A Look at Some of Larsen's Best Games

As noted several posts ago, Danish great Bent Larsen passed away September 9 at the age of 75. For at least a couple of decades he was among the world's elite, and in the late 60s and early 70s was seriously talked about as a world championship contender.

As you'd expect, a player of his caliber will have beaten many of the greats and produced some fantastic games, and if you click here you can replay 37 of his games (with my light annotations). I've included all his wins against world champions (he managed to beat Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov and Anand), plus a few other games: draws with Euwe and Kasparov, one famous loss each against Tal, Spassky and Fischer; plus five more games against non-world champions. (As a bonus, I've included the PGN so you can replay the games off-site.)

Enjoy.

Comments

[Dennis Monokroussos]

You're welcome? :)

[Nick Funnell]

Yes, many thanks for the great download, Dennis.

I guess we were all too busy getting stuck into your comments/analysis on these classic games offline to go back on and post a thanks (that's my excuse, anyway)!

[guitarcameron]

Thanks, Dennis!