Master Class Vol. 20 - Bent Larsen

Tactics

Bent Larsen showed that creative, aggressive play could succeed even at the highest level during an era dominated by more classical strategic approaches.

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 Peter Heine Nielsen on Bent Larsen

2.1 Post Larsen Generation

2.2 Playing your idol

2.3 Visits to Buenos Aires

2.4 Bents office

2.5 Flank pawn games

3 Short biography

4 Opening

4.1 Introduction

4.2 White Repertoire

4.3 Black Repertoire

4.4 1.b3

4.5 Accelerated Dragon

4.6 Meran

5 Strategy

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Karpov-Larsen Montreal 1979

5.3 Short-Larsen Brussels 1987

5.4 Larsen-Suetin Copenhagen 1965

5.5 Larsen-Kortschnoj Palma de Mallorca 1969

5.6 Larsen-Wade Teeside 1972

5.7 Larsen-Unzicker Olympiad 1968

5.8 Petrosian-Larsen Piatigorsky Cup 1966

6 Tactics

6.1 Nielsen - Larsen 1953

6.2 Robatsch vs Larsen 1956

6.3 Larsen vs Gligoric 1956

6.4 Evans vs Larsen 1957

6.5 Larsen vs Lengyel 1964

6.6 Larsen vs van Scheltinga 1964

6.7 Larsen vs Matanovic 1965

6.8 Flohr vs Larsen1966

6.9 Larsen vs Petrosian 1966

6.10 Larsen vs Davie 1967

6.11 Gligoric vs Larsen 1967

6.12 Bobotsov vs Larsen 1969

6.13 Polugaevsky vs Larsen 1969

6.14 Larsen vs Kavalek 1970

6.15 Mecking vs Larsen 1970

6.16 Uhlmann vs Larsen 1971

6.17 Larsen vs Eley 1972

6.18 Larsen vs Radulov 1973

6.19 Fraguela vs Larsen 1976

6.20 Jelen vs Larsen 1977

6.21 Larsen vs Amado 1983

6.22 Short vs Larsen 1985

6.23 Bronstein vs Larsen 1985

6.24 Larsen vs Garbarino 1995

6.25 Nielsen vs Larsen 1997

7 Endgames

7.1 Chapter 1: Same-Coloured Bishop Endgames

7.1.1 1.1 Centurini's Drawing Position

7.1.2 1.2 Larsen's Cunning King

7.1.3 1.3 The Queenside Breakthrough

7.1.4 1.4 The Kingside Breakthrough

7.1.5 1.5 The Kingside Fortress

7.2 Chapter 2: Minor Piece Endgames

7.2.1 2.1 Larsen's Cunning Knight

7.2.2 2.2 Smyslov's Bad Bishop

7.2.3 2.3 Larsen's Bad Bishop

7.2.4 2.4 Knight Magic Part 1

7.2.5 2.5 Knight Magic Part 2

7.2.6 2.6 The Power of the Bishop Pair

7.2.7 2.7 The Power of the Rooks

7.3 Chapter 3: Rook Endgames

7.3.1 3.1 Activate the King

7.3.2 3.2 The Typical Pawn Trick

7.3.3 3.3 The Rook Belongs Behind the Passed Pawn

7.3.4 3.4 An Exciting Win against Hübner

7.3.5 3.5 An Exciting Win against Portisch

7.3.6 3.6 Torre's Drawing Save

7.4 Chapter 4: Additional Endgames

7.4.1 4.1 Opposite-Coloured Bishops Favour the Attacker

7.4.2 4.2 Power Play on the Dark Squares

7.4.3 4.3 Queen and Rook Unleash the Attack

7.5 Interactive Video

7.5.1 The Dance of Domination

8 Bonus

8.1 All Games from Larsen

8.2 Larsen Book with White

8.3 Larsen Book with Black

8.4 More Tactics

8.5 Strategy Special