John L. Watson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

John L. Watson

chess player

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1951

Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Profession: chess player, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About John L. Watson

  • John Leonard Watson (born 1951) is a chess International Master and author. Watson was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska.
  • He was educated at Brownell-Talbot, Harvard, and the University of California, San Diego, where he took his degree in engineering.
  • He has won many chess tournaments including the first US National High School Chess Championship and the American Open. Watson is best known as a chess theorist and author, and has written more than thirty books on many aspects of chess.
  • His 1999 book Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy won the British Chess Federation's Book of the year award as well as the United States Chess Federation Book of the Year.
  • The successor volume Chess Strategy in Action was the Chesscafe Book of the Year.
  • These two books explore and theorize how radically chess has changed since the early 20th century, and how old and supposedly 'time-tested' rules for the conduct of play have been replaced by broader and revolutionary practice over-the-board.
  • These books have been translated into several languages.
  • In a lighter vein, Watson wrote the Chessman comic book series, illustrated by Chris Hendrickson and Svein Myreng.
  • Chessman Comics are now out-of-print collectors' items.
  • Watson has a regular book review column at The Week in Chess, the publication of the London Chess Centre (available online).
  • He has a weekly Internet radio show 'Chess Talk with John Watson' on Chess.FM, the radio arm of the Internet Chess Club (ICC). Watson is also much in demand as a chess coach; his students have included Tal Shaked, the 1997 World Junior Champion, Senior Master Patrick Hummel, Abby Marshall, and also other US scholastic champions. Watson is married to Maura Giles-Watson; they live in San Diego, California.

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