To me it was a very surprising choice from Bents behalf ( but HE should know what he was taking about;). Perhaps he likes it due to its clarity,compared to his other masterpieces of more "caotic" nature. And perhaps first of all because it changed the theory of some main line in QG.Kasparov also uses it in his OMGP.

All of that, probably. But its not one in his grand hypermodern style such as the Larsen-Geller 1960. But the total geometry after ....Ba6 is wonderfully fasinating. Eye candy for chessplayers!

I certainly wish him all the best as his 75th approaches. I only wish I had brought the copy of Larsen's Best Games (which Fischer borrowed in 1971 and signed) to the simul in 1973 so I could have had it signed by him, also.

I again want to thank you for the information about Per Skjolager's upcoming book on Nimzowitsch. I exchanged some e-mails with him. He gave me some corrections for my Nimzo database, and gave me an unknown Nimzowitsch - Hakansson game and a cross-table I did not have. A perfect gentleman.

Larsen's writing and games have helped popularise: the 4...Nf6 5. Nxf6 gxf6 Caro-Kann; the 4...Bf5 Caro-Kann (where black castles short); the Old Indian; the Centre-Counter/Scandinavian;and the London System, as perennial favourites in Danish club chess.

I do want to see the special edition Skakbladet! I didn't mention the Old Indian and 'Larsen-Bronstein' CK but of course know of them. The list of Larsen's opening contributions is certainly longer than any other modern GM.

I just submitted it.

And let us not forget his 4.b4 in the reversed dutch.

Oops, it's Larsen vs Gligoric, 1971. Chessbase has 1970 (which is correct), cg has 1971.

Heh. :D

To my surprise a chessplayer with rating
1600 and a Name BENT LARSEN! accepting
games with me?!
Since I was not believing it was the real Bent Larsen;Therefor during the game I was making some question to find out if he was the real Bent Larsen.
All our conversation was in english.
I remember that I play to wind, and I was also making specific questions about Buenos Aieres, where I have been
several times with CargoShips for loading Grains to Europe: He told me he live in Buenos Aieres!
In the center of B.A. I ask him about
a well known Chess Cafe, but he did not
come there.
We was still playing chess when I still
doing questions in english.
Sudentlig "the 1600 rating" Bent Larsen
ask me about the health of a well knowing chessplayer in my city AArhus! From that time, the conversation was
in danish.
I think we played about 6-7 blitzchess-games! Bent Larsen told me that we should have had more time to talk together! In the end he said: OKAY WE TAKE THE
LAST GAME"!! YES AND THANKS FOR ALL
THE GAMES WITH YOU BENT LARSEN!
The very last game was total impossiple
for me to find moves against this: "LARSEN "COMPLETE-ATTACK" ENDNU ENGANG TILLYKKE MED DE 75 ÅR

Happy 75th, Bent!

I'm still hoping for <ZOOM 002>

happy birthday Bent Larsen!

That book (at least I think it's the same book) was also published in Spanish some years ago, as "Todas las Piezas Atacan (Vol. 1)". It seems strange that it has come out in so many other languages before English. If anyone knows of a place you can get the Spanish book in the USA, I'd love to hear about it.

(Source: King's Gambit - A Son, A father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman)