# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-byrne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:20:19.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-byrne"
name: "Robert Byrne"
slug: "robert-byrne"
description: "Robert Eugene Byrne was an American chess player and chess author who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). He won the U.S. Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974. Byrne represented the United States 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 on November 12, 2006. Byrne worked as a university professor for many years, before becoming a chess professional in the early 1970s."
tagline: "American chess player and writer (1928-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Byrne_1969.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1928-04-20"
deathDate: "2013-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump