William Watson (chess player)
- William Watson (chess player)
William Nicholas Watson (born April 18, 1962 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an English chess player who holds the title Grandmaster.
Watson was British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 1992 and British Chess Champion in 1994. Boris Spassky once famously described his style of play as that of a drunk with a machine gun. ["The Complete Najdorf: Modern Lines" by Nunn and Gallagher (Batsford, 1999).] Nowadays a practicing tax lawyer and a partner at Slaughter and May [ [http://www.slaughterandmay.com/who-we-are/partners/william-watson.aspx Slaughter and May - William Watson ] ] , Watson has for many years been inactive as a chess player.
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