This is an autobiographical collection of games from one of the great chess fighters of the modern era. Bent Larsen is a Danish player who has been in the top echelons of world chess for 40 years.

Bent Larsen: Master of Counter-Attack : Larsen's Selected Games of Chess 1948-69

Humor & Entertainment

Larsen, Bent

Puzzles & Games

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Bent Larsen is one of the outstanding figures of post-war chess, with top-level tournament victories spanning five decades. His outstanding fighting qualities have made him a great favourite with the chess public and even in the latter stages of his career he remained capable of sweeping victories over world-class opposition. While some other Grandmasters have settled for an easy retirement, Larsen still fires on all cylinders!

Bent Larsen's Best Games of Chess (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics)

Hardinge Simpole Limited

This is the groundbreaking cult classic by the Legendary Grandmaster Bent Larsen and the noted openings theoretician Steffen Zeuthen. Zoom 001 stands for Zero Hour for Operative Opening Models. The principal idea behind Zoom 001 is the creation of “pattern knowledge” of typical middle game/endgame structures—one of a grandmaster’s essential qualities—cultivated through the use of the Grunfeld and Catalan openings. Using twenty modern Grandmasters' games, the authors show how these structures typically arise. Included are games by Andersson, Botvinnik, Fischer, Korchnoi, and of course Larsen. By using complete games instead of variations that might be outdated by the next tournament, Larsen and Zeuthen demonstrate that pattern recognition is a timeless skill. By recognizing these typical patterns, you will not only gain a feel for the position, but will be able to effectively form a game plan that will allow you to carry you to won positions.

Zoom 001 Zero Hour for Operative Chess Opening Models

Zeuthen, Steffen

Ishi Press

San Antonio 1972 was either the strongest chess tournament ever played in the history of the United States or, if not the very strongest, then second only to New York 1924. What makes this book especially great is not merely was it a great tournament with great players, but that the players annotated some of their own games. In this day and age, there are millions of games in the chess databases, but annotated games are increasingly hard to find. This book has games annotated by Karpov, Larsen, Hort, Suttles, Mecking, Donald Byrne, Gligoric, Keres, Saidy, Portisch, Kaplan, Evans and Smith. Two games were annotated by both Larsen and Petrosian. In addition, many of the games were annotated by International Master David Levy. This book was originally published in Descriptive Chess Notation. Since that time, Descriptive has become almost obsolete. For that reason, all 120 games in this book have been converted into modern Algebraic Notation and are included in an appendix in the back of the book. The games in the back are grouped and sorted alphabetically according to the player of the white pieces. Thus, all games in which Browne played White are first, followed by the games by Byrne, Campos-Lopez, Evans, Gligoric, Hort, Kaplan, Karpov, Keres, Larsen, Mecking, Petrosian, Portisch, Saidy and Smith in that order.

San Antonio, 1972: Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. First International Chess Tournament

Levy, David

Church, Bill

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Editorial Chessy

This book is an examination of a particular opening structure, the Grunfeld Indian Structure, from both White's and Black's perspective. This structure is {d4, Nf3, g3, Bg2} for white and {d5, Nf6, g6, Bg7} for Black. The authors chose to call this structure "ZOOM". There are two main sections: the first is an exposition and the second is a collection of 451 lightly annotated games. The exposition section is divided into 8 subsections: the first 4 deal with ZOOM for White and the remaining 4 deal with ZOOM for Black. The annotated games are grouped into 8 corresponding subsections.

ZOOM 001: Zero hour for operative opening models

Dansk skakforlag/skakhuset

Bent Larsen (1935-2010) was one of the greatest fighters chess has ever seen. In his rich career the great Dane defeated all World Champions from Botvinnik to Karpov. He was a Candidate for the World Championship four times and became one of the most successful tournament players of his time. His uncompromising style and his unorthodox thinking made him popular with chess players all around the globe. In 1967/1968 Larsen won five international elite events in a row, a truly spectacular achievement. His successes were such that Bobby Fischer let him play first board in the legendary match Soviet Union vs. the World in 1970 in Belgrade. Bent Larsen also was a highly original chess writer and an extremely productive chess journalist. Not surprisingly the first chess book that Magnus Carlsen ever studied was written by the strongest Scandinavian player before him. This collection brings together more than 120 of Bent Larsen’s best games, annotated by himself. His comments are lucid, to the point, instructive and humorous. Together, these games are a tribute to his genius and a continuous joy to read and play through.

Bent Larsen's Best Games: Fighting Chess with the Great Dane

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