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CHESS PLAYERS from Australia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 52nd most number of Chess Players behind Peru and Japan.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Australian Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Walter Browne (1949 - 2015)

With an HPI of 37.68, Walter Browne is the most famous Australian Chess Player.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian-born American chess and poker player. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1970, he won the U.S. Chess Championship six times.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as chess players born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased chess players include Walter Browne.

Deceased Chess Players

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