What is Bent Larsen?
{{Infobox chess player |playername = Bent Larsen |image = Bent Larsen.jpg |caption= |birthname = Jørgen Bent Larsen |country = {{DEN}} |birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|3|4}} |birth_place = Tilsted near [[Thisted]], [[Denmark]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|9|9|1935|3|4}} |death_place = Buenos Aires |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] |worldchampion = |womensworldchampion = |rating = 2415 (January 2009) |peakrating = 2660 (January 1971) }}'''Jørgen Bent Larsen''' (4 March 1935–9 September 2010) was a [[Denmark|Danish]] [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (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. 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. At his best he was rated (FIDE rating list) fourth in the world. Larsen was the strongest chess player born in Denmark, and the strongest [[Scandinavia]]n until the emergence of [[Magnus Carlsen]].<ref>[[Aaron Nimzovich]], who became Danish, was born in [[Latvia]].</ref><ref>Edward Winter: [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/larsen.html Bent Larsen (1935-2010)]</ref> From the early 1970s, he lived for part of the year in [[Las Palmas]], and in [[Buenos Aires]], with his [[Argentina|Argentinian]]-born wife. == Olympiad performances == Bent represented Denmark six times in [[Chess Olympiad]]s, always on first board, and compiled an aggregate score of 75/109 (+61 =28 −20), for 68.8%, according to olimpbase.org. He always played a very high number of games, almost all of the rounds, and won three board medals, one gold and two bronze. * [[Amsterdam]] 1954, board one, 13½/19 (+11 =5 −3), board bronze medal; * [[Moscow]] 1956, board one, 14/18 (+11 =6 −1), board gold medal; * [[Munich]] 1958, board one, 13/19 (+11 =4 −4); * [[Havana]] 1966, board one, 11/18 (+9 =4 −5); * [[Lugano]] 1968,