| Jun-02-04 | | weary willy: The grandmaster who plays like a "drunk machine gunner" - but I can't remember who said that about Willie. Largely inactive now? What is he doing (and what are Stean, Nunn, Mestel, Speelman doing to earn a crust now?) |
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Jun-02-04
 | | mahmoudkubba: ANYHOW IS HE SWEDEN, RUSSIAN, OR a USA player or from which country??
Any information on him please??
One another question how to go to find information on a player in the chessgames.com database?? |
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| Jun-02-04 | | ughaibu: He's a Brit. |
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| Oct-13-04 | | Jesuitic Calvinist: <WW> Last time I saw WNW, he was working in the City of London as a lawyer. |
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| Feb-11-08 | | katar: According to Wikipedia:
Boris Spassky once famously described his style of play as that of a drunk with a machine gun.[1] Nowadays a practicing lawyer, Watson has for many years been inactive as a chess player. |
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| Apr-18-08 | | brankat: <Boris Spassky once famously described his style of play as that of a drunk with a machine gun.> That's how I play more and more often. Not really suited for educational chess books, but a lot of fun :-) Happy Birthday Mr.Watson! |
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| Apr-18-09 | | wordfunph: <Boris Spassky once famously described his style of play as that of a drunk with a machine gun.> Hope that GM Watson won't get hold of a machine gun and alcohol during games coz it will surely be an interesting game.. Happy Birthday to lawyer GM William Watson.. |
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Jan-22-11
 | | GrahamClayton: A game not in the database:
[Event "?"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1987.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Watson, William Nicholas"]
[Black "Dunworth, Christopher"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 ♘f6 2. ♘c3 d5 3. e5 ♘e4 4. ♘ce2 f6 5. d3 ♘g5 6. ♗xg5 fxg5 7. h4 g4 8. ♘f4 g6 9. d4 ♗h6 10. ♘d3 ♘a6 11. ♗e2 c5 12. ♗xg4 cxd4 13. h5 ♘c5 14. ♗xc8 ♖xc8 15. ♘f3 ♕a5+ 16. ♔f1 ♘e4 17. hxg6 hxg6 18. ♘xd4 ♔d7 19. g3 ♗e3 
click for larger view20. ♕g4+ ♔c7 21. ♖xh8 ♖xh8 22. ♘b3 ♕b6 23. fxe3 ♕xe3 24. ♔g2 ♘g5 25. ♖e1 1-0 Source: Bill Wall, “500 Alekhine Miniatures”, Chess Enterprises, Moon Township, Pennsylvania, 1994 |
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Mar-01-12
| | GrahamClayton: Here is a quick Watson victory that I have uploaded to the database: [Event "it"]
[Site "Gijon, France"]
[Date "1988.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez"]
[Black "William Nicholas Watson"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bh4 g5 4. f3 gxh4 5. fxe4 e5 6. Nf3 Bh6 7. g3 O-O 8.
dxe5 Nc6 9. c3 d6 10. exd6 cxd6 11. Nbd2 Be6 12. Nb3 Qb6 13. gxh4 Be3 14. Qd3 Ne5 15. Nxe5 dxe5 0-1 Source: Nick DeFirmian, Modern Chess Openings, 13th Edition, David McKay Company, New York, 1990, p. 448. |
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Mar-01-12
| | GrahamClayton: I had a chuckle at Willie's biography here: http://www.chambersandpartners.com/... Chess was a "mini-career" before his "real" career as a lawyer :-) |
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| Mar-02-12 | | King Death: Yeah, he really didn't do anything in chess with that mini career. Just a GM. What a fish. One small note on the site in the game above, Gijon is in Spain not France. It was one of the places where Alekhine played at the end of his life after the French regained their country and I think the French would've considered him persona non grata. |
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| Apr-18-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, William Watson. |
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| Jul-27-19 | | BIDMONFA: William Nicholas Watson WATSON, WILLIAM N.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/watson_will...
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| Jul-27-19 | | Granny O Doul: Spassky also used the "drunk machine gunner" description for Igor Ivanov, though maybe in reference to just a single game. Also, it was modified by "In Russia we say...", but so far, he looks like the only one. I'm not a historian, but it appeared in Chess Life some time in the late 20th century. |
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Jul-28-19
 | | perfidious: When Spassky referred to Ivanov thus, certainly it could have been taken rather more literally, given the latter's well-known tendencies. |
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| Dec-22-23 | | whiteshark: "Last weekend [29.05.2022], my Bundesliga team Munich 1836 faced the mighty Baden-Baden and lost, but by the tremendously credible margin of just 3½-4½. I still haven’t summoned the energy since the end of lockdown to face an airport, but two Englishmen did play for us, with Gawain Jones drawing on top board against Paco Vallejo, while on bottom board <Will Watson> played Georg Meier. Many years ago, Will was my second at the Interzonal and the Candidates in Saint John, New Brunswick, but he’s long since moved on to become a very successful commercial lawyer. He has a very vigorous playing style, which Boris Spassky once memorably described as being like <“a drunk with a machine gun”> — and when Meier took too little heed of the inebriated soldier he was gunned down." - Jonathan Speelman
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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