Bent Larsen's Collapse of 2008
The legend, Bent Larsen lost all his 9 games at the Magistral Internacional of the Argentine chess club Ruibal in Buenos Aires. It was the first tournament in four years that Larsen was participating.
Some reports criticize Larsen for his "exotic" openings and want him to be invited to the Chess 960 events where he can play those kind of openings. Others suspect that he is losing it. Our hope is that he played those openings to get the young guns out of the opening books right from move one and hence the 1. g4? and and 1 e4 a5 The only chink in this variation of thinking is that he even refused a draw offer from old rival, Argentine player Carlos Garcia Palermo in the 7th round even though he had not scored at all from the first six rounds. Sad indeed!
Check out the round by round scores here
Some reports criticize Larsen for his "exotic" openings and want him to be invited to the Chess 960 events where he can play those kind of openings. Others suspect that he is losing it. Our hope is that he played those openings to get the young guns out of the opening books right from move one and hence the 1. g4? and and 1 e4 a5 The only chink in this variation of thinking is that he even refused a draw offer from old rival, Argentine player Carlos Garcia Palermo in the 7th round even though he had not scored at all from the first six rounds. Sad indeed!
Check out the round by round scores here
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