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Walter Browne

1949 - 2015

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Walter Browne is the 246th most popular chess player (up from 252nd in 2024), the 452nd most popular biography from Australia (up from 464th in 2019) and the most popular Australian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Walter Browne ranks 246 out of 461. Before him are Kiril Georgiev, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Harika Dronavalli, Alexander Morozevich, Andrija Fuderer, and Cristina Adela Foișor. After him are Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Alexander Grischuk, Antoaneta Stefanova, Valery Salov, Lev Psakhis, and Aloyzas Kveinys.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Walter Browne ranks 729. Before him are Terry Zwigoff, Alfonso Pérez, Philip J. Currie, Charles Rocket, Alfredo Quesada, and Zyta Gilowska. After him are Daniel Leclercq, Hannu Siitonen, Rick Rosenthal, Jerome Apt, Haroun Kabadi, and Brian Kerwin. Among people deceased in 2015, Walter Browne ranks 501. Before him are Holly Woodlawn, Peter Kern, Jonathan Crombie, Kim Fowley, Mal Whitfield, and Alan Hodgkinson. After him are Ron Springett, Zhivko Gospodinov, Justin Wilson, Wilfred Agbonavbare, Peter Pišťanek, and Wolfram Wuttke.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Walter Browne ranks 452 out of 1,143. Before him are Jon Henricks (1935), Damon Herriman (1970), Ian O'Brien (1947), Jacqueline McKenzie (1967), Nick Kyrgios (1995), and Dustin Clare (1982). After him are Matthew Spiranovic (1988), Jacob Elordi (1997), Ernest Chapman (1926), H. V. Evatt (1894), Coral Browne (1913), and Peter Sculthorpe (1929).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Australia

Among chess players born in Australia, Walter Browne ranks 1. 

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