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The Dutch Defence is fundamentally unsound because of the insecure pawn-skeleton, the constant breakthrough-threat e4 or d5 and, in the event of d5, the hole at e5!
Alexander Alekhine, The Book Of The New York International Chess Tournament 1924

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