Walter Browne

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Walter Browne
Browne in 1975
Personal information
Full nameWalter Shawn Browne
Born(1949-01-10)10 January 1949
Sydney, Australia
Died24 June 2015(2015-06-24) (aged 66)
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Chess career
Country
  • Australia (until 1974)
  • United States (from 1974)
TitleGrandmaster (1970)
Peak rating2590 (July 1982)
Peak rankingNo. 14 (January 1976)

Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian-born American chess and poker player. Awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 1970, he won the U.S. Chess Championship six times.

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