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than other contemporary masters. He was also content to be described as an aggressive player, stemming from his dislike of draws. He disputed the notion that he would willingly accept dubious positions in order to complicate tactics, a characteristic he attributed more to Tal. The book was first published in
Denmark; an English-language version followed in 1970 and was sub-titled "Master of Counter-Attack".
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wrote that Larsen "is a firm believer in the value of surprise", and that led him to resort to "dubious variations in various openings." He also wrote that while Larsen "has a great deal of confidence in his game and fears no one", his style was "extremely effective against relatively weak opponents
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Starting in the mid-1960s, Larsen enjoyed a very successful run in major tournaments around the world, and he and
Fischer became the two strongest players outside the Soviet Union. Larsen played in a lot of strong events, at least as many as any other top player, and repeatedly finished ahead of the
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contained annotations that delved into chess psychology and the effective use of rare openings. A chapter of the book gives some of Larsen's thoughts on his own style, and he upholds the views of
Polugaevsky and GligoriÄ that he indulged in flank attacks and favored the advance of rooks' pawns more
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Larsen later claimed that his one-sided loss to
Fischer was due in part to his condition during the match: "The organizers chose the wrong time for this match. I was languid with the heat and Fischer was better prepared for such exceptional circumstances... I saw chess pieces through a mist and,
260:, but he never graduated, choosing instead to play chess professionally. Furthermore, while at military service, he studied Russian, which was instrumental in assisting him to understand Russian-language chess literature (something Bobby Fischer was also known to have done). He became an
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by 5½â2½ but lost a hard-fought semifinal, also at Bled by 4½â5½ to former World
Champion Mikhail Tal, who won the tenth game with a complex speculative knight sacrifice in the center. Larsen won a playoff match for alternates, an eventual third-place Candidates' position, against
1015:(1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5) was another opening that became a frequent choice of Larsen with the Black pieces, and similarly he placed considerable reliance on GrĂźnfeld-Indian systems as White. This led him to co-author, with Steffen Zeuthen, a 1979 book on this opening titled
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play, always on first board, and compiled an aggregate score of 75/109 (+61 −20 =28), for 68.8%. He always played a very high number of games and in 1954 played a maximum of 19 games. He won three board medals, one gold and two bronze.
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Despite his advancing age, Larsen continued to play in tournaments. In 1999. he finished 7th out of 10 in the Danish
Championship, but in the 2000 event he was forced to withdraw when he became seriously ill with an
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Somewhat unusually for the late 1960s, Larsenâas one of the world's top playersâoften entered large Open tournaments run on the Swiss system, and had plenty of success. He won the
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GligoriÄ launches a dangerous-looking attack, but Larsen finds an inspired defence. Larsen had a strong head-to-head dominance over the top
Yugoslav player of that era.
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Larsen's final tournament was
Magistral Internacional Ruibal 2008 in Buenos Aires. He delivered a poor performance and lost all nine games he played. In the April 2009
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in 1956 with his gold-medal performance on board one at the Moscow
Olympiad, where he drew with World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. He tied for 1stâ2nd places at
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1958. Larsen could score only 8½/20 for 16th place, and was not close to qualifying. But he scored his first major individual international success by winning
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Fischer withdrew; this placed him 1½ points ahead of the field. He then won his first-round match against
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winning. In 1976 he won the Biel Interzonal, but lost his 1977 Candidates' match, a rematch of their 1968 encounter, to Lajos Portisch by 3½â6½ at
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on four occasions, reaching the semifinal three times. He had multiple wins over all seven World Champions who held the title from 1948 to 1985:
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1973 with 12½/15, ahead of LjubojeviÄ and Kavalek. In 1975, Larsen defeated Danish Champion and future International Master Gert Iskov at
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at the start of 1971, equal third in the world (with Korchnoi, behind Fischer and Spassky) with a rating of 2660. He then defeated
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1.e4 d5 to defeat World Champion Anatoly Karpov in 1979, sparking renewed interest in that variation. A favourite line in the
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which required brain surgery. Thereafter he only played a few tournaments in Buenos Aires. He was 4th in the 2002
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Newsletter, "His health had been poor for some considerable time and he had been virtually inactive for years".
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1966 (the first time a Soviet grandmaster had ever been beaten by a non-Soviet in a match). In 1967 he won the
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Fischer has a promising position but miscalculates and is punished in drastic style by Larsen's counterattack.
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Bent Larsen vs Tigran Petrosian, Santa Monica 1966, Sicilian Defence, Accelerated Dragon Variation (B39), 1â0
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Mikhail Tal vs Bent Larsen, Eersel 1969, match game 6, Sicilian Defence, RichterâRauzer Variation (B65), 0â1
929:(1.f4) with any regularity, and had a long-term association with the move 1.b3, a system commonly known as
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with success at a time when the opening was rarely seen at the top level. He revived the almost dormant
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Zonal 1960 with 5½/9, and did not advance to the Interzonal. He recovered by sharing 1stâ2nd places at
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1970, he played first board for the World side, ahead of Fischer, and scored 2½/4 against Spassky and
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in 1955 by 4½â3½. He took first prize at the GijĂłn International Chess Tournament in 1956, ahead of
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and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-
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1964 on 9½/15; Keres and Nei won. Larsen's unusual openings were on full display at the 1964
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and avoiding the gambitâ"stronger was c5, winning a pawn!" He also wrote the well-received
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Championship, becoming the first Grandmaster and, at the time, the player with the highest
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1288:"Foreword and Afterword for the Soviet Edition of Bobby Fischer's "My 60 Memorable Games""
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Larsen was dangerous with the Black pieces, and here he shows a former World Champion why.
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1781:. Ed.: Jan Løfberg & Erik AndrÊ Andersen. København, Løfbergs Forlag, 2014.
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1957, he scored 7½/14 for a shared 3rdâ4th place; the winners were GligoriÄ and
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at the age of 19 in 1954, from his bronze-medal performance on board one at the
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1966, he placed third with 10/18, behind Spassky and Fischer. He won at
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1967 with 6/9, along with Darga, ahead of Spassky and Keres. He won at
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1228:"Fascination with Bobby Fischer shows no sign of reaching its endgame"
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Larsen beats a future World Champion using Larsen's favourite opening.
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Viswanathan Anand vs Bent Larsen, Roquebrune 1992, Sicilian (B27), 0â1
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1970, he shared 3rdâ4th places with 5½/12, (Spassky won). He defeated
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1967 with 13/17, ahead of Smyslov, Botvinnik, Portisch, GligoriÄ, and
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1726:"Analyze this Smith-Morra Game! - GM Yasser Seirawan â 2014.09.23"
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219:-born wife. He suffered from diabetes, and he died in 2010 from a
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1672:, by Bent Larsen, 2003, Hardinge Simpole Publishing, pp. 173â175.
377:. But Larsen placed only 4th in a middle-range field at the 1960
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Larsen unleashes a queen sacrifice to defeat the World Champion.
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Interzonal, where he shared the 1stâ4th places on 17/23 with
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Bent Larsen's Best Games: Fighting Chess with the Great Dane
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He died in Buenos Aires in September 2010. According to the
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Bent Larsen's Best Games of Chess: Master of Counter Attack
1196:, by Bent Larsen, London 1970, G. Bell and Sons Ltd, p. 1)
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From the early 1970s onward, he divided his years between
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Zakharov (Spektrowski), Alexey 'Spectre' (3 March 2019).
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1972, he shared 2ndâ3rd places on 11/15 (Portisch won).
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1147:. Larsen and Euwe met over the board only once, at the
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but has not been too successful against top-notchers."
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1967 with 15/19, ahead of a strong group that included
1631:. Englishchess.org.uk. 14 October 2011. Archived from
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1972 with 11/15, ahead of LjubojeviÄ and Portisch. At
1262:"Lies And Truths About Bobby Fischer: Take The Test!"
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Zoom 001 Zero Hour for Operative Chess Opening Models
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were joint winners). Larsen shared 8thâ9th places at
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in 1969 in a match in which every game was decisive.
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1967, he shared 3rdâ4th with 6/9, behind Fischer and
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1584:"19th Chess Olympiad, Siegen 1970, information"
1561:"18th Chess Olympiad, Lugano 1968, information"
1538:"17th Chess Olympiad, Havana 1966, information"
1515:"13th Chess Olympiad, Munich 1958, information"
1492:"12th Chess Olympiad, Moscow 1956, information"
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138:(4 March 1935 â 9 September 2010) was a Danish
16:Danish chess grandmaster and author (1935â2010)
1660:, New York 1976, Arco Publishing, pp. 259â260.
639:1968 with 9½/13, ahead of Botvinnik, Smyslov,
581:1967, he was 4th with 8½/15 (Spassky won). At
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1314:"Revealed: why Bobby Fischer learned Russian"
453:In the 1965 Candidates' matches, he defeated
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1207:"Bent Larsen, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 75"
776:by the score of 5½â½ and lost a match to GM
505:1971. But then he lost the semifinal 0â6 at
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1389:The GijĂłn International Chess Tournaments
1338:Bartelski, Wojciech (25 September 1954).
978:Larsen's Selected Games of Chess, 1948â69
768:Championship with 8½/10. He won again at
513:thus, my level of playing was not good."
19:For other people with the same name, see
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933:or the NimzoâLarsen Attack in his (and
365:. He tied 5thâ6th in a strong field at
569:, Smyslov, Polugaevsky, GligoriÄ, and
516:In 1973 he failed to advance from the
1416:. Chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk. Archived from
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655:1968 with 13/17, along with Spassky;
413:Larsen vs. Portisch (Interzonal 1964)
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1822:Bent Larsen: Alle Figuren greifen an
1439:"En Passant: Bent Larsen, 1935â2010"
1386:Mendez, Pedro; Mendez, Luis (2019).
988:. He edited the tournament book for
878:list, he had an Elo rating of 2415.
822:, board one, 11/18 (+9 −5 =4);
792:He represented Denmark six times in
577:1967 with 5½/8, behind GligoriÄ. At
434:won). He tied for 5thâ7th places at
1629:"ECF September/October Chess Moves"
1607:"Chess legend Bent Larsen turns 75"
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1260:LeitĂŁo, Rafael (20 August 2017).
610:Canadian Open Chess Championships
544:Spassky vs. Larsen (Leiden, 1970)
236:Larsen was born in Tilsted, near
2096:People from Thisted Municipality
1682:Larsen, Bent (10 January 2015).
1367:. ChessManiac. 11 September 2010
1226:Barden, Leonard (4 March 2011).
1194:Larsen's Selected Games of Chess
422:Zonal with 13/19, behind winner
240:in Denmark, and was educated at
1441:. Chessclub.com. Archived from
1392:. McFarland. pp. 174â176.
1312:(ChessVibes) (31 August 2011).
405:Challenging for the World title
252:(placing fifth) and in 1953 at
713:in a 1970 exhibition match at
573:. He shared 2ndâ3rd places at
549:top Soviet players. He won at
536:Tournament dominance (1965â73)
330:1958 to qualify for his first
287:, and in the same year won at
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2065:Category:Danish chess players
951:Why Not The Philidor Defense?
489:In 1970 he shared 2nd in the
1867:Chess Great Bent Larsen Dies
1847:player profile and games at
1688:. New In Chess. p. 24.
1151:; the game ended in a draw;
1134:, the Bent Larsen games file
889:Playing style and authorship
752:1972â73 on 11½/15, ahead of
622:U.S. Open Chess Championship
450:, advancing as a Candidate.
1779:Larsen. 1935â1965. (Bind I)
721:1970 with 10½/15, ahead of
601:. He was awarded the first
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2106:Chess Olympiad competitors
2060:List of chess grandmasters
1605:ChessBase (3 March 2010).
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843:In 1988 he lost a game to
342:1958 with 12/15, ahead of
275:in an exhibition match at
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1132:http://www.chessgames.com
937:'s) honor. He played the
780:by the score of 5½â2½ at
725:, Hort, and GligoriÄ. At
695:USSR vs Rest of the World
553:1966 with 9/11, ahead of
301:International Grandmaster
246:World Junior Championship
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2046:Jesper Søndergaard Thybo
1751:"ZOOM 001 SUBMODELS A-H"
986:How to Open a Chess Game
899:to describe chess moves.
883:English Chess Federation
859:in Copenhagen by 2½â1½.
242:Aalborg Cathedral School
174:World Chess Championship
21:Bent Larsen (handballer)
1858:Bent Larsen (1935â2010)
1414:"Elo ratings 1970â1997"
1149:Munich Olympiad in 1958
921:Larsen vs Karpov (1980)
589:. He shared 1stâ2nd at
157:until the emergence of
1824:, SchachDepot Verlag,
1176:"Bent Larsen obituary"
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164:Larsen was a six-time
1820:Larsen, Bent (2009),
1798:My Great Predecessors
1582:Bartelski, Wojciech.
1559:Bartelski, Wojciech.
1536:Bartelski, Wojciech.
1513:Bartelski, Wojciech.
1490:Bartelski, Wojciech.
1467:Bartelski, Wojciech.
1174:(17 September 2010).
1111:(20 September 2010).
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788:Olympiad performances
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307:1956â57 on 6½/9 with
2121:Danish chess writers
2111:Danish chess players
2027:Allan Stig Rasmussen
2005:Bjorn Moller Ochsner
1215:. 11 September 2010.
963:Scandinavian Defence
871:Memorial knock-out.
677:International Master
262:International Master
221:cerebral haemorrhage
149:player, behind only
25:Bent Larsen (rowing)
2116:Danish male writers
2017:Peter Heine Nielsen
1922:of Grandmaster (GM)
1420:on 26 November 2009
976:Larsen's 1969 book
731:Ljubomir LjubojeviÄ
2101:Chess Grandmasters
1914:Chess players for
1654:Great Chess Upsets
1445:on 8 December 2011
1212:The New York Times
1153:Larsen versus Euwe
998:Smith-Morra Gambit
959:Alekhine's Defence
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897:algebraic notation
895:This section uses
849:Software Toolworks
717:by 6â2. He won at
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266:Amsterdam Olympiad
136:Jørgen Bent Larsen
55:Jørgen Bent Larsen
46:Bent Larsen (1961)
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1942:Jonas Buhl Bjerre
1831:978-3-9812856-0-4
1695:978-90-5691-530-8
1399:978-1-4766-7659-3
967:CaroâKann Defence
727:Palma de Mallorca
680:Heikki Westerinen
665:Palma de Mallorca
653:Palma de Mallorca
595:Palma de Mallorca
495:Elo rating system
491:Palma de Mallorca
309:Svetozar GligoriÄ
299:Larsen became an
295:Young Grandmaster
258:civil engineering
178:Mikhail Botvinnik
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126:Peak ranking
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911:Samuel Reshevsky
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647:, Portisch, and
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395:Tigran Petrosian
344:William Lombardy
317:Samuel Reshevsky
273:FriĂ°rik Ălafsson
271:Larsen defeated
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1730:YouTube.com
1609:. ChessBase
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1471:. OlimpBase
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832:Siegen 1970
826:Lugano 1968
820:Havana 1966
814:Munich 1958
808:Moscow 1956
735:San Antonio
637:Monte Carlo
624:of 1968 at
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587:Efim Geller
583:Monte Carlo
464:Efim Geller
446:, Tal, and
379:Berg en Dal
352:Oscar Panno
281:Klaus Darga
217:Argentinian
186:Mikhail Tal
155:Scandinavia
143:grandmaster
109:Grandmaster
100:, Argentina
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2080:Categories
2058:See also:
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1920:FIDE title
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289:Copenhagen
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857:Deep Blue
782:Stockholm
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