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Robert Eugene Byrne (born April 20, 1928, New York City) is a leading American chess player, a Grandmaster, and a chess author. He won the U.S. Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974. Byrne represented the United States a total of nine times in Chess Olympiads from 1952 to 1976, and won seven medals. He was the chess columnist from 1972 to 2006 for the New York Times , which ran his final column (a recounting of his 1952 victory over David Bronstein) on November 12, 2006.[1]
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