Tom Brownscombe

Tom Brownscombe (born 1968) is a USCF rated chess master and poker player living in the United States. He holds the chess title of FIDE Master (FM).

Brownscombe was Scholastic Coordinator for the United States Chess Federation from 2000 to 2003. He was hired for that position after Beatriz Marinello resigned in 2000. In August, 2003 Beatriz Marinello was elected President of the USCF, and one of her very first acts as President was to fire Tom Brownscombe.

Brownscombe was so distraught at this that he immediately went to Los Angeles, California where, the following week, he won more than $70,000 in the Legends of Poker.

While working as scholastic coordinator for the USCF, Brownscombe made a controversial ruling that Rusudan Goletiani was prohibited from competing in the US Chess Championship, after Goletiani has arrived in the US in 2000 at age 19. Because of this ruling, Goletiani was not allowed to compete for the US Championship for four years until 2004, and when she was finally allowed to compete she promptly won the US Women's Championship.

In 2007, he moved to Kansas to head the Anatoly Karpov Chess School in Lindsborg. Shortly after moving there, he became the 2007 Kansas State Champion in the Kansas Open in Lindsborg.

In 2008 he was elected to the USCF Scholastic Council.

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