Interview with Danish Chess Grandmaster Bent Larsen (English subtitles)

Bent Larsen (1935–2010) was a Danish Chess Grandmaster. He was a six-time Danish champion and a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions: 1965, 1968, 1971, and 1977 (reaching the semifinal three times). He won three Interzonal tournaments: Amsterdam 1964, Sousse 1967, and Biel 1976. Larsen won several dozen major international tournaments during his career, and was awarded the first Chess Oscar in 1967.

Bent Larsen is considered to be the strongest chess player ever born in Denmark, and strongest in Scandinavia, until the emergence of Magnus Carlsen. 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. Since the early 1970s, he lived for part of the year in Las Palmas (Spain) and in Buenos Aires (Argentina), with his Argentinian-born wife.

This interview was made in Aalborg (Denmark) in 1989 during the Danish chess championship, in which Bent Larsen participated for the first time in 25 years.

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