| Sep-24-06 | | ToTheDeath: Gheorghiu had lost so many times to Larsen that he cracked mentally in this won position, losing on time one move before the time control. According to the Siegen Olympiad tournament book, "Eye witnesses present at the closing stages of this amazing encounter reported that Gheorgiu reached out his right hand to administer the lethal blow, Knight to Bishop Six, but at this precise moment the said hand was seized with a convulsive tremble which rendered the Rumanian Grandmaster incapable of transferring the piece to the required square. In the act of summoning up sufficient reserves of will-power to overcome this unfortunate and paralytic state of affairs, Gheorgiu overstepped the time limit." |
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Apr-06-07
 | | fm avari viraf: <ToTheDeath> Thanks for the information regarding the incident but it is very unfortunate for Florin. |
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| Jun-13-10 | | wordfunph: <ToTheDeath> i also read that in page 46 of Paul Hoffman's "King's Gambit - A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game". |
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| Jun-13-10 | | wordfunph: Bent Larsen - Florin Gheorghiu, Siegen ol (Men) qual-D 1970
click for larger viewAnalysis by Rybka 2.2n2 mp 32-bit:
1.  (-1.63): 39...Nf3 40.Kg2 Ng5+ 41.Kf1 Qxc4+ 42.Qe2 Qxd5 43.Qe8+ |
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Mar-04-15
 | | Fusilli: <ToTheDeath> <wordfunph> I also read it in Paul Hoffman's book (good book, btw). By the time of this game, their score was already 4.5 - 0.5, and in their last game, Gheorghiu had blundered badly: Larsen vs Gheorghiu, 1968
Their lifetime score ended up being +8 -1 =7 (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...). Gheorghiu had to wait until 1980 to finally beat Larsen for the first and only time. |
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| Dec-25-18 | | DonChalce: ...now this is lame. |
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May-05-21
 | | Troller: <But my game against Gheorghiu was the great attraction. Spectators pushed in from all sides, I almost became a murderer. To get a little bit of space I used the elbow and hit a lady in her stomach, and now what if she had been pregnant... I sacrificed an exchange, sadly it was incorrect. But the Romanian spent a lot of time and got into terrible time trouble. My position was hopeless, there goes a piece, move on, parry the mate, run with the a-pawn! Everything of course blitzed out, he was not to have any of my time for thinking. He could have turned out the lights in many ways and even if he chose the longest detour he was still winning when he overstepped the time limit at move 39. I cashed in the point like I expected no less, I usually win against Gheorghiu! But he was really shocked, what if this Danish team of reserves were to send Romania into the B-final.> Bent Larsen "Skakbladet" 1970. |
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May-05-21
 | | perfidious: Hardly Larsen's most impressive effort, but part payment of a karmic debt was thereby registered. |
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| May-05-21 | | Granny O Doul: If the computer eval at the end is only -1.63, that is inconclusive. Of course, that is per Rybka 2010. I don't like to invite others to do work that I'm unwilling to do, but if it turns out Gheorghiu wasn't actually winning at the end, maybe it'd be some comfort to him. |
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| May-05-21 | | SChesshevsky: <...I sacrificed an exchange, sadly it was incorrect...> Think the exchange was fine. Seems compensation of the two B's and eventual passed pawn at least good enough. Practically, probably even better. Wonder where abouts Black burned his time? At the time of exchange? Later looking for win? Larsen probably made things tougher self pinning his rook. Think maybe Gheorghiu showed nerves/time most rushing 32... Nf3. Poor Larsen's got nothing and a prep move like 32... Qd1 might've been enough to end it. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 18.Rxf7