John WatsonJohn 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 degre 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. Read More Read Less