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Bent Larsen

1935 - 2010

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bent Larsen has received more than 314,758 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Bent Larsen is the 31st most popular chess player (down from 28th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 139th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Chess Player.

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  • 40

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Bent Larsen ranks 31 out of 374Before him are Akiba Rubinstein, Miguel Najdorf, Judit Polgár, Savielly Tartakower, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, and Johannes Zukertort. After him are Mikhail Chigorin, Yuri Averbakh, David Bronstein, Borislav Ivkov, Gioachino Greco, and Efim Bogoljubov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Bent Larsen ranks 73Before him are Monique Wittig, Lee Remick, Sonny Bono, Floyd Patterson, Kurt Westergaard, and Zhelyu Zhelev. After him are Seiji Ozawa, António Ramalho Eanes, Gene Vincent, Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Terry Riley, and Roger B. Chaffee. Among people deceased in 2010, Bent Larsen ranks 54Before him are Arthur Penn, Ryszard Kaczorowski, Mario Monicelli, Francisco Varallo, Enzo Bearzot, and Juliet Anderson. After him are Martin Gardner, Hwang Jang-yop, Antony Flew, James Black, Israel Tal, and Solomon Burke.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Bent Larsen ranks 149 out of 893Before him are Hastein (810), Olaf I of Denmark (1050), Kurt Westergaard (1935), Giancarlo Esposito (1958), Michael Ancher (1849), and Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (1456). After him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659), Morten Olsen (1949), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Anne Sophie Reventlow (1693), and Princess Margaret of Denmark (1895).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Denmark

Among chess players born in Denmark, Bent Larsen ranks 1After him are Jacob Aagaard (1973).