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Bent Larsen vs Carlos Garcia Palermo
Magistral Internacional Ruibal (2008), Buenos Aires ARG, rd 7, Oct-07
Grob Opening: Keene Defense (A00)  ·  0-1

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Oct-30-08  Udit Narayan: What is the meaning of this annotation? Sorry, I don't understand Spanish.
Oct-30-08  Jim Bartle: It doesn't appear on my browser. If you can copy it here, I'll translate it.
Oct-30-08  Udit Narayan: On 9...f5, it says "Garcia Palermo ofrece tablas.."
Oct-30-08  Karpova: I don't do either but I remember (though I'm not 100% sure) that Garcia-Palermo offered a draw and Larsen declined. So maybe that's the meaning of the annotation.
Oct-30-08  Resignation Trap: <Karpova> is correct. "Tablas" is Spanish for "draw". In most European languages, the French word "Remis" is used. However, the French word for "draw" is "nulle". Confused?
Oct-30-08  Udit Narayan: thanks friends!
Oct-31-08  patzer of patzers: um, I know I'm not part of this conversation, but on my screen, the annotation is in English.

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Dec-25-09  Marmot PFL: Larsen must be crazy to play these openings against good players and refuse a draw.
Nov-14-13  henjutsu: Or in other words, brave. We learn from failing, right?

Then again, this was his last game. =(

Oct-06-24
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  Fusilli: <henjutsu> It wasn't a last round game. There were two more after this.

Larsen explained why he declined the draw offer that Garcia Palermo made out of respect: <It's that I don't make draws in 9 moves> <Es que yo no hago tablas en 9 jugadas> (http://www.nibaldocalvo.com/2021/12...).

That was true his whole life. Playing off-beat openings was also a thing he did throughout his career (offbeat yes, but not outright awful like here).

Why he declined that draw was the only thing Larsen explained in this tournament.

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