Career
Webb was briefly a professional player in the late 1970s, participated in a number of strong tournaments, and met some strong players, including a 17-year-old Garry Kasparov at the 1980 European Team Championship (Webb lost). At one event, he was assigned a lady translator. Webb married her and took her to England.
He was joint second in the 1975 British Championship behind William Hartston.
Perhaps his best tournament result was joint first with Liuben Spassov at Hamburg 1977, ahead of István Csom and Milan Matulovic. He became an International Master in 1977.
His final FIDE Elo rating was 2420. Webb took up correspondence chess in the early 1980s, and all but gave up over-the-board play for a long time.
He gained the International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster title in 1983 and scored a number of impressive results.
His final International Correspondence Chess Federation Elo rating was 2609. Webb was perhaps best known for his humorous book on practical tournament play, Chess for Tigers (Oxford University Press, 1978, ). In later years, Webb lived in Sweden.
Since the late 1990s, he played in the Swedish team championship.
On 14 March 2005, he was stabbed to death in the family kitchen by his 25-year-old son, Dennis, after an argument. He survived with just a broken nose.