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Bent Larsen, vol. 2, 1966-1972. Signed by Løfberg. No. 129 of 200 numbered copies. Dreams about the World Championship. 564 games of 565 games known 1966-1972. 

LUXURY EDITION - hardcover, larger format, dust jacket and two reading tapes. The second volume in the great work about chess grandmaster Bent Larsen deals with the years when he rightly dreamed of becoming world champion. In the period 1966-1972 he won tournaments at a pace and in a magnitude never seen before. That is why he was called the world's best tournament player. However, the semi-final in the candidates' tournament was the end of the Danish dreams. In both 1968 and 1971 he was stopped by a future world champion. First by the Russian Boris Spassky and then by the American Bobby Fischer. These two played a legendary match in Reykjavik in 1972. Bent Larsen's entire insightful story about the match that suddenly changed the game of chess forever is brought to you in the book. 564 of Bent Larsen's 565 registered games from these seven years are included in this work - it is thus a fairly complete collection of games. The vast majority of games are commented on by the grandmaster's expert hand. 

In this volume, the reader gets the opportunity to play through Bent Larsen's very best games. There are the two great victories over world champion Tigran Petrosjan from the tournament in Santa Monica in 1966. Bent Larsen defeated Spassky as the first world champion - just as he was the last to defeat Fischer in a tournament game. At the end of 1967, Bent Larsen won four major tournaments in the space of four months, each time relegating Soviet grandmasters to secondary positions. The Danes could understand that. In almost all other sports, we received cruel claws from the Soviet Union. For his achievements, Bent Larsen received the chess Oscar as proof that he was "The World's Best Chess Player 1967". Bent Larsen was one of the most successful Danes in the late 1960s. When his name was mentioned on radio or television, almost everyone at home knew who he was and what he was. A Gallup survey from 1968 had placed him on a list of the 10 most famous Danes. 

Bent Larsen was from 1935 and thus too old to be part of the flower children, the hippies and the youth rebellion. He lived with his wife Lizzie in a villa in Gentofte, had a car and other comforts that the couple now – by being part of the middle class – could afford. Significant events and episodes from the chess master's life are also unfolded. On and off the chess board, conflicts arose with Bent Larsen as a party. Sometimes he ended up in the disputes through no fault of his own, other times it was with good reason. These controversies are described in detail in separate chapters.

18 x 25 cm. 1112 pages. Publisher's decorated binding with text on spine. Dustjacket with slight tear. Løfbergs Vorlag, Copenhagen 2024. Weight 2268 g!. Condition as new.

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