He was the first person to be awarded chess
International Grandmaster titles by
FIDE in both over-the-board play and
problem solving.
He was World under-16 chess champion in 1974, was awarded the chess GM title in 1982, won the
British Chess Championship in 1976, 1983 and 1988, and the
World Chess Solving Championship in 1997. Along with
John Nunn, Mestel is also a medal-winning member of the British Chess Solving Team.
Between 1976 and 1988, he was a frequent member of the English
Chess Olympiad squad, winning three team medals (two silver and one bronze). In 1984, he took an individual gold medal for an outstanding 7/9 performance. Other notable results for English teams were in 1978 at the World Student Olympiad in Mexico where he obtained a Gold Medal, and at the 1983
European Team Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
He wrote the mainframe computer game
Brand X with
Peter Killworth, which was later rewritten for
Windows and released commercially as
Philosopher's Quest.
He is the son of astronomer
Leon Mestel.
Married since 1982 to Anna O´Donovan, they've a son, David, born in February 1992.
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