Background
His father is Irish and his mother is Japanese.
His father is Irish and his mother is Japanese.
An American citizen by origin, he became Irish and later Norwegian. 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.