Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that … - Hans Kmoch

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Hans Kmoch

Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.

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