Sitzfleisch: German for "sitting flesh".Before the introduction of time limits the term was used to describe games where players took an inordinately long time over moves, often in the hope that the opponent would blunder or resign from boredom or, perhaps, die before the end of the game. McDonnell often took one and a half hours or more over a single move in his match with La Bourdonnais. In the London tournament (1851) sitzfleisch was so prevalent that some moves took two and a half hours or more. In the American Congress (1857) Paul Morphy met Louis Paulsen in the final. Paulsen played so slowly that Morphy was reported to have shed tears of frustration while he waited for Paulsen to move. This is hardly surprising, since Paulsen once took eleven hours to make one move! Sitzfleisch was the main reason for the introduction of time limits.