Bent Larsen
Danish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935–9 September 2010) was a Danish chess Grandmaster. He was a six-time Danish champion, and a candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions: 1965, 1968, 1971, and 1977. He won three Interzonal tournaments: Amsterdam 1964, Sousse 1967, and Biel 1976. Larsen won several dozen major international tournaments during his career, and was awarded the first Chess Oscar in 1967. At his best he was rated (FIDE rating list) fourth in the world.
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Bent Larsen | |
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Full name | Jørgen Bent Larsen |
Country | Denmark |
Born | (1935-03-04)March 4, 1935 Tilsted near Thisted, Denmark |
Died | September 9, 2010(2010-09-09) (aged 75) Buenos Aires |
Title | Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2415 (January 2009) |
Peak rating | 2660 (January 1971) |
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Larsen was the strongest chess player born in Denmark, and the strongest Scandinavian until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen.[1][2] From the early 1970s, he lived for part of the year in Las Palmas, and in Buenos Aires, with his Argentinian-born wife.