For other people with the same name, see Bent Larsen (handballer) and Bent Larsen (rowing).
Bent Larsen
Bent Larsen (1961)
Full name
Jørgen Bent Larsen
Country
Denmark
Born
(1935-03-04)4 March 1935 Thisted, Denmark
Died
9 September 2010(2010-09-09) (aged 75) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Title
Grandmaster (1956)
Peak rating
2660 (July 1971)
Peak ranking
No. 4 (July 1971)
Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-Soviet player, behind only Bobby Fischer, for much of the 1960s and 1970s.[1] He is considered to be the strongest player born in Denmark and the strongest from Scandinavia until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen.
Larsen was a six-time Danish Champion and a Candidate for the World Chess Championship 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: Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and Anatoly Karpov,[2] but lifetime negative scores against them.[3]
From the early 1970s onward, he divided his years between Las Palmas and Buenos Aires[1] with his Argentinian-born wife. He suffered from diabetes, and he died in 2010 from a cerebral haemorrhage.[4]
^ abSpeelman, Jon (20 September 2010). "Bent Larsen: Chess player who with Bobby Fischer was one of only two players the Soviets feared in the 1960s and '70s". The Independent. London.
^http://www.chessgames.com, the Bent Larsen games file
^On a percentage basis, his best score against a World Champion was with Max Euwe. Larsen and Euwe met over the board only once, at the Munich Olympiad in 1958; the game ended in a draw; Larsen versus Euwe, Chessgames.com
^Barden, Leonard (17 September 2010). "Bent Larsen obituary". The Guardian. London.
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1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including Max Euwe, BentLarsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail...
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show Spassky at his heights. BentLarsen vs. Boris Spassky, Belgrade 1970 (match USSR vs Rest of the World), Nimzo-Larsen Attack, Modern Variation (A01)...
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the fifth game of the 1971 Candidates match between Bobby Fischer and BentLarsen, the outside passed pawn on the a-file confers White a winning advantage...
solo fifth-place finish. The winner was BentLarsen. Portisch then lost his first-round Candidates' match to Larsen at Porec 1968, by 4½–5½. He qualified...
champion Petrosian for the title. Larsen and Geller played a third place playoff in Copenhagen, Denmark in March 1966. Larsen won 5–4. The match was played...
geographer Bent Hegna (born 1959), Norwegian politician BentLarsen (1935–2010), Danish chess grandmaster Bent Mejding (born 1937), Danish actor Bent Melchior...
pieces which may together be of equal or greater value than the queen. BentLarsen remarks that giving up the queen for a rook and two minor pieces is sometimes...
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18½ points out of 23 games, 3½ points ahead of second-place finishers BentLarsen, Efim Geller and Robert Hübner. Gustav Neumann won all 34 of his games...
competition, although a number of top players, including Alexander Alekhine, BentLarsen, Paul Morphy, Miguel Najdorf, and Hikaru Nakamura have used it with success...
Dublin in March 2011. In 2003, Strong formed The Bone Yard Boys with BentLarsen Petersen, a partnership that endures to the present day. The Bone Yard...
grandmaster BentLarsen writes that after 5.Nd5! "it's over, as detailed analysis reveals." Larry Evans, Svetozar Gligorić, Vlastimil Hort, Paul Keres, Bent Larsen...
Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Mikhail Botvinnik, BentLarsen, Viktor Korchnoi and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt...
grandmaster tournaments, it has been played occasionally by players including BentLarsen, Tony Miles, Teimour Radjabov, Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana,...
1966 Copenhagen playoff match against BentLarsen, the two players split eight games with two wins each, and Larsen won the first tiebreak game to secure...
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