 A report shortly after the end of the match appears to speculate that Schlechter threw the last game because a narrow victory for him would not have been in the financial interests of either player, as they would have had to play another match if Schlechter won narrowly, but they had not been able to get adequate financial backing for the 1910 match.Another interpretation, offered separately by Luděk Pachman and Larry Evans, is that Schlechter simply did not play the final game well.Pachman writes, ""both players were labouring under such nervous stress that their power of judgment was not working as well as it normally did.""