Walter Browne, born on 10 January 1949 in Sydney and died on 24 June 2015, was an Australian-born American chess and poker player. FIDE awarded him the title of Grandmaster in 1970, and he became the first grandmaster born after World War II. He won the U.S. Chess Championship six times, in 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981 and 1983, a total exceeded only by Bobby Fischer and Samuel Reshevsky. He won the 1969 Australian Chess Championship, played first board for Australia at the 1970 and 1972 Chess Olympiads before switching to the United States in 1974, and won five Olympiad bronze medals in six appearances.
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10 January 1949
Plays: Chess, Lead sentence
was an Australian-born American chess and poker player.
Plays: Poker, Lead sentence
was an Australian-born American chess and poker player.
Competed In: World Series of Poker, Article text (competition)
That same weekend, Browne took byes in the National Open so he could play in the 2015 Senior Event at the World Series of Poker.
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