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I have just received Walter Browne’s new book entitled The Stress of Chess.. and its Infinite Finesse, which has his life, career and 101 best games.
It is thick (463 pages), has a number of black and white photos and games covering the period 1963 to 2006.
The game I was particularly interested in was Browne – Fischer, Zagreb 1970, where he says that Fischer was lost on move 28. The game was eventually agreed drawn after 98 moves.
Among his opponents are Tal, Smyslov, Larsen, Reshevsky, Kortchnoi, Miles and Polugaevsky. He won the U.S. Championship six times and has impressive achievements in poker playing as well.
A big book, mostly about chess in the 70s and 80s. with copiously annotated games and a very readable memoir.
I have just received Walter Browne’s new book entitled The Stress of Chess.. and its Infinite Finesse, which has his life, career and 101 best games.
It is thick (463 pages), has a number of black and white photos and games covering the period 1963 to 2006.
The game I was particularly interested in was Browne – Fischer, Zagreb 1970, where he says that Fischer was lost on move 28. The game was eventually agreed drawn after 98 moves.
Among his opponents are Tal, Smyslov, Larsen, Reshevsky, Kortchnoi, Miles and Polugaevsky. He won the U.S. Championship six times and has impressive achievements in poker playing as well.
A big book, mostly about chess in the 70s and 80s. with copiously annotated games and a very readable memoir.
I remember Browne giving a simult at Hart House and he played in a couple of Toronto tournaments without winning them. Does the book contain any Canadian opponents?
As far as I can see, Browne only gives one game against a Canadian – Igor Ivanov at Novi Sad in 1995.
Earlier in the book he says:
(1971) A few weeks later I was off to the Canadian Open in Vancouver, with many very scenic islands nearby. The Dutch IM Hans Ree had a fine performance though he missed a win in our individual game, and he tied for first with World Champ Boris Spassky on 9 – 2. I played solidly, tying 3rd – 5th with the two strong Canadians Duncan Suttles and Zvonko Vranesic on 8 ½ - 2 ½.
(1991) In late July I stopped off in Windsor, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit, where I encountered a soft opposition including two Soviets. After besting IM Alex Barsov, I basically had a very easy time cruising through the field with an 8 ½ - 3 ½ start. A last-round draw with the strong Canadian IM Deen Hergott iced my first Canadian Open Championship.
He mentions national simul tours in 1975 and 1978.
I guess he didn't comment about his result in the 1971 CNE Open in Toronto.
"Chess Canada" (Oct. 1971) reported:
"In the fifth round Walter Browne-Leo Williams game - with a Pawn on the 6th rank headed for the queening square, Williams picked up a Queen from an adjacent board, and with a flourish place it down next to his board, Grandmaster Browne's response was to seize this piece and fling it diagonally over his shoulder. No injuries resulted - and Browne achieved his usual Toronto score: 3.5/6".
I guess he didn't comment about his result in the 1971 CNE Open in Toronto.
"Chess Canada" (Oct. 1971) reported:
"In the fifth round Walter Browne-Leo Williams game - with a Pawn on the 6th rank headed for the queening square, Williams picked up a Queen from an adjacent board, and with a flourish place it down next to his board, Grandmaster Browne's response was to seize this piece and fling it diagonally over his shoulder. No injuries resulted - and Browne achieved his usual Toronto score: 3.5/6".
I played in that event (organized by our own Vlad Dobrich!) and saw the whole thing...for an 18 year old...it was priceless :). I also remember seeing Laszlo Witt doing a post mortem with Jean Delva (I think it was at the same event...Hugh will be able to tell us if they played :)....and everyone was putting in their 2 cents worth...showing winning lines for Delva...and at some point Witt said...well....he is up a Queen ...why are you anaylzing this position :).
I liked Lazlo Witt...always straight up individual!
...I liked Lazlo Witt...always straight up individual!
Larry
Speaking of "straight up," I have never forgotten a comment he made to me after I lost a tournament game to him. I asked why he hadn't started an attack that would probably have crushed me? He said, "You had already played weakly, losing a Pawn early in the game. I had no reason to believe you would do better in the EG."
Not said with any sarcasm, simply stating a fact. The way he said it did not bother me, "just the facts, ma'am!" (to paraphrase "Dragnet!")
I guess he didn't comment about his result in the 1971 CNE Open in Toronto.
"Chess Canada" (Oct. 1971) reported:
"In the fifth round Walter Browne-Leo Williams game - with a Pawn on the 6th rank headed for the queening square, Williams picked up a Queen from an adjacent board, and with a flourish place it down next to his board, Grandmaster Browne's response was to seize this piece and fling it diagonally over his shoulder. No injuries resulted - and Browne achieved his usual Toronto score: 3.5/6".
That's just awesome , Browne sounds like an interesting individual .
Yes we will. Since it is published in Europe we have to wait until it crosses the pond to the North American distributor. It usually takes about 4 weeks. I will announce it here as soon as it comes in.
Andy Solitis writes at Susan Polgar's blog (the "shrink" line is priceless!):
Mr. Six-Time
Browne to be read
By ANDY SOLTIS
Last Updated: 10:48 PM, August 25, 2012
Posted: 10:39 PM, August 25, 2012
If there were a decathalon of table games, Walter Browne would take gold.
Browne — dubbed “Six-Time” because that’s how often he won the US chess championship — was also a consummate player of poker, Scrabble, backgammon — you name it.
In his entertaining book, “The Stress of Chess,” he describes growing up in New York in the 1960s, with rival multigame masters like Paul Magriel .
By age 14, his parents “were so concerned about my obsession for chess they sent me to see a ‘shrink,’ ” he writes. That lasted six sessions, until his parents realized the psychiatrist spent most of the time getting chess lessons.
On one occasion, Browne played chess and poker for 2 1/2 days straight, until he blundered away his queen in a chess game.
Bobby Fischer invited him to Grossinger’s, in the Catskills, to prepare for the 1972 world championship match — by playing pool and table tennis, as well as looking at chess.
He didn’t hear from Fischer again until 1981, when he turned up at Browne’s Berkeley, Calif., home. “We played a game of pool, but he never got a shot” as Browne ran the table from the break. The next day, Fischer spent “five or six hours” using Browne’s phone, and then left in a huff, never to contact Browne again, when his host objected.
According to Frank Brady's "Endgame" bio on Fischer, the four or five hours on the phone were actually long-distance - Back in the day when that could easily be 50 cents to a dollar per minute.
That's just awesome , Browne sounds like an interesting individual .
At times, too interesting! Once returning from a US Open in Seattle (1966?) he and I were passing through Canadian customs together. I went through with only a few light questions.
But Browne......LOL , when asked "What's your name?" He reflexively brought a finger to his temple and said ......Uhhhhh Browne!
Well, off he went under escort to an interview room, while I proceeded to a waiting lounge where I sat for about half an hour until he emerged. Instead of coming over to tell me what happened, he walked over to a young lady who was seated across a ways from me. After he sat next to her, there was a very brief conversation when she stood up abruptly and stalked off, seemingly in a huff.
Only then did Browne come over.
"What was that all about?" I asked.
Said Browne, "I said to her I'm Walter Browne, chess grandmaster - would you like to come to bed with me?"
"Does that work for you?" I asked.
"Sometimes." he said with a big grin.
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