Exeter Chess Club Stories: A threat to Nimzovitch

Before his game with X, Lasker approaches the tournament director, pleading with him to ask X to refrain from smoking cigars during their game. The tournament director goes to X and requests his compliance and X agrees. The game begins and shortly thereafter X removes a cigar from his pocket and places it on the table. A few minutes go by and then Nimzovich again approaches the tournament director, who notices that the cigar is just sitting on the table and says to Nimzovich: "What's the problem? X is not smoking." Nimzovich: "Yes, but he is threatening to smoke, and any fool knows that the threat is more powerful than the execution"

  MaxB

  P.S.
Who is X?

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