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Fame!! I’m the David Watts of Pinner, Middlesex and Cambridge University and I claim my £5. Sadly, I was never an FM, not even unofficially, and equally sadly I never wrote the allegedly worst chess book in the world. I was a little on the young side to have been Ray Davies’ muse, but “David ...

In my teenage years I read the following types of books.

• Chess books.
• Books on the English Lit 'O' Level syllabus.
• Err - that's it.

I think that's what gave me my lifelong love of highbrow literature.

Most influential chess book: Kotov's Think Like a Grandmaster.

There I was, idly googling myself, when I stumbled on this thread. How very excellent to see so many names from so very long ago:) I don't have any new suggestions on who the mystery man might be. I did keep a programme, and it was definitely in my loft 5 years ago. I'll try to dig it out from the m...