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...
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1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores. After winning another qualifying match against Tigran...
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(e.g. after 2...Nf6 3.Bb2 c5 4.e3 Nc6 5.Bb5). Danish grandmaster (GM) Bent Larsen played 1.b3 frequently between 1968 and 1972, but the opening suffered...
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the results of his games were not included in his opponents' totals. Bent Larsen went on to win, with Korchnoi, Geller, Gligorić, and Portisch taking...
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Bent Larsen (born 31 August 1942) is a Danish rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild;...
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1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail...
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show Spassky at his heights. Bent Larsen vs. Boris Spassky, Belgrade 1970 (match USSR vs Rest of the World), Nimzo-Larsen Attack, Modern Variation (A01)...
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Jan Hein Donner, Bill Hartston, Werner Hug, Anatoly Karpov (winner), Bent Larsen, Tony Miles (runner-up) Helmut Pfleger, Lothar Schmid. Series Four (1978-79)...
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final match against Boris Spassky, after defeating Lajos Portisch and Bent Larsen in matches. Exempt from the 1967 Sousse Interzonal in Pahlavi Iran, he...
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Petrosian in 1966. In the 1969 cycle, he won matches against Efim Geller, Bent Larsen, and Viktor Korchnoi to win the right to challenge a second time, then...
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Bent Larsen (born July 13, 1954 in Aalborg, Denmark) is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He played his club handball...
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Year Player Country 1967 Bent Larsen Denmark 1968 Boris Spassky Soviet Union 1969 Boris Spassky Soviet Union 1970 Bobby Fischer United States 1971...
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the fifth game of the 1971 Candidates match between Bobby Fischer and Bent Larsen, the outside passed pawn on the a-file confers White a winning advantage...
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geographer Bent Hegna (born 1959), Norwegian politician Bent Larsen (1935–2010), Danish chess grandmaster Bent Mejding (born 1937), Danish actor Bent Melchior...
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solo fifth-place finish. The winner was Bent Larsen. Portisch then lost his first-round Candidates' match to Larsen at Porec 1968, by 4½–5½. He qualified...
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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...
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pieces which may together be of equal or greater value than the queen. Bent Larsen remarks that giving up the queen for a rook and two minor pieces is sometimes...
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1978-01 3 Viktor Korchnoi 2695 1979-01 4 Boris Spassky 2690 1971-07 5 Bent Larsen 2660 1971-07 Mikhail Tal 2660 1973-07 7 Lajos Portisch 2650 1973-07 8...
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Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Mikhail Botvinnik, Bent Larsen, Viktor Korchnoi and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt...
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grandmaster Bent Larsen writes that after 5.Nd5! "it's over, as detailed analysis reveals." Larry Evans, Svetozar Gligorić, Vlastimil Hort, Paul Keres, Bent Larsen...
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competition, although a number of top players, including Alexander Alekhine, Bent Larsen, Paul Morphy, Miguel Najdorf, and Hikaru Nakamura have used it with success...
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18½ points out of 23 games, 3½ points ahead of second-place finishers Bent Larsen, Efim Geller and Robert Hübner. Gustav Neumann won 34 of his games, also...
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Black can also fianchetto his bishop to g7, although this is uncommon. Bent Larsen tried this in a few games, including a draw against Mikhail Tal in 1969...
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–2018), Danish politician Art Larsen (1925–2012), American tennis player Bent Larsen (1935–2010), Danish chess player Blair Larsen (born 1969), New Zealand...
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computer to beat a grandmaster in a regular tournament game when it beat Bent Larsen in 1988, but was easily defeated in both games of a two-game match with...
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Fischer Havana Bent Larsen Winnipeg Bent Larsen Klaus Darga Venice Jan Hein Donner Moscow Leonid Stein Palma de Mallorca Bent Larsen Skopje Robert James...
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grandmaster tournaments, it has been played occasionally by players including Bent Larsen, Tony Miles, Teimour Radjabov, Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana,...
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1966 Copenhagen playoff match against Bent Larsen, the two players split eight games with two wins each, and Larsen won the first tiebreak game to secure...
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Jørgen E. Larsen (1945–2020), Danish football coach and player Jørgen Bent Larsen (1935–2010), Danish chess grandmaster and author This disambiguation...
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attraction for some players such as Pavel Blatny, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Bent Larsen. Benjamin & Schiller (1987) call it a "chameleon". According to ChessBase...
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