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Saturday, September 11, 2010

The Legendary Chess Grandmaster Bent Larsen Passed Away At The Age Of 75

Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess Grandmaster. He has been 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.Larsen is considered to be the strongest chess player ever born in Denmark, and strongest in Scandinavia at least until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen. Since the early 1970s, he lived for part of the year in Las Palmas and in Buenos Aires, with his Argentinian-born wife...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Larsen)
In the diagram on the right White (GM.Larsen) wins brilliantly.How ?
I want to extend my sympathy and condolences to GM.Larsen's family ,fans and admirers and all the chess community all over the world. 

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