Great Players of the Past: Bent Larsen
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- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2022
- Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... "Jørgen Bent Larsen (March 4th, 1935 - September 9th, 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 Bobby Fischer, for much of the 1960s and 1970s.[1] He is considered to be the strongest player born in Denmark and the strongest from Scandinavia until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen"
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This lecture was recorded on March 14th, 2022, in Roswell, Georgia.
Game 1: Tigran Petrosian vs. Bent Larsen, 2nd Piatigorsky Cup, 1966 07:33
Game 2: Anatoly Karpov vs. Bent Larsen, Montreal 1979
13:37
Game 3: Svetozar Gligorić vs. Bent Larsen, Capablanca Memorial, 1967
28:22
Game 4: Bent Larsen vs. Tigran Petrosian, 2nd Piatigorsky Cup, 1966
34:25
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Larsen had no choice but to play offbeat, crazy chess. You can't play straight-ahead, solid chess with a name like Bent.
His gameplay was bent since that was his name it was his destiny.
Nominative determinism.
"Hi everybody, I'm GM Ben Finegold and you're probably not. Although I do like to watch the videos afterwards so I could be me"
This intro should be written in history books
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Being Danish myself, Larsen was of course my hero. Not only because he was a great player, but also because he wrote great books. Luckily for me (but unfortunately for you guys) he wrote them in Danish.
I played him four times in simuls. Three losses, but the last one I drew. And that didn't suit him! Even in simuls he was ambitious!
He wrote a little book about chess openings, which of course I have. And browsing through the book I came across a variation in the Sicilian Dragon called the Löwenfish, in which white, according to Larsen, has won many blitz victories. The variation goes 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.f4 Bg7 7.e5 dxe5 8.fxe5 Ng4 9.Bb5+, and that is as far as the variation goes in Larsen's book.
I didn't analyse it, I just made a mental note of it in case the chance should ever come to play it.
Well, some years later in a game against a slightly higher rated player (I was about 1750, he was about 1850). I played the moves, and then he played 9..Kf8, and I thought "was it that simple?" I thought I must have made a mistake, because my central pawn is just weak, and apparently the white attack has fizzled out. But this was just another example of Larsen's mastery: He allowed the reader to find the winning move himself! Thank you for that, Bent!
The answer after ...Kf8 would be Ne6... not an easy move to find at the board!
If there’s one thing I will never forget about the history of chess, it’s that “in the Rest of the World Match against the USSR in 70 and/or 71, Larsen said ‘I’m better than Fischer! I’m board 1! Rawr!’ and Fischer said ‘ok 🤷♂️’”
I love Finegold's lectures. He never makes it boring.
Thanks Ben, great lecture - AGAIN! I only knew Larsen's name for his 6-0 loss against Fischer in the candidates knockout. Now I know much more! Every great chess player deserves to be memorized for his greatest games, not for his worst loss. So you have done justice to Bent Larsen, and it was very entertaining!
I spilled my drink at 33:30 realizing how amazing the combination was.
Cinco de Mayo is next. Hope you can make a video about Carlos Torre Repetto, the greatest mexican chess player
I hope GM Ben Finegold says “Hola” to this idea
Always repetto
Thank you for the lecture.
I love Bent Larsen! When I first began to study chess two years ago, his strange style of play enthralled me. Now I’ve climbed up a ways in rating, and the Larsen opening is a regular part of my repertoire. Super happy to see him covered in depth!
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I love your videos alot man my rating went up from 1100 to 1980 in blitz since i started watching your videos 1 years ago.
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The Find the Plan section of his Good Move Guide book is one of my favorite parts of a chess book. Helped me make a major breakthrough in my understanding when I was a beginner. It gave me a practical framework for thinking about the middle game.
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"they had to call an ambulance, but not for larsen"
Awesome Ben thanks for a great compilatiin of the great man Bent Larsen.
yay! A new lecture (my favorite of Ben's content)
Great lecture :) loved the last game!
Thanks Ben, I love the "Great Players" series.
Finally you did it, AWESOME
This was great! Thanks.
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The two Petrosian games came when Tigran was world champion, at the height of his powers. Both wins from the same tournament. And both involving Q sacs! (although in the first, TP resigned before the sac was made, but because of it). When has that ever happened to a reigning World Champ?
25:25 the little grin at the end 🤣🤣🤣
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Fun fact - the second Larsen - Petrosian game in the video is used as a reference in Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows movie
One of the first chess books I got was opening play by Bent Larsen. A book I learned a lot from. Larsen said in an interview that he thought that he could beat any player but Karpov and Kasparov had a group of people to help them prepare that made it a bit difficult to beat them but he did not consider Karpov and Kasparov better than him.
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When Larsen beated Karpov he was probably thinking: " - Holy Cremoly, I killed Anatoly!"
The other day I asked who was the best chess coach to get.
Everybody told me to get Bent.
Yes! Finally! The Great Dane.
Ben knows because he is the one who writes the articles so he makes the better players longer
Hoorah! Ben saved me from my boredom
This is a great presentation. Is it just me or does Ben’s new microphone sort of make his voice sound a little distorted? It sounds like it’s coming from a radio transmission or something.
I guess turning down the gain a bit would do the trick.
I think it's an echo
When are you going to do "Great Players of the Future"?
Nice shirt!
I don't mean to nitpick, but there were ten players in a double round robin at Montreal 1979. Karpov/ Tal won with 12/18.
Qxe3! Qxe3! Oh wait, Ben can't hear me...
poor petrosian :( double feature of him getting smacked down
his role as someone who trashes lower rated players but generally struggles against those his own or above rated reminds me of your characterisation of bassem amin
Is there no Petrosian great players of the past?! please address immediately
Larsen played like Larson, also in the same way Tal, Fischer, Keres, Spassky, etc. ... Today the magic has gone, most of the top-players play like computers. That is the way it goes, not possible to turn back time.
We still have Dubov, Rapport and Simon Williams aka Psycho-Cowboy.
Go Ben(t)!
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Good to see r/anarchychess memes on Ben lectures
42:40 LOL
38:07 How to defend Bxc5 followed by Nf6+?
Analyzing with Stockfish, you are up a queen, but black has equal material, you have no attack and your king is really bad, because the queen diagonal is weakened. Black will just chop off all your pawns and you'll enter a worse endgame
I think after Bxc5 black would play Bxd5
@@jamalempfehlung9841 Bxd5 is a blunder
White can just take with the rook and the pawn that captures the bishop will be pinned to the queen
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7:07 xDD
bent larsen peak fide rating: 2660 (January 1971)
... which put him fourth in the world, behind only Fischer, Spassky and Korchnoi. 2660 was a super-GM rating in the early 1970s. Remember that ratings aren't a measure of strength -- just a measure of performance within a pool of players. You can't directly compare Larsen's 1971 rating with the rating of soembody today, because they're not playing in the same pool of players.
Miguel Najdorf being in Argentina was a bit more fortuitous due to how bad being in Poland as a Jew during the 1940s was.
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7:10
The losses to Fisher were very traumatic since he failed to win a single game.
Larsen blamed it on his poor physical shape in the heat. I don't believe he'd have won the match, but I do believe he wouldn't have been rolled if he was healthy.
Interesting that Larsen had health issues because he was an extremely tall and broad fellow. Movie-star handsome, I would also say.
His name was Jørgen Bent Larsen, he just didn't use the name Jørgen.
But his name is easy to pronounce!
Ok deh
I played f3 🤦🏻♂️
You dare slander the Scandinavian so!
Good jokes! LOL!
haha, " this is the real petrosian, not the fake one"
Honestly of your reading far far in the future . What fucking PlayStation do you play on. Are PlayStations even around still
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