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now he only wishes to play one game to see if he was playing real chess in his cell and not merely under delirium

The Austrian then described how once he was fed up with simply repeating the 150 games he already knew by memory he began playing himself in his mind separating himself into a black mind and a white mind and how he fell into a kind of mania that took a heavy toll on him until he was let go by the gestapo during a psychotic episode