Walter Browne
Walter Shawn Browne ( born January 10, 1949 in Sydney ) is an Australian- American chess master.
Life
Walter Browne's parents, an American father and an Australian mother, moved from Australia to the USA ( in the area of New York) in order, as Browne was three years old. In 1966 he became Junior Champion of the United States. He dropped out of high school and devoted himself entirely to chess games. He had a coach ever, instead he played countless blitz games for small stakes. In 1969 he represented Australia at the zone tournament in Singapore where he won jointly with Renato Naranja and was subsequently appointed by the FIDE International Master for. Browne received on its own merits, an invitation to the Grand Master tournament in San Juan (Puerto Rico), which took place in 1969. In this tournament, it is a victory against Lubomir Kavalek and in the final managed a shared second place with Bruno Parma and Arthur Bisguier behind champion Boris Spassky. FIDE awarded Browne then the title Grandmaster.
1973 Browne moved to California. After the withdrawal of Bobby Fischer chess he was considered one of the leading chess players in the United States. He won the United States Championship six times, the National Open 11 times, the American Open seven times and the U.S. Open and the World Open three times each. Among his most important successes in international tournaments include his victories in Venice in 1971, Wijk aan Zee 1974 and 1980, Reykjavik in 1978, Chile in 1981, Indonesia 1982 ( a mammoth tournament with 26 participants and 25 rounds), the New York Open 1983 Gjøvik 1983 Næastved 1985th for the candidates fighting for the World Chess Championship he never was able to qualify. When Manila Interzonal 1976, he came only at number 15, and the Interzonal 1979, he was unable to attend because he was in 1978 not competed at the state championship of the USA and he was granted no free space. Browne took part in six Chess Olympiads: 1970 and 1972 respectively on top board for Australia as well as 1974, 1978, 1982 and 1984 for the U.S.. He scored 55.5 points from 86 games and won one individual and four team bronze medals. In 1988 he founded the World Blitz Chess Association, an organization to promote chess flash, and published the magazine Blitz Chess. The U.S. Chess Federation USCF took Browne 2003 into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. Most recently, he was on top of the open U.S. Senior Championship in 2005.
Browne's style is very sharp and attack oriented. He benefited from his good opening knowledge, he is considered among others as an expert on the Najdorf. The games played by him are always very demanding and put the stoppage ends in voltage. On board, he is known for his extremely nervous behavior. His current Elo rating is 2449 (as of July 2012).
Game example
A strong opening novelty brought Browne with the white pieces in his game against Arthur Bisguier with the U.S. National Championship in 1974.
In the diagram position that had emerged from one of the major variants of the Russian Defense (ECO code C42 ), he played the amazing train 14 Lc1 - h6. The purpose of this is to gain a tempo for connecting the towers and exploit the unrochierte position the black king in the e-file. After acceptance of the rotor victim Browne proposed the continuation: 14 ... g7xh6 15 Te1 - e5 - d7 Qd5 16 Ta1 - e1 - e6 Bf5 17 d4 -d5 c6xd5 18 Te5xe6 f7xe6 19 Dc3xh8 Be7 -f8 20 Qh8 - f6 Bf8 - e7 21 Te5xe6 and wins. Bisguier decided after 45 minutes thinking about 14 ... Th8 - g8. This was followed by 15 Te1 - e5 - d7 Qd5 16 Ta1 - e1 - e6 Bf5 17 Nf3 - g5 0-0-0 18 Sg5xf7 Le6xf7 19 Te5xe7 Dd7xd4 20 Te7xf7 Dd4xc3 21 b2xc3 g7xh6 22 Te1 -b1 and White won the game after 40 moves.
Poker
Since the 1970s, he also plays poker professionally. He was, among others, at the World Series of Poker 2007 Second in a HORSE tournament and won $ 131,445. Overall, it reached 2007, three cashed. In the Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship he could with both a 158 space and 2011 reach the money ranks in 2010 with an 8th place.