Walter Browne

Walter Browne
Browne in 1975
Full name	Walter Shawn Browne
Country	Australia (before 1974) United States (after 1974)
Born	(1949-01-10)10 January 1949 Sydney, Australia
Died	24 June 2015(2015-06-24) (aged 66) Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Title	Grandmaster (1970)
Peak rating	2590 (July 1982)
Peak ranking	No. 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 by FIDE in 1970,^[1] he won the U.S. Chess Championship six times.