| Jun-03-07 | | Kangaroo: It was <NOT> Bent Larsen! He was only <4 years old> then. |
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Jun-04-07
 | | Phony Benoni: Just the fact that Bent Larsen was only four years old doesn't mean he couldn't have played this game. However, the fact that White was playing for Norway, not Denmark, does make a difference. It turns out to have been Ake Larsen. |
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| Jun-05-07 | | vonKrolock: Some sources gives (erroneously?!) that the Larsen playing in the 1939 Ol was Ojvind Larsen, others are spelling ARNE Larsen, while the Games from the Buenos Aires 1939 Women-Ol are, of course, by Ingrid Larsen |
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Jun-05-07
| | Phony Benoni: <vonKrolock> I may have been guilty of relying on the chessgames.com database a bit too much here. According to Olimpbase, Ojvind Larsen played for Denmark. The game on this page was from the match between Norway and Ireland. Olimpbase gives the name of the player as simply "A. Larsen". Yanofsky, in his autobiographical "Chess the Hard Way", gives a game against "A. Larsen" in Canada's match against Norway. The Larsen--Yanofsky game is in the cg database, credited to Ake Larsen. However, this person is also credited with several correspondence games from around 1990, so it's quite unlikely (but not impossible) that he also played in the 1939 Olympiad. If you have found a source which indicates that the player from Norway was <Arne> Larsen, that's probably more likely to be correct. |
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| Jun-05-07 | | vonKrolock: <Phony Benoni> I'm seeing right now in "12 Sakkolimpia", a book from 1958 by Árpád Földeák, that Denmark and Norway had each one their own Larsen in Buenos Aires 1939, but nothing about first names (hence the confusion started in 'off line' sources - the Danes played in final 'A', but Larsen - the reserve - played only four games at all (+1=1-2). the Norse played in Final 'B', and their second board Larsen scored +8=1-6 playing in all rounds - it is possible to deduce that there was a match Ireland vs Denmark in preliminary group 'III', and a match Ireland vs Norway in Final 'B' - in this way a researcher with just this source would not discover without a doubt which Larsen played Kerlin, so Your sources are very important to establish, at least, the nationality of the featured Larsen :) - ps: the only Larsen game given in Földeák's work is from Bent - vs Gligoric in Moscow 1956. |
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Jun-05-07
| | Phony Benoni: <vonKrolock> Yes, I have found Olimpbase an excellent source for the Olympiads, both for results and the actual games This link will verify that A. Larsen was White in this game. http://www.olimpbase.org/1939/1939n...
Clicking on the result of the game played by A. Larsen in the match against Ireland will link you to a copy of the game on this page. Here's a couple more, just for interest. http://www.olimpbase.org/1939/1939d...
http://www.olimpbase.org/1939/1939i... |
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May-23-09
 | | Domdaniel: The white player here should be Arne Larsen.
Ǿjvind Larsen didn’t play in the 1st round match Denmark vs Ireland. But Norway’s Arne Larsen, on Bd 2, lost to Ireland’s Kerlin in the Finals B section – a Petrov, ending 46...Kb2, 0-1. Seems to fit the bill. |
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