is Bent Larsen the greatest player from Scandinavia

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No.

He's from Denmark. Denmark isn't located on the Scandinavian peninsula. Even if it were, there's still this Norwegian guy.

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Tatzelwurm wrote:

No.

He's from Denmark. Denmark isn't located on the Scandinavian peninsula. Even if it were, there's still this Norwegian guy.

From wikipedia: "In English, Scandinavia usually refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia

But yeah, that guy from Norway probably has a claim to the OPs question. Smile

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Magnus?
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Yup, you know Magnus is probably the strongest player in the history at this point (because modern chess > old chess)