Kotov Syndrome
This refers to a particular type of blunder. After thinking for a long time over a complicated position, without being able to find a clear path, short of time, a player is then prone to make a blunder.
It was named after
Alexander Kotov, a Soviet chess GM. He first described the phenomenon in his book 'Think like a Grandmaster'.
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