William Watson (chess player)

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William Watson
Personal information
Born (1962-04-18) April 18, 1962 (age 63)
Chess career
Country England
Title Grandmaster (1990)
FIDE   rating 2474 (October 2025)
Peak rating 2560 (July 1992)
Peak rankingNo. 75 (July 1987)

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

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. The Complete Najdorf: Modern Lines by Nunn and Gallagher (Batsford, 1998), p. 159.
  2. Slaughter and May - William Watson