William Watson (chess player)

English chess grandmaster (born 1962)

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.

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

References

v t e English Grandmasters
Chess players for England with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
1970s	Tony Miles Raymond Keene Michael Stean John Nunn
1980s	Jon Speelman Jonathan Mestel Nigel Short Harry Golombek James Plaskett Glenn Flear Julian Hodgson Michael Adams Daniel King David Norwood Mihai Suba
1990s	Joseph Gallagher Anthony Kosten William Watson Stuart Conquest Mark Hebden Nigel Davies Jonathan Penrose Matthew Sadler Jonathan Levitt Peter Wells Keith Arkell John Emms James Howell Neil McDonald Chris Ward Dharshan Kumaran Aaron Summerscale
2000s	Luke McShane Jonathan Parker Nicholas Pert Matthew Turner Alexander Cherniaev Daniel Gormally David Howell Gawain Jones Stewart Haslinger Simon Williams Stephen J. Gordon
2010s	Jonathan Hawkins Daniel Fernandez
2020s	Ravi Haria Nikita Vitiugov Shreyas Royal Ameet Ghasi
See also: List of chess grandmasters Category:English chess players

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