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Nov-07-17
 | | FSR: "During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Nimzowitsch was in the Baltic war zone. He escaped being drafted into one of the armies by feigning madness, insisting that a fly was on his head. He then escaped to Berlin, and gave his first name as Arnold, possibly to avoid anti-Semitic persecution. Nimzowitsch eventually moved to Copenhagen in 1922, which coincided with his rise to the world chess elite, where he lived for the rest of his life in one small rented room. In Copenhagen, he twice won the Nordic Chess Championship, in 1924 and 1934. He obtained Danish citizenship and lived in Denmark until his death in 1935." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_... |
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Nov-07-17
 | | HeMateMe: you can't blame anyone for wanting to escape the Red/White terror in Russia of the 1920s. It made the blood letting of the French Revolution look like a spring picnic, by comparison. |
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Nov-07-17
 | | moronovich: The best danish player,before Larsen entered the scene,was IM Enevoldsen,who became a friend of Nimzo. They now rest neck to neck on the same cemetary. I had the personal honor to play the former danish champion,Gemzoe,several times.And he told me that he found it easy to draw Nimzo.But beating him was
next to impossible. |
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Nov-16-17
 | | Annie K.: <perfidious: <<HMM: so, Nimzo was a Baltic german who emigrated to Denmark?>
I believe Ni(e)mzowitsch is derived from nemtsev (pronounced nyemtsev), the Russian word for German. No doubt someone more knowledgeable than I such as <Annie K.> can confirm this.>> Yes indeed, :) but one thing to remember about these origin-indicative surnames is that they are almost never a sign of <recent> origins. Think about it: we all have surnames these days, and who is going to drop theirs when they emigrate somewhere, and that in favor of naming the land they just left, to boot? No, these names came about way back when the people of a given country were just starting to adopt the custom of surnames; there was Joe, the smith, now known as Joe Smith (as opposed to Joe, the tailor, who is now Joe Taylor), oh and that new guy from some other land, who of course is now identified by that particular detail. So if somebody is called Nimzowitsch, that only indicates that he had a distant ancestor who emigrated from Germany just when the surname fashion started - quite a few generations ago most likely - and almost certainly would have no cultural background from that particular country himself. |
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| Mar-04-18 | | gars: March is a very rich month for Chess: Larsen, Fischer, Evans, Smejkal, Korchnoi, who else? |
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| Mar-04-18 | | Ironmanth: My favorite autograph is one from Bent Larsen at the World Open (which he won!) in NYC in 1974. He was analyzing with Julio Kaplan, and graciously tolerated my star struck interruption to grant my request. Happy birthday and RIP Grandmaster. Thanks for so many memorable games. |
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| Mar-04-18 | | thegoodanarchist: < offramp: Has anyone here read The Stand?> Yes, I read it. In fact, it is the only Stephen King book I have read. I don't think King is a great writer. |
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| Mar-04-18 | | TheFocus: I don't find King to be a great writer, although he did write an excellent book titled "On Writing." |
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| Mar-04-18 | | sfm: Larsen!!
He was for Denmark what Fischer was for USA - without the difficult stuff.
Up there and mixing with the world top and winning a string of GM-tournaments.
He famously ran into Fischer in Denver '71, but kept playing after and kept winning tournaments.
Somebody once wrote to him "You are not only our strongest player, but also our best chess writer, and it is doubtful that you will ever be surpassed by any one other Danish player". True it was, and it still is.
I met him a couple of times, and he was exactly as entertaining and pleasant as in his books. |
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| Jul-26-18 | | ewan14: As someone said , if it was not for the three Soviets rule - in 1964 it would have been the Russians v Larsen
in the Candidates matches
and just as Korchnoi beat world champion Petrosian twice in 1965 , Larsen beat Petrosian twice in 1966 |
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| Jul-26-18 | | Howard: Larsen remarked in his book on his best games (the 60's edition) that if not for that rule, the eight Candidates in 1965 would have been just him and "seven Russians". On the other hand, Kasparov was a bit disparaging of that comment in his MGP, stating that Larsen probably wouldn't have advanced very far in the Candidates that year. |
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| Jul-26-18 | | ewan14: I did not realise it was Larsen himself !
Depends which Soviets he played , he ran Tal close and , I think , beat Geller in the 3rd place play off |
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| Dec-23-18 | | Jean Defuse: ...
This is Bent <Larsen's earliest recorded game>, played on 16th October 1947 when he was 12 years old. He was playing before dinner against his father and the reason for the rather abrupt end is that dinner was getting cold! [Event "Holstebro"]
[Date "1947.10.16"]
[White "Larsen, Niels K"]
[Black "Larsen, Bent"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. d5 Bg7 4. c4 Nf6 5. f3 e5 6. Qa4+ Bd7 7. Qb4 Nxe4 8. fxe4 Qh4+ 9. g3 Qxe4+ 10. Ne2 Qxh1 11. Qxb7 Bh3 12. Nd2 O-O 13. Qxa8 Nd7 14. Qxa7 Nc5 15. Qa3 e4 16. Nf4 Bxf1 17. Nxf1 Re8 18. Be3 Bh6 19. O-O-O Bxf4 20. gxf4 Nd3+ 21. Kc2 Qg2+ 22. Nd2 Rb8 23. b3 Qxh2 24. Kc3 Nxf4 25. Nxe4 Nh5 26. Qb2 Qe5+ 27. Kc2 Qxe4+ 28. Rd3 f5 29. Qd4 Qxd4 30. Rxd4 0-1 ... |
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Jan-08-19
 | | Troller: <Larsen's earliest recorded game> As you are probably aware, there is a correspondence game begun June 4th the same year but that game ended October 21st. This is the first game in Jan Løfberg's book (http://www.skaksalg.dk/varedetaljer...) and we can probably rest assured that if there were any earlier recorded games, then Løfberg would have found them. |
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Mar-04-19
 | | Penguincw: Happy Birthday, Bent Larsen. |
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| Dec-13-19 | | mckmac: < ”Preparing for a game with Larsen is a matter which is either too complicated, or too simple. The Dane’s repertoire contains practically all opening systems, and one’s chances of guessing the variation are no better than in a lottery. Therefore at home it was decided to begin the game with the advance of the king’s pawn. At that the preparation came to an end…” > -Mikhail Tal, writing of his pre-game preparation for the great Bent Larsen in the 1979 Montreal tournament. |
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| Apr-30-20 | | wordfunph: "I never had a trainer, and for all that I have
achieved, I have myself to thank."
- Bent Larsen
Source: New In Chess Magazine 2020 01 |
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| Jun-20-20 | | Uhtred: Some other notable chess players born in March are : Tarrasch, Maroczy, Smyslov, Geller, Seirawan, Tukmakov,Ivanchuk, Topalov, Navara, Artemiev. |
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Jun-20-20
 | | harrylime: Bent Larsen is a great great chess player.
Bobby so respected him . |
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| Nov-08-20 | | The Rocket: The most underrated player of all time. His best games had no flaws, his worst you could throw in the bin. Very precise calculator at his best. I don't know why he was so consistent, maybe his understanding lagged behind a bit and on his off days when the calculations were more sluggish, he might have played a bit too much on instinct.. When you see his best games, you wonder how he could have play a positionally dubious game... Not only did Larsen he defeat a prime Fischer as black, he also beat a prime Anatoly Karpov, multiple times. Unfortunately best remembered for 0-6 against Fischer. A result that is still hard to believe could happen. |
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Nov-08-20
 | | plang: Larsen consistently took a lot of risks playing double-edged, interesting games. With that style inconsistency is to be expected. |
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| Nov-08-20 | | The Rocket: Ones understanding of chess aid in determining whether a risky move is justifiable or not. Which is why Kasparov played very risky yet only lost once or twice a year on average. |
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| May-21-23 | | WhiteRook48: one of the (imo) funnier stories involving Larsen was when Ken Smith (of Smith-Morra Gambit fame) in a tournament played the Smith-Morra in nearly every game as white where he had the possibility (and lost in the majority of the occasions that he employed it), and when in another game an opponent played 1...e5 to Smith's 1. e4, Larsen annotated it as 1...e5? <"stronger was 1...c5, winning a pawn!"> |
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May-21-23
 | | perfidious: Reading Larsen's annotations was always of interest, but that comment in the tournament book was downright hilarious. |
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| May-22-23 | | areknames: Haha, Larsen was just the best! My favourite commentator and, of course, a legend of the game. |
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