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Legendary game · 1970

A top GM crushed in 17 moves

Larsen vs Spassky — Belgrade 1970 · Nimzo-Larsen Attack (A01)

Spassky

Larsen

Belgrade, nineteen seventy. USSR versus the Rest of the World — and Spassky crushes Bent Larsen in just seventeen moves.

The board stops before the key move — you'll have to find it yourself.

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