# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-rayner-dawson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:38:36.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-rayner-dawson"
name: "Thomas Rayner Dawson"
slug: "thomas-rayner-dawson"
description: "Thomas Rayner Dawson was an English chess problemist and is acknowledged as \"the father of Fairy Chess\". He invented many fairy pieces and new conditions. He introduced the popular fairy pieces grasshopper, nightrider, and many other fairy chess ideas."
tagline: "British chess writer (1889–1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DawsonThomasRayner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1889-11-28"
deathDate: "1951-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.94
  momentum:             12.35294117647059
  historical:           8.537257333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Thomas Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توماس داوسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توماس داوسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rayner_Dawson"
    title: "Thomas Rayner Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rayner_Dawson"
    title: "Thomas Rayner Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rayner_Dawson"
    title: "Thomas Rayner Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dawson"
    title: "Thomas Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rayner_Dawson"
    title: "Thomas Rayner Dawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomass_Dosons"
    title: "Tomass Dosons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Доусон, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1369674"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump