A Conversation with GM Walter Browne

[@MavoMovies52]

Thanks for posting this fantastic interview with my friend GM Walter Browne! I live in the Bay Area and Walter was a constant presence at many of our local tournaments. He was a great chess player and lived life at maximum speed & intensity! He is missed all over the chess world ... but especially here in the Bay Area. Rest in peace Mr Six-Time!

[@raysollarsthehappyjogger5907]

I just found this series of GM Seirawan videos. What a treasure of chess history. When I was 7, I learned to play chess when Tigran Petrosian was the current champion. RIP Walter Browne.

[@Randyrocker1]

RIP Walter Browne, now you'll be playing with all of your favorite Grandmasters including Paul Morphy, and all of the others throughout history.

[@Sarah-no7lv]

I cry when I watch this. RIP. True gentleman.

[@AlexSosaBolivia]

Walter Browne is a treasure! I just ordered his book and am looking forward to reading it. Thanks for posting.

[@michuk007]

He played dodgeball...this man is my hero. RIP Walt

[@NOTHGIF]

Yasser Seirawan made this a great video.

[@chessrookiesarea]

Rest in peace. I remember Walter very well from a German chess-TV series. I liked him a lot.

[@StopFear]

Hi, could you give the name of the show? I am learning German and I hope I can understand a little if some episodes are on KZbin. Thanks.

[@chessrookiesarea]

StopFear Hi, show was called 'Schach der Großmeister'.

[@bullwinkle5445]

I had the honor of having a cup of coffee with Walter once. He was really nice. I was in the Navy and in uniform at a tournament (under 1600) and he invited me to share his table when none were available.

[@Crazeyfor67]

Walter knew how to live life to it's fullest! His book is a great read. A world class poker and backgammon player too. Amazing man.

[@RemarMaxim]

What an incredible interview.

[@briddhiman1729]

What an amazing video!! I am unhappy to have not landed here much earlier.

[@hiitsmicha]

wonderful talk ... rip GM Browne

[@MrSupernova111]

Wonderful interview! Thanks!

[@mauriceamery4839]

wow - what a gr8 presentation! A lovely chat in a relaxed surrounding. Hosted wonderfully and charmingly by Yasser - finishing on a great reminiscence on Bobby ... :-} {Mentioned also by Lucas Andersen in his Life and Chess series}

[@branislavlazin9285]

I enjoyed this as much as... Bertnard Russell interview or such. Fascinating character... which transpired in his games, as is often the case. Yasser did a real solid to chess history in this one.

[@Pifischer]

Thanks to Yasser for giving us a taste of Walter's chess days. How about a book on Walter's 60 memorable games?

[@Crazeyfor67]

Check out his book The Stress of Chess and it's Infinite finesse. His favorite 101 games.

[@MrSupernova111]

@@Crazeyfor67 Thanks!

[@Mathview]

FANTASTIC!

[@barbfrmsf]

may he rest in peace

[@bigmac329190]

yasser is flaunting the bling in this video

[@michaelcohen2760]

I started attending NYU in the fall of 1966. Walter Browne was a fixture in the 4th floor game room in Loeb Student Center where he played poker with students from the Business School. The management was always against gambling, and the players were always finding ways to circumvent the rules including using matchsticks for chips andand then finally writing down the bets instead of using chips. The poker games were finally banned from the game room entirely. Walter at the time, had a youthful "cock of the walk" arrogant aditude and his heavy Brooklyn-Central Queens accent bespoke anything but chess mastery. He was easy to initially underestimate. I was a beginning player and played one game with him where he finally won in a king and pawn ending. I also have a story about playing with Paul Magriel in another student lounge at NYU where he was a graduate student in Mathematics

[@jansugalski546]

Seirawan loves to hear himself talk.

[@skakdosmer]

Yes he does!

[@styx85]

Maybe, but so does everyone else. So everybody wins.

[@MrSupernova111]

I like hearing him talk. In fact, as long as he's sharing historical chess stories I hope he talks as much as possible.

[@politichess6123]

RIP...

[@DucksDeLucks]

Browne was a character when he was young. I remember him on the stage with a tall can of beer in front of him, offering some to his opponent. His speech sounds slurred as if he had a stroke.

[@benjamingarrido5494]

Subtitulos por favor, subtitules pleace, I m no´t know english

[@MrSupernova111]

Six years later. Don't see no Spanish subtitles.

[@glebedigital4654]

RIP Walter :-((

[@StopFear]

Hope Mr.Browne will rest in peace in the hands of the Almighty God and get play chess with Angels and stuff.

[@MrSupernova111]

...and stuff.

[@rasmuspetersen5793]

He won’t since God is nothing but a fictional character along the lines of Harry Potter, Garfield and Donald Duck

[@henrikrulofs9636]

​@@rasmuspetersen5793Jesus Christ Himself will remind you of your most foolish and arrogant words the day you hit the ground. The door of hell is closed from inside...

[@131Djak]

RIP

[@BretLeduc]

Yep. Subtitles sure would be nice. 😂

[@gustavosilvacm8932]

English is not my mother language and I am astonished: I understand every word spoken by Yasser Seirawan and NONE uttered by Walter Browne. Why?

[@kevindubois5897]

Because he's dealing with throat cancer during this video.

[@skakdosmer]

He obviously can't close his palate seal, which greatly impedes his articulation. That has nothing to do with his throat. But perhaps he had cancer there too.

[@Ronbo710]

GM Browne and Stuart Smalley ?