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...

1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores. After winning another qualifying match against Tigran...

(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...

Jan Hein Donner, Bill Hartston, Werner Hug, Anatoly Karpov (winner), Bent Larsen, Tony Miles (runner-up) Helmut Pfleger, Lothar Schmid. Series Four (1978-79)...

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...

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;...

1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail...

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...

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...

final match against Boris Spassky, after defeating Lajos Portisch and Bent Larsen in matches. Exempt from the 1967 Sousse Interzonal in Pahlavi Iran, he...

Year Player Country 1967 Bent Larsen  Denmark 1968 Boris Spassky  Soviet Union 1969 Boris Spassky  Soviet Union 1970 Bobby Fischer  United States 1971...

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)...

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...

18½ points out of 23 games, 3½ points ahead of second-place finishers Bent Larsen, Efim Geller and Robert Hübner. Gustav Neumann won all 34 of his games...

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...

geographer Bent Hegna (born 1959), Norwegian politician Bent Larsen (1935–2010), Danish chess grandmaster Bent Mejding (born 1937), Danish actor Bent Melchior...

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...

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...

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...

Dublin in March 2011. In 2003, Strong formed The Bone Yard Boys with Bent Larsen Petersen, a partnership that endures to the present day. The Bone Yard...

Botvinnik, Petrosian, Tal, Spassky, Reshevsky, Svetozar Gligorić and Bent Larsen the greatest chess players in history. In 1974, popular chess author...

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...

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...

Mallorca, which he won convincingly. Fischer then crushed Mark Taimanov, Bent Larsen (both 6–0) and Tigran Petrosian in the 1971 Candidates Tournament and...

competition, although a number of top players, including Alexander Alekhine, Bent Larsen, Paul Morphy, Miguel Najdorf, and Hikaru Nakamura have used it with success...

–2018), Danish politician Art Larsen (1925–2012), American tennis player Bent Larsen (1935–2010), Danish chess player Blair Larsen (born 1969), New Zealand...

Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Mikhail Botvinnik, Bent Larsen, Viktor Korchnoi and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt...

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...

grandmaster tournaments, it has been played occasionally by players including Bent Larsen, Tony Miles, Teimour Radjabov, Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana,...

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...