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Menorah ceremony is officially scheduled in West Milford
For the first time in Township of West Milford history there is a lighted menorah on the municipal complex lawn. A ceremony will take place at the site tonight (Dec. 13) at 7 p.m.
Rain did not deter Rabbi Mendy Gurkov and Steve Fabian of the Chabad Jewish Center of Upper Passaic County on Friday, Dec. 7 when they arrived at the municipal building lawn to put a 9-foot-tall menorah in place.
A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the menorah is a universal symbol of freedom and light, said Rabbi Gurkov at the Dec. 5 Township of West Milford council workshop. Doris Aaronson, a practicing Jew from West Milford, disagreed and she called the menorah a religious symbol. Aaronson and Eleanor Monahan were among those who wanted nothing religious added to the holiday tree scene.
The menorah will join the tree that is annually decorated with lights in front of the town hall in accord with a township council Dec. 5 vote. Efforts to keep anything with religious connotation out of the display have resulted in the former Christmas tree being referred to as a holiday tree in more recent years. But that may be changing again too.
The day after the council workshop resident Tim Wagner sent Township Administrator Nancy Gage an email requesting that she send out a press release declaring that the tree in front of town hall be officially known as a Christmas tree.
"I do not have any official requests pending in my office at this time for any religious displays other than the menorah," Gage responded in a Dec. 7 email to Wagner. "As for the tree, I did not get direction from the council the other night to issue a public statement that the tree is now to be referred to as a Christmas tree."
The Rev. Michael Rodak, administrator at Our Lady Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church in Hewitt, Wagner and others at the Dec. 5 council workshop said the lighted tree with its star on top is a Christmas tree, always has been a Christmas tree and should always be called a Christmas tree.
Rabbi Gurkov and people from his congregation agreed. This fact, they said, is why they felt it only fair to put up a Jewish symbol next to the Christian tree.
Rodak said the holiday tree concept is shameful, not respectful, and not kind to anyone. He said not to have a crèche or menorah in the display is also shameful. Lack of recognition of the symbols is breaking down the institution and fundamentals that made the country what it is, he said.
"The holiday season is for everyone to be able to celebrate their religion," said Wagner. "It is a time to be respectful to the traditions of others and their religious symbols. It is not a time to rename them so they can be disguised as something secular. Christmas trees are not secular. They are a Christian symbol."


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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY CORPUS CHRISTI ARMY DEPOT CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS and LODGE 2049, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS, AFL-CIO
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The Department of the Army, Corpus Christi Army Depot, Corpus Christi, Texas (Employer) filed a request for assistance with the Federal Service Impasses Panel (Panel) to consider a negotiation impasse under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (Statute), 5 U.S.C. § 7119, between it and Lodge 2049, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO (Union or Machinists).
After investigation of the request for assistance, concerning Article 17, Environmental Differential Pay (EDP), which arose during negotiations over a successor collective-bargaining agreement (CBA), the Panel determined that the parties should meet with Panel Member Mark A. Carter to assist them in resolving any outstanding issues. Thereafter, if any issues remained unresolved, the parties were informed that the Panel would take whatever action it deems appropriate to resolve the matter, which could include the issuance of a binding decision.
Pursuant to this procedural determination, Member Carter convened an informal conference with the parties on March 18, 2004, at the Employer's facility in Corpus Christi, Texas. During the course of that meeting, it was clarified that the parties did not dispute rolling over the wording in Sections 2, 4, and 5, of the current article, so those provisions present no issues for the Panel to resolve. The parties, however, remained deadlocked over two other sections. The Panel has now considered the entire record, including the parties' final offers and post-conference statements of position.
The Employer's mission is to overhaul, repair and modify rotary-winged aircraft for the U.S. Armed Forces. The bargaining unit consists of approximately 270 Wage Grade employees (non-professionals), who hold positions such as machinist, toolmaker, electrician and welder; employees work in an industrial setting. The parties' most recent CBA, which was to have expired on April 15, 2003, was extended until September 2003, to provide additional time to negotiate a successor CBA. The parties disagree over whether their CBA remains in full force and effect or now has expired, inasmuch as they did not negotiate a successor agreement within the specified time frame.
In 1997, the Union and two other labor organizations which represent employees at the Employer's facility, Local 2142, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and Local 797, National Federation of Federal Employees, filed a grievance in an effort to obtain EDP for Wage Grade employees who worked with hazardous levels of asbestos. The outcome was an arbitration award issued on March 24, 2000, which granted employees back pay, dating to 1991, for having been wrongly denied EDP for asbestos work. On appeal, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) upheld the arbitrator's award, except that portion dealing with the payment of attorney's fees, which was vacated and remanded to the arbitrator. See Department of the Army, Corpus Christi Army Depot, Corpus Christi, Texas and American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2142, et al., 56 FLRA 1057 (2001).[1]/
Within the past year, there has been legislation enacted by Congress involving EDP for exposure to asbestos hazards at Department of Defense (DoD) facilities. In this regard, 5 U.S.C. § 5343(c) requires the Employer to use the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards for determining EDP entitlement for asbestos exposure. That law addresses asbestos exposure and does not concern other contaminants. The Congress determined that the Employer would be prohibited from paying out EDP where the asbestos exposure in the workplace did not exceed the OSHA promulgated Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL). The Employer seeks to modify the bargaining agreement to comport with this legislation and its articulation of public policy. The Employer also seeks to institute the same OSHA PEL standards for entitlement to EDP for exposure to other workplace contaminants. The Union argues that the changes are redundant and unnecessary.
The parties disagree over whether the EDP article should include a standard for determining when employees are entitled to receive EDP for working with contaminants within the OSHA permissible exposure limit.
1. The Union's Position
The Union proposes the following:
Section 1: Presently, no employee in the bargaining unit is being paid Environmental Differential Pay (EDP).
Section 3: The Union may bring to the attention of the Employer situations which it feels should be investigated for possible Environmental Differential Pay. Following its investigation, the Employer will notify the Union in writing of its findings and determination. Any further consideration of the matter will be accomplished through the negotiations between the President and an additional Union representative and Employer representatives.
Its proposal would preserve contract wording that has served the parties well in the past. It does not establish a standard for assessing whether a workplace hazard justifies the payment of EDP, because there is no need to specifically reference any particular standard. In this regard, in 1997, when the parties disagreed over whether employees should receive backpay for working with hazardous levels of asbestos, the matter was submitted to a grievance arbitrator who determined that the appropriate standard to be used is the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Government-wide standard found in 5 C.F.R.§ 532.511, Subpart E, Appendix A. The arbitrator's determination to use the OPM standard was not an abuse of discretion as the award has been upheld on appeal. The proposed wording has worked well in the past because, upon receiving the award, the Employer acted in earnest for the first time to monitor and correct the hazardous asbestos condition in the workplace. Under the proposal, the Union would have a right to grieve in the event that the parties disagree over whether EDP should be authorized; utilization of the negotiated grievance/arbitration system has been and continues to be an appropriate mechanism to resolve such matters.
Since a new law determines the standard for granting EDP for asbestos at the Employer's facilities, there is no need to have contract language that mirrors the law inasmuch as the legislation prevents the use of any standard other than the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limits (PEL), at least with respect to the receipt of EDP for working with asbestos. In the event that subsequent legislation restores EDP rights to employees for asbestos work, employees would be able to avail themselves of the change because they would not be saddled with contract wording that specifies a required standard. The fact that another union that represents a different bargaining unit at the installation has voluntarily agreed to the Employer's proposed EDP standards is an insufficient basis for rejecting the Union's proposal. That unit, represented by AFGE, Local 2142, includes General Schedule employees, while the Machinists represent Wage Grade employees who are more likely to be affected by hazardous materials in the workplace. With respect to other workplace hazards, no standard should be referenced in the contract article because resolution of EDP issues belongs in the grievance/arbitration forum.
2. The Employer's Position
The following is the Employer's proposal:
Section 1: The Employer will make every effort possible to ensure that employees are not exposed to any hazardous situations while performing their duties. In accordance with section 5343(c)(4) of Title 5, United States Code, employees will be eligible for environmental differential when exposed to a working condition or hazard that falls within one of the categories approved by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Payment will only be made when the level of exposure exceeds the standard set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and/or the American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), whichever standard has the lowest exposure level in accordance with AR 40-5, paragraph 5-3(3). This applies to all workplace hazards.
Section 3: The Union may bring to the attention of the Employer situations which it feels should be investigated for possible Environmental Differential Pay (EDP). Their concern will be addressed in writing and will include the location of the situation, nature of exposure, and other factors necessary for inclusion as a payable category. Following its investigation, the Employer will notify the Union in writing of its findings and determination. Should a situation arise in which a qualifying hazard cannot be practically eliminated and an EDP is authorized by the Employer, payment shall be made in accordance with CFR 532.511, Subpart E, Appendix A. Work situations determined to be in compliance with the OSHA standards and/or the threshold limit values established by the ACGIH, are deemed to have practically eliminated the hazard and are not eligible for EDP. This includes situations where the hazard has been practically eliminated through use of personal protective equipment and engineering guidelines.
This proposal would establish a standard for determining entitlement to EDP for all workplace hazards which are compensable under OPM regulations, including asbestos. The proposed wording would eliminate the ambiguity of the existing contract language that, in the past, has left to the discretion of arbitrators the standard to be used for EDP entitlement on an ad hoc basis. Furthermore, the wording makes reference to, and is consistent with, public policy as established by Congress in the new legislation signed by the President in November 2003, which requires DoD agencies to use OSHA PEL standards in determining when EDP should be paid for asbestos work. The proposal likely would reduce the number of grievances filed by the Union over EDP since there now would be certainty as to which standard is to be used. The language proposed is similar to that voluntarily agreed to by AFGE, another labor organization which represents a much larger bargaining unit of Wage Grade and General Schedule employees at the facility; having uniform standards among the various bargaining units for determining EDP entitlement would eliminate disparities and confusion regarding the practices the Employer is to follow.
After careful consideration of the evidence and arguments presented by the parties on the issues, we conclude that the dispute over the EDP article should be resolved on the basis of the Employer's final offer in Section 1, and a "hybrid" version of the parties' proposals in Section 3. With respect to Section 1, we are persuaded that the resolution of the issue should include contract wording specifying the standard to be used for determining when employees are entitled to EDP. The absence of a standard in the parties' most recent CBA has left the matter to the discretion of arbitrators. In our view, the Union's proposal ignores the public policy established in the recent legislation that has taken the matter of EDP entitlement at DoD faciliti


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Sports is filled with testosterone. Every player tougher than the other. Emotions run high and sometimes things are said that wouldn't be said in a polite society. But sometimes there is also a line that can't be crossed. And in last night's Sounders vs. Dynamo match, Colin Clark crossed it.
In case you haven't been keeping up to date on this story, early in the Dynamo's 2-0 loss to the Sounders, the ball was touched out of bounds. In an MLS match, young boys and girls, usually from a local youth sports club, attend the sidelines and assure the players are fed a new ball so play can continue. At times they will throw the ball directly to the player and at times on the ground near a player. In any case, keep in mind these are children.
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Unfortunately for Clark, NBC Sports was covering the match nationally and their cameras picked up the whole thing. Check out the video below.
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"I didn't mean to disrespect anyone and am sorry for letting my emotions get the best of me," Clark wrote in his next post. "It's not who I am and it won't happen again.
The Dynamo released their own statement.
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The editorial staff of Sports Nut Media strongly condemn Clark's actions. They were inappropriate and have no place in civil society or in professional sports. For what it's worth, we don't believe Colin Clark is homophobic nor do we believe he, in normal circumstances would act this way. And we do believe his apology is sincere.
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Question about cat P.U. surgery
My male cat was perfectly healthy for 5 years. 3 days ago, his urethra got obstructed by a bladder stone and he had to have an emergency unobstruction. Immediately after the emergency unobstruction, it got obstructed again, and we had to get that procedure again.
First question: The urethra obstruction coincided
with me getting a dog for the first time. Is this likely caused by stress?
Second question: My usual vet recommended P.U. surgery. At first he said it was a difficult type of surgery, and later changed his mind and said he would do it for $1300. I called a different vet, who said much the same and quoted $1700. I called a third vet who said it was a totally routine and common procedure and quoted
. The third vet has his own clinic building, good reviews on Yelp, and seems otherwise reputable. I can't help but think that either two vets are trying to rip me off, or one is sketchy. (The cheap vet is in the country, while the other two are in the city -- maybe this explains the low price?)
Should I get the surgery? And should I go with the low bidder?
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I can't speak to the price side of this (though if you check out each respective vets' surgical facilities, that may explain it), but on the P.U. surgery itself...
My cousins had this same problem with their cat- it's apparently related to diet? Or something. In any case, the cat had the
exact same
issue- and the surgery did help. He's apparently had further bladder stones since, but since the surgery he passes them without too many issues.
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Stress can exacerbate the problem, but doesn't exactly "cause" it.
And you should definitely NOT go with the low bidder. This is time-consuming and fiddly surgery, it is certainly not "routine", and it's your cat's life and health you're dealing with. The place to cut corners is not in surgery. $450 is pretty ridiculously low for any kind of surgery, frankly, and I would suspect that the way they manage that price is in ways which directly impact the safety of their patients.
There are medical ways to manage this problem, but it cannot really be cured. Mangled surgery can leave you with an incontinent cat (at best).
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I am not your vet, so this is not medical advice.
Going with the low ball surgeon is not the best decision, but not because you should pay more but because the services are likely very dissimilar. Please look closely at the written estimates, make sure that the drugs being used are all the same. This particular procedure can be very time consuming because of the location and tissues involved.
It is possible that the country vet owns her building, her husband is her LVT and she doesn't charge for her services the way she should. It is also possible that she is going cut corners on things like drugs, monitoring, pain management and blood work.
In short: make sure you're not comparing apples to oranges.
On preview, Biscotti is spot on, as usual.
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My cat's PU surgery was an emergency and was significantly more expensive than any of the quotes you got, so I say go for whatever vet you feel best about. I agree that $450 seems a bit low for that much rerouting of plumbing. The vets that did our surgery did mention that some vets don't provide as much pain management and aftercare as they should, which may explain a lot of the difference in quotes you got. If you have time, you could ask each vet about those sorts of details and compare their answers.
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My cat got this surgery after several blockages. It cost us $1200, and we might have gotten a discount for being such frequent unblocking customers. Our vet said it was somewhat routine, but quite complicated; she referred to it as "major surgery." She had one of the senior vets at the practice (the owner, and head vet, in fact) assist her, that's how seriously she took it.
Now, I really trust our vet, and we have used her for a long time. The facts that it was so expensive, and that two surgeons were involved, leads me to advise you not to go with the cheaper option. That is way, way cheaper than I have ever seen. So cheap that I distrust that it is the actual surgery. I paid that much for one of the unblockings (though that did include a pet hospital stay and many tests).
It may indeed be caused by stress; my cat got blocked during a breakup, when I got pregnant, and when I had the flu. The surgery doesn't solve everything, though. My cat will be on a special diet for the rest of his life, and he gets urinary tract infections whenever I get a cold or tge babby pops a tooth, which is really, really annoying.
YMMV, hope that helps!
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Thanks everyone!
Followup question: is it considered normal care to do the PU surgery on a cat that has only been obstructed twice (successive days, so we didn't have a chance to change his diet or water)? I want to get the best for him, but I also don't want to risk complications from a procedure that might not be necessary.
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My cat, like yours, was obstructed twice. His were a few days apart. This happened four years ago. Because his blockages were so close together, the vet counted it as "one" episode. She advised changing his diet and enticing him to drink more water. She told me about the P.U. surgery as an option in the future if he continued to have problems. She wanted to see how he responded to the new diet and water. He hasn't had an issue with blockages again.
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I think the PU surgery for my cat cost somewhere above $2000 but that was at an emergency hospital in a large city. He'd gotten blocked maybe 3-4 times before that with crystals but not stones. We had already changed his diet after the first time. We finally had the surgery because they felt it would reduce the chance of more blockages by like 95%. All of the unblockings involved overnight stays and probably cost around 1K each time as he kept getting blocked on national holidays. The surgery did solve the problem permanently for us. The post op care was annoying - he had to live in the bathroom for 3 weeks with a cone head and use a litter box with just paper in it to keep the stitches clean. If you get the surgery also ask how the stitches should look as they heal - I made a bunch of unnecessary trips back to the vet because I was worried about how they looked only to be told it was all normal.
Did they analyze his stones / crystals? I believe there are two different types and that might affect the diet or treatments.
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Country vets are that much cheaper in my experience and it says nothing about how well they will care for your animals. For example, my farm vet treated an entire litter of 5 or 6 dumped kittens for pneumonia and even found homes for a few and charged us like $50. They probably won't have a nice waiting room with coffee and magazines for the owner though.
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Thanks all. We ended up taking him to the state veterinary school's animal hospital, where they were able to determine by X-ray that they were calcium oxalate stones which are unlikely to recur but cannot be dissolved through diet. So they did a cystotomy to remove the stones that were already present, and we'll keep him on low-mineral food to further reduce the risk of a recurrence. The total cost was about $3200, but I think it was worth it to get a firm diagnosis and avoid a surgery with really bad guaranteed side effects and even worse potential complications.
Lessons learned: 1) don't rely on your local family vet to understand a complicated cat-specific disease and 2) get pet insurance, especially if you have male cats.
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Bent Larsen dies at 75
Yesterday chess legend Bent Larsen passed away in Buenos Aires, only six months after his 75th birthday. We received the sad news from Thomas Hauge Vestergård, press officer of the Danish Chess Federation. Update: reactions by Peter Heine Nielsen and Yasser Seirawan added; profile added; his victories against World Champions added.
The Danish Chess Federation published a press release which you can read in English via Google Translate here. We also spoke to Mr Vestergård on the phone, who told us that about 14 days ago Mr Larsen suffered from a cerebral haemorrhage, after which he was taken into hospital for an operation. He never really recovered. "It is especially sad that this happened in the year in which we have so much celebrations for his 75th birthday. There would be another event, a GM tournament, later this year but this will probably be cancelled. Naturally we will have a memorial," said Vestergård.
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Peter Heine Nielsen, currently Denmark's number one player, told us: "This is big in Denmark, big everywhere, so it gets a lot of media attention, it's a very sad day for chess in general and for Danish chess especially, and for the people knew him personally."
"It is incredibly sad, but at the same time it is fantastic for Denmark that we had someone like Larsen. His influence cannot be overestimated. For a long time Denmark was the strongest chess country in Scandinavia, because of him."
"Personally I have learnt a lot from him by his writings and we have met several times, the last time in January this year. He talked about chess constantly, he loved chess. He still followed top chess, yes. Not like you and me, who need to see games five minutes after they finished, but in his own way he still followed it."
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Yasser Seirawan, who has known Larsen for decades, reacted: "Very bad news. Bent was and is a great personal hero of mine. My initial reaction to the news was a bit selfish: I was very happy that Chess Duels was dedicated to him and came in time for him to see it."
"For chess this is really a big loss. He was a giant in the chess world; certainly in the years I played him. He was a colourful personality, a story telly, and a man of burning ambition at the board. Let me share two small stories."
"A tournament in '81/'82 in Morón, Argentina. In the last round Bent played with Black against Ulf Andersson on first board. The two were leading by half a point, and I was in the trailing group, playing on board 2, and hoping they would draw. By the way, Ulf at that time was the world's number three, behind Karpov and Kasparov. He played Nf3, g3, Bg2, c4, castles and offered a draw. I was sitting next to them and was watching the whole thing. Bent instantly, without hesitation, said: "No!" Fortunately for me the game did end in a (hard-fought) draw. But this story sums up his chess career. He was a fighter at the chess board by definition."
"I reach out to his wife who stood at his site for 30 years. I was there when they met, in Mar del Plata. I was at a terras drinking a cappuccino when Bent and his future bride literally rushed by me, almost jumping. I thought: this is eternal love."
"Bent was a bridge to out past and to our future."
Jørgen Bent Larsen was born on the March 4th, 1935 in Thisted, Denmark, and graduated from Aalborg Cathedral School as a 17-year-old after having skipped two grades. After engineering studies in Copenhagen and the military service, Bent Larsen devoted himself exclusively to chess, which was his life forever.
He was national champion six times, a figure that could have been much higher if his engineering studies and his international career had not prevented him from playing more. Larsen became an International Grandmaster in 1956 with his gold-medal performance on board one at the Moscow Olympiad. Over the next 45 years Larsen won numerous international competitions, including three Interzonal tournaments: Amsterdam 1964, Sousse 1967 and Biel 1976. For many years it was generally agreed that he was the world's best tournament player.
In 1967 Larsen received the very first chess Oscar and in the period 1969-1972 he was repeatedly number three in the world. He never became world champion, but three times he played candidates semi-finals. All three times lost Larsen either to a past or to a future world champion.
In the early 60s Larsen diversified his style, switching over to risky and unusual openings in some of his games, to try to throw his opponents off balance; this led to the recovery of his form and further development of his chess.
He experimented with e.g. Bird's Opening (1. f4) and 1.b3, which is called the Larsen Opening or the Nimzo-Larsen Attack. This year several celebrating events took place in Denmark where the first move 1.b3 was obligatory.
Larsen defeated the seven World Champions who held the title from 1948 to 1985. He won games against Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and Anatoly Karpov.
Larsen reached his top rank in the Elo rating system at the start of 1971, equal third in the world (with Korchnoi, behind Fischer and Spassky) with a rating of 2660. In the same year he famously lost the Candidates semi-final match in Denver 0-6 to Fischer, who went on to win the title.
Larsen later claimed in a Kasparov.com interview (1998) that his one-sided loss to Fischer was due in part to his condition during the match: "The organizers chose the wrong time for this match. I was languid with the heat and Fischer was better prepared for such exceptional circumstances… I saw chess pieces through a mist and, thus, my level of playing was not good."
Together with Fischer, Larsen was clearly the strongest tournament player from the West in the years 1965-1973. Victories include Le Havre 1966, Havana 1967, Winnipeg 1967, Palma de Mallorca 1967, Monte Carlo 1968, Palma de Mallorca 1969, Lugano 1970 and Teesside 1972. In the USSR vs Rest of the World match at Belgrade 1970, he played first board for the World side, ahead of Fischer, and scored 2.5/4 against Spassky and Leonid Stein.
Since the early 1970s, he lived for part of the year in Las Palmas and in Buenos Aires, with his Argentinian-born wife.
Larsen has continued to play occasionally in tournaments to the present day. In 1999 he finished 7th of 10 in the Danish Championship, but in the 2000 event he was forced to withdraw when he became seriously ill with an edema, requiring brain surgery. He has played in only a few tournaments in Buenos Aires since then. In 2008 he playes his first tournament in four years, and avoiding theory in every game, the famous Dane only played very exotic openings and scored 0 out of 9.
For his 75th birthday the Danish Chess Federation produced a beautiful 64 page account of his career in Danish in PDF format which you can download here.
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Goodbye Bent.
I always admired your unique style.
You belong to the small company of the true chess artists.
Daniele Vocaturo and I met Bent in 2009, a few weeks before Peter Heine Nielsen shot his pictures at his home. We spoke for an entire afternoon and I collected probably one of my most interesting interviews ever.
Unfortunately the year 2010 was (and is) rather complicated for me and I never found the time to edit the material, even though I had promised it to a couple magazines.
I'll try to make up for the lost time now, in memory of a wildly intelligent mind.
This is SO sad!! RIP Larsen. Goodbye from Denmark :-(
RIP Bent..Shining star of the Chess universe
A great fighter and original player. A sad loss. Anyone knows if an English version of the PDF document is available?
One of the best chess books I ever read as a child and helped me a lot
was Bent Larsen Master of Counter-Attack. His comments were always
a lot of fun to read.
Had the good fortune to see him play at the Caird Hall in Dundee many years ago. thanks for the memories. Still trying to play the Larsen variation of the semi-slav. Eliza.
@Nima: There's no translation as far as I know (It would be a lot of work to do so, but certainly worthwhile). New in Chess 4/2010 had an several-page article which overlapped a bit with the danish version.
Google translator lets you upload such pdf files and translates the text to English (formatting/images lost though)
He is my favourite player. His games... original, his style ...unique, his comments ...entertaining, his ideas ...deep, his passion for the game... unlimited.
Now you can cross swords again with Bobby, and crush him!
Thanks Bent you will be missed.
A great loss. He was a remarkable man and player, and a great chess writer. One of the last of the Romantics, together maybe with Timman, Belyavsky and Morozevich in the modern era. The world has become a little poorer with the passing away of Bent Larsen.
It is perhaps unfair that he will be known for his fiasco against Fischer, but he contributed so much in terms of opening understanding and challenged traditional thinking with his novel approach to openings.
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Thank you.
You were a true giant in the chess world.
My thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, family and many friends. I am grateful for the many hours of joy he gave me in playing over his masterpieces. He will be sorely missed.
RIP Mr Larsen: Probably my favorite piece of chess writing is the chapter you wrote for "How To Open A Chess Game", which somehow manages to be insightful, idiosyncratic, humorous and delightful!
We argentinians were honored to welcome players like Najdorf, and later on Larsen. He was really a great, and it's very sad that he's left us. Rest in peace Bent
RIP Bent!!! All the guys are open wide there to you.
Just keep playng in your unique style.
Bent, could be that your body could not stand it any longer. That ´is it. Never mind, Bent, you will live in our minds as long as there is chess. AND...as long as there are still frank, outspoking people, who dot want to be put in convienent boxes.
Bent was just Bent! No one over, no under, no one at his level.
Could you please link to other sites (as you'd done when Lilienthal resigned)?
For example, Spraggett's blog has a very good (personal) article on Larsen (http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.com/).
I was in the audience for Games 4 and 6 of Fischer-Larsen in Denver and later met him at IM Watson's Chess House in 1974 in Denver. I played Larsen's Opening thousands of times based on the analysis of Gligoric in Chess Life and Review. Watson told Larsen Brian likes to use his rookpawns a lot like him. Just last month I remembered how Larsen said, 1 ...c5 wins a pawn against Ken Smith so I beat the Smith-Morra Gambit of Ted Doykos. Larry Turner just sent me Larsen's selected games last month. I remember Bent had a hude noggin and wondered if big brains needed big houses like Mr. Potato Head. The totally uncompromising spirit of Fischer and Larsen shook up the Russians and even today people always admire pure fighters that always hate draws like Topalov, Ivanchuk, Ponomariev, etc. RIP Bent Larsen and let's all take care of his loyal wife of 30 years.
Bent Larsen was the first GM I saw in my life. I saw him during Nordic Chess Championship 1992 in Östersunds / Sweden.
He was talking to one of local organizers in Danish. I realized that he was very polite and humble during the conversation. At that time I was new to the chess and had no Idea who this man was. I felt it was remarkable that he was the oldest GM among others. Strangely I was feeling that he would have won that championship only if he had been younger. Later years when I read more about Larsen I knew the first impression had been right.
Good biography.
Win against Anand 1992 is missing:
I will miss the monthly article in skabladet. I always used to read it at first.
"... Over the next 45 years Larsen won numerous international competitions, including three Interzonal tournaments: Amsterdam 1964, Sousse 1967 and Biel 1976. For many years it was generally agreed that he was the world's best tournament player...."
I remember In 1967, Havana, Bent Larsen won the VI Edition "Capablanca in Memoriam". (The Capablanca Memorial is a tournament commemorating José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (1888–1942), the greatest Cuban chess master, who was World Champion from 1921 to 1927.)
And he played in 17th Chess Olympiad: Havana 1966. I remember his game with GM Florin Gheorghiu (Romania) that time.
RIP Bent Larsen.
At one of my very first chess tounaments in 1975, I purchased from a vendor the book 'How to Open a Chess Game,' which is now out of print. I read it immediately. While there is much to recommend the book, at the time I was particularly impressed by Bent Larsen's chapter. For whatever reason, I've recently spotted various references to and quotes from that chapter in current articles and books. I was somewhat surprised that, after so many years, I vividly recalled every reference and quote I encountered. Because of these reminders, I dug out the book and reread the entire thing. After this review, I'm inclined to say that Larsen's chapter is the most provocatively brilliant piece of chess writing that I have ever encountered. Period. Full stop. No qualifications. Perhaps the most famous argument from this chapter is that White's trade his of d-pawn for Black's c-pawn in the Sicilian is justified only by White banking on Black falling for a cheap trick. If that goal is unsuccessful or unrealistic, the pawn trade is strategically unsound. This is just one of the many gems in this sparkling essay, so many of which have informed my opinions for lo these many years. Larsen will long be remembered not only as a formidable player, but also as a ingeniously profound thinker.
Bent stayed a week with us in London in 1989. A lovely charming funny and reflective man. Sorrow is with us, goodbye Bent.
Bent Larsen's name will continue to be repeated by all people all over the world, his games will be used for analysis and recreational purposes and his legacy will live on as long as their is life on earth, and a tournament bearing his name will soon be put on! May his life of chess inspire us to achieve greatest in the feats of life.
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