Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, I admit, are very g…

- Bent Larsen

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

- Bent Larsen

For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those…

- Bent Larsen

All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem u…

- Bent Larsen

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

- Bent Larsen

A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to…

- Bent Larsen

I often play a move I know how to refute.

- Bent Larsen

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

- Bent Larsen

Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most…

- Bent Larsen