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| Jul-09-15 | | cro777: Walter Browne's best games
In honor of GM Browne, Chess.com staff took a look at his best chess games, including his last game at the 2015 National Open in Las Vegas, played four days before his death. http://www.chess.com/article/view/w... For the latest issue of Chess Informant (the Informant 124) Browne had annotated two of his recent wins. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIUR9XY... |
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Jul-09-15
 | | OBIT: I find it very odd that so far a specific reason for Browne's death has not been given, only that he died in his sleep. I mention this because prescription drugs have been known to cause death. My aunt, for example, died in her sleep, like Browne. Also like Browne, she had been active just before her death, making her passing totally unexpected. She had been taking Vioxx, a prescription drug that is now known to have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people. So I am asking: Is it known WHY Browne died? Was he, like most Americans his age, taking prescription drugs? Is there a chance one of those drugs is the reason for his death? |
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Jul-09-15
 | | perfidious: If an autopsy was performed on the decedent, the cause of death would not yet have been ascertained, fifteen days on. Other than three meetings at the board, did not know Browne, so would have no way of knowing what may have brought about his end, nor do I have any interest in speculating over possible causes. |
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| Jul-09-15 | | diceman: <OBIT:
So I am asking: Is it known WHY Browne died?>I heard he had cancer and assumed that was part of the cause. ...but I don't Know the details of his illness.
He certainly looked "thin" during the Seirawan interview. |
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| Jul-10-15 | | cro777: Malcolm Pain continues his tribute to Walter Browne: "Remarkably, Browne attended the same school as Bobby Fischer, Erasmus High in New York. Like Fischer, Browne dropped out of school to play chess professionally ..." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/... |
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| Jul-23-15 | | wrap99: <cro777> There are a few amazing high schools in NYC. Of course Barbra Streisand also went to Erasmus with Bobby where apparently they hung out but there is no evidence of subsequent contact. Other schools with many famous alumni: Bronx HS of Science, Dewitt Clinton, Stuyvesant. |
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Jul-23-15
| | OBIT: <wrap99> In an interview, Streisand mentioned being aware of Fischer in high school, evidently finding him attractive, but alas, this was unrequited love. When an interviewer mentioned that Barbra Streisand was one of his high school classmates, Fischer's response was, "I’ve heard this. I remember some mousy looking girl. Maybe that was her, I don’t know." It's fair to say tact was never one of Fischer's strong suits. |
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Jul-23-15
| | OBIT: Heh, you can even find this interview segment on the Internet: http://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/f... |
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| Jul-24-15 | | wrap99: <OBIT> I vaguely remember that. I think his antisemitism may have gotten in the way. A shame because she might have been willing to help him at a time when he needed it although perhaps Fischer always had access to help if only he had been willing to take it. BTW, didn't Fischer want Browne to be his second or help with analysis at one point? High praise indeed. |
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Aug-06-15
 | | offramp: <perfidious: ...Other than three meetings at the board, did not know Browne...> Did you really never meet him over the green baize? I read that Browne had career poker tournament winnings of $300,000. |
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Aug-06-15
| | perfidious: <offramp> Only on the 64 squares--never on the felt, as most of my play has been online, not live. He could play a little, though. |
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| Aug-08-15 | | wrap99: <offramp> Browne used to play cards in the Bay Area and he won a bracelet at thw WSOP in seven stud. With all due modesty, it was I who suggested to him that with the sort of memory that a GM has, this was the game (as opposed to holdem) that he should be focusing on. But he also did well in the seniors holdem event several years ago at the WSOP. |
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Aug-08-15
| | perfidious: <wrap99: <offramp> Browne used to play cards in the Bay Area and he won a bracelet at thw WSOP in seven stud....> Browne finished runner-up in a H.O.R.S.E. event at the 2007 WSOP, but never won a WSOP tourney: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/pla... |
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| Aug-09-15 | | wrap99: <perfidious> I may be misremembering. It could have been horse that I was thinking of. Anyhow, he played 7-stud way above average and I was told by the guy who won it years ago that he could think of no way of playing it without remembering every card -- this is something a GM should be able to do. |
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Aug-09-15
 | | Eggman: Oh, I'm just finding out about Browne's passing reading this thread! I read his autobiography "The Stress Of Chess" not long ago. Entertaining. :( |
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Aug-09-15
| | perfidious: <wrap99> I would take a bracelet in HORSE over any of the individual games which comprise that discipline. |
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Aug-09-15
 | | harrylime: I'm gutted.
He was one of my heroes starting out in chess.
Just gutted. |
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| Aug-10-15 | | Granny O Doul: "The Compleat Chess Addict" reported that RJF (as he was then) and Barbara (as she was then) used to swap MAD magazines in the back of the classroom. No source, and likely false, but an amusing thought nonetheless. |
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| Aug-11-15 | | wrap99: <Granny>
Not impossible, at least MM was being published then. Even extraordinary kids still behave like kids sometimes. |
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Aug-11-15
| | perfidious: Good old Mad Magazine--lots of fun satire, back in the day. |
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Aug-11-15
 | | Sally Simpson: Apparently Mad Magazine did a cartoon of the game.
A M Swank vs Fischer, 1956
(see post by 'technical draw' on the 10th September 2010.) Anybody seen it? |
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| Aug-12-15 | | zanzibar: Here's a chess themed cartoon by Don Martin:
http://www.mark-weeks.com/cfaa/cfa-...
(I think it's an animated gif, cycling through the cartoon panels) Courtesy of Mark Weeks. |
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Aug-12-15
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Zanzibar,
Thanks. It looks like it was originally a strip cartoon and has been GIF'd. It's Don Martin alright the flappy feet were his trademark. I'll go through my 1956/57 Amercian Chess Mags on CD and see if I can find anything. |
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| Jan-10-16 | | TheFocus: Happy Birthday, GM Browne. |
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| Jan-27-16 | | TheFocus: This is from the Mechanics Institute newsletter for 1/22/16: 4) A letter from John Hilbert about Walter Browne
The following material comes from the noted chess historian John Hilbert, the world’s greatest expert on American chess from 1850 to 1950. He writes: <Knowing your interest in Walter Browne, I attach a game played in the 1972 (6th) New York City championship, held at the McAlpin Hotel in NYC, against Ariel Mengarini. In looking over some other materials from Ariel Mengarini’s scores, I happened on it and thought you might like to see it. I didn’t see the game listed in the index to the 1972 Chess Life & Review, although the tournament itself was advertised in the April 1972 issue, at page 261. I also didn’t find the game in Browne’s game collection.Mengarini finished 0–3 against Browne in 1972, including his loss in round 7 in that August’s US Open, held in Atlantic City, NJ. Mengarini was hardly a weak player, though. He had, in the same tournament, just the round before, drawn with Arnold Denker. And in round five he had beaten some fellow named Bent Larsen (Browne also beat Larsen that year, winning the US Open with 10½–1½. Browne also wrote that “Larsen was about 25 minutes late for every game and used only about one hour in each, which partly explains his poor performance.” CL&R, 1972, p.623. See full tournament crosstable, CL&R, 1972, p.674). The 1972 US Open games are in ChessBase, but this NYC championship game is not.> Ruy Lopez
Walter Browne–Ariel Mengarini
New York City Championship (4) 1972
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 Bg4 9.d3 O-O 10.Nbd2 d5 11.h3 Bh5 12.Qe2 dxe4 13.dxe4 Qd7 14.Nf1 Rad8 15.Ng3 Bg6 16.Rd1 Qc8 17.Nh4 Na5 18.Nhf5 Rfe8 19.Nxe7+ Rxe7 20.Rxd8+ Qxd8 21.Bc2 Ne8 22.a4 c6 23.axb5 axb5 24.b3 f6 25.Be3 Bf7 26.Nf5 Rd7 27.Ra3 Nd6 28.Nh6+ gxh6 29.Rxa5 f5 30.Ra6 Qc8 31.Ra1 Nxe4 32. Bxe4 fxe4 33. g4+ Kh8 34.Bxh6 Bxb3 35.Bg7+ Kg8 36.Bxe5+ Kf8 37.Bd6+ Kf7 38.Qf5+ Kg8 39.Ra7 1-0. |
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