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GM Lars Karlsson

Full name

Lars Karlsson

Born

1/1/1955 (age 69)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Sweden

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

King's Indian Attack: Yugoslav Variation (56 games)

Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (51 games)

English Opening: King's English Variation (38 games)

King's Indian Attack (29 games)

Bird's Opening: Dutch Variation (26 games)

Black Pieces

Dutch Defense: Fianchetto, Classical, Nimzo-Dutch Variation (29 games)

Queen's Pawn Opening: Horwitz Defense (26 games)

Dutch Defense: Classical Variation (20 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Accelerated Dragon, Maróczy Bind Formation (20 games)

French Defense: Winawer, Advance Variation (18 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Lars Karlsson (2481) Anton Frank (1977)	1-0	45	2024
Lars Karlsson (2481) Vidar Seiger (1796)	1-0	24	2024
Lars Karlsson (2481) Ferdinand Hellers (2418)	0-1	25	2024
Lars Karlsson (2454) A Duenas (1694)	1-0	39	2019
Lars Karlsson (2454) Barys Vainerchuk (2003)	1-0	25	2019
Lars Karlsson (2449) Reynir Helgason (2263)	½-½	28	2019
Lars Karlsson (2472) Artour Belokon (2003)	1-0	59	2018
Lars Karlsson (2448) Hakan Rothen (2264)	½-½	39	2018
Lars Karlsson (2462) Tomas Karlsson (2289)	½-½	52	2018
Lars Karlsson (2448) Normunds Miezis (2416)	1-0	67	2017

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