Walter Shawn Browne (born January 10, 1949 in Sydney, Australia) is an American chess Grandmaster and poker player. Browne has won the U.S. Chess Championship six times.
Browne was born to an American father and an Australian mother. His family moved to the New York area when he was three and Browne moved to California in 1973.
Browne won the U.S. Junior Championship in 1966.
He represented his country of birth Australia for a short time. He won ...
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Walter Shawn Browne (born January 10, 1949 in Sydney, Australia) is an American chess Grandmaster and poker player. Browne has won the U.S. Chess Championship six times.
Browne was born to an American father and an Australian mother. His family moved to the New York area when he was three and Browne moved to California in 1973.
Browne won the U.S. Junior Championship in 1966.
He represented his country of birth Australia for a short time. He won the 1969 Australian Chess Championship. He tied first with Renato Naranja while representing Australia at the 1969 Asian Zonal tournament in Singapore, earning the International Master title, which immediately earned him an invitation to an international grandmaster tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There, he gained the Grandmaster title by tying for second through fourth places, with Bruno Parma and Arthur Bisguier, behind reigning world champion Boris Spassky.
He played first board for Australia at the 1970 and 1972 Chess Olympiads,...
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