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Bent Larsen

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Also known as Jørgen Bent Larsen

Danish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010)

Person · Open Library

Born
1935
Works
10

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  • How to Open a Chess Game
  • San Antonio--'72: Church's Fried Chicken, inc., First International Chess Tournament
  • Bent Larsen
  • Bent Larsens Best Games of Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)
  • Hvad skal sort spille?

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Type
Person
Country
DK

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Total plays
133

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Key facts

Born
Jørgen Bent Larsen , ( 1935-03-04 ) 4 March 1935, Thisted , Denmark
Died
9 September 2010 (2010-09-09) (aged 75), Buenos Aires , Argentina
Country
Denmark
Title
Grandmaster (1956)
Peak rating
2660 (July 1971)
Peak ranking
No. 4 (July 1971)

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Encyclopedic overview

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. 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, but lifetime negative scores against them.

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