Walter Browne

Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an American chess Grandmaster and poker player. Browne won the U.S. Chess Championship six times. He was born to an American father and Australian mother in Sydney. He moved to New York at age three.
Browne died in Las Vegas, Nevada after playing at a championship game there. He was 66 years old.