- Jonathan Mestel
Dr Andrew Jonathan Mestel (born
13 March 1957 inCambridge ,England ) is an applied mathematician atImperial College who works onmagnetohydrodynamics and biologicalfluid dynamics . He was the first person to be awarded chessInternational Grandmaster titles byFIDE in both over-the-board play and problem solving. He is also close to Grandmaster strength at Contract Bridge.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 theWorld Chess Solving Championship in 1997. Along withJohn 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 on his board. 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 1983European 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 asPhilosopher's Quest .He is the son of astronomer
Leon Mestel .Married since 1982 to Anna O´Donovan, they have a son, David, born in February 1992.External links
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* [http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~ajm8/ Jonathan Mestel's home page]
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* [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/19rbvntg.html OlimpBase]
*Interactive fiction games by [http://baf.wurb.com/if/person/971 Jonathan Mestel]
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