"Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing" -- Robert HUBNER

Peter Sowray's Chess Talk - Bent Larsen.

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Peter's subject for Thursday's demonstration was Bent Larsen who sadly recently died. The great Dane took extraordinary risks  to win and Peter examined two of his games, both of which were unfamiliar to his audience who were gasping with astonishment by the end of the second. Larsen had excellent records against the very best players of his time and in the historic chess match of 1970 between USSR and The Rest of the World took first board for the ROW team ahead of Bobby Fischer.

Ealing players were their usual voluble selves in suggesting improvements and variations and we all had a rollicking good time.

Peter ended the evening by sportingly showing an endgame that as a young player he lost against a current Ealing member.

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