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Bent Larsen (Jørgen Bent Larsen) was born on 4 March, 1935 in Thisted, Denmark, is a Danish chess grandmaster and author. Discover Bent Larsen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 4 March 1935
Birthday 4 March
Birthplace Thisted, Denmark
Date of death 9 September, 2010
Died Place Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Denmark

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1935

Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess grandmaster and author.

1942

In January 1942, Larsen contracted a number of childhood diseases.

Although none had any permanent effects, it was during this period that Larsen discovered chess.

1948

He had multiple wins over all seven World Champions who held the title from 1948 to 1985: Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and Anatoly Karpov, but lifetime negative scores against them.

1951

He went on to represent Denmark twice in the World Junior Championship, in 1951 at Birmingham (placing fifth) and in 1953 at Copenhagen (placing eighth).

He started playing seriously at the age of 17 when he moved to Copenhagen to study civil engineering, but he never graduated, choosing instead to play chess professionally.

Furthermore, while at military service, he studied Russian, which was instrumental in assisting him to understand Russian-language chess literature (something Bobby Fischer was also known to have done).

1954

He became an International Master at the age of 19 in 1954, from his bronze-medal performance on board one at the Amsterdam Olympiad.

He won his first of six Danish Championships in 1954, repeating this feat in 1955, 1956, 1959, 1963 and 1964.

1955

Larsen defeated Friðrik Ólafsson in an exhibition match at Oslo in 1955 by 4½–3½.

1956

He took first prize at the Gijón International Chess Tournament in 1956, ahead of Klaus Darga and Jan Hein Donner, and in the same year won at Copenhagen with 8/9.

Larsen became an International Grandmaster in 1956 with his gold-medal performance on board one at the Moscow Olympiad, where he drew with World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik.

He tied for 1st–2nd places at Hastings 1956–57 on 6½/9 with Svetozar Gligorić.

1957

At Dallas 1957, he scored 7½/14 for a shared 3rd–4th place; the winners were Gligorić and Samuel Reshevsky.

At the 1957 Wageningen Zonal, he tied for 3rd–4th places, along with Donner, with 12½/17; there were only three qualifying berths, so the two players had to dispute a playoff match.

1958

Larsen won by 3–1 over Donner at The Hague 1958 to qualify for his first Interzonal, at Portorož 1958.

Larsen could score only 8½/20 for 16th place, and was not close to qualifying.

But he scored his first major individual international success by winning Mar del Plata 1958 with 12/15, ahead of William Lombardy, Erich Eliskases, Oscar Panno, and Hermann Pilnik.

Larsen went into a slump beginning with the 1958 Interzonal.

1959

He tied 5th–6th in a strong field at Zürich 1959 with 9½/15, behind winner Tal, Gligorić, Paul Keres, and Bobby Fischer.

1960

Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-Soviet player, behind only Bobby Fischer, for much of the 1960s and 1970s.

He is considered to be the strongest player born in Denmark and the strongest from Scandinavia until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen.

Larsen was a six-time Danish Champion and a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions, reaching the semifinal three times.

But Larsen placed only 4th in a middle-range field at the 1960 Berg en Dal Zonal 1960 with 5½/9, and did not advance to the Interzonal.

1961

He recovered by sharing 1st–2nd places at Beverwijk 1961 on 7½/9 with Borislav Ivkov.

At Zürich 1961, he tied for 6th–7th places with 6/11, as Keres won ahead of Tigran Petrosian.

1962

At Moscow 1962, he shared 7th–11th places with 7½/15 (Yuri Averbakh won).

Around this time Larsen diversified his style, switching over to risky and unusual openings in some of his games, to try to throw his opponents off balance; this led to the recovery of his form and further development of his chess.

1963

He finished 2nd at the 1963 Halle Zonal with 13/19, behind winner Lajos Portisch, to advance to the Interzonal the next year.

1964

At Belgrade 1964, he shared 5th–6th places with 10/17 (Boris Spassky won).

He tied for 5th–7th places at Beverwijk 1964 on 9½/15; Keres and Nei won.

Larsen's unusual openings were on full display at the 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal, where he shared the 1st–4th places on 17/23 with Boris Spassky, Tal, and Vasily Smyslov, advancing as a Candidate.

1965

In the 1965 Candidates' matches, he defeated Borislav Ivkov at Bled by 5½–2½ but lost a hard-fought semifinal, also at Bled by 4½–5½ to former World Champion Mikhail Tal, who won the tenth game with a complex speculative knight sacrifice in the center.

1966

Larsen won a playoff match for alternates, an eventual third-place Candidates' position, against Efim Geller by 5–4 at Copenhagen 1966 (the first time a Soviet grandmaster had ever been beaten by a non-Soviet in a match).

1967

In 1967 he won the Sousse Interzonal with the score of 15½/21 after Fischer withdrew; this placed him 1½ points ahead of the field.

1968

He then won his first-round match against Lajos Portisch by 5½–4½ at Poreč 1968.

In Malmö, however, he lost the semifinal by 2½–5½ to Boris Spassky, who went on to win the title.

1970

From the early 1970s onward, he divided his years between Las Palmas and Buenos Aires with his Argentinian-born wife.

2010

He suffered from diabetes, and he died in 2010 from a cerebral haemorrhage.

Larsen was born in Tilsted, near Thisted in Denmark, and was educated at Aalborg Cathedral School.