A very elegant stunt he did was play simultaneously against 9 chess players, some of them at master level, and end up with a positive finish. The trick was that

A very elegant stunt he did was play simultaneously against 9 chess players, some of them at master level, and end up with a positive finish. The trick was that he paired eight players into four groups of two and simply reproduced the moves one made on the other member of the group. The eight masters were essentially playing against each other, with a neutral finish. The ninth player was the weakest one and Brown simply beat him normally.