William_Watson_(chess_player)

William Watson (chess player)

William Watson (chess player)

English chess player

William Nicholas Watson (born 18 April 1962 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an English chess grandmaster.

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Watson was British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 1992 and British Chess Champion in 1994. Boris Spassky once described his style of play as that of a drunk with a machine gun.[1]

Watson has long been inactive as a competitive chess player, and is a tax attorney and partner at Slaughter and May.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    The Complete Najdorf: Modern Lines by Nunn and Gallagher (Batsford, 1999).
  2. [2]
    Slaughter and May - William Watson


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