Milan Vidmar & two opposing views

Peter Doggers has written a report about the recently concluded 20th Vidmar Memorial tournament, won by Andrei Volokitin. It includes the following information about Milan Vidmar:

The Netherlands had Max Euwe, Germany had Emanuel Lasker and Slovenia had Milan Vidmar (1885–1962). In those days chess was usually not a profession, and Vidmar had his own career as well. He was a doctor in mechanical engineering and worked at the University of Ljubljana. The Electric Power Research Institute there still bears his name.

But of course Vidmar was also an absolute top class player in the first couple of decades of the 20th century. He played for the top prizes among bigger names such as Capablanca, Alekhine and Rubinstein.

Vidmar was one of the players who was awarded the grandmaster title by FIDE in 1950 for being recognized as having been world class when at their peak. In the same year, Vidmar was the chief arbiter at the Olympiad in Dubrovnik; he was also the arbiter at the 1948 world championship tournament in Moscow.

That's more than enough for a memorial tournament, isn't it?

I had to laugh, for I remembered what Jan Timman had to say about an earlier version of this tournament in his book The Art of Chess Analysis (originally Het groot analyseboek in Dutch):

The Vidmar Memorial Tournament is held every two years. For some reason or other, the fifth in the series, in 1979, attracted me immediately. Not that I have ever played through a game of Vidmar's - at least, never a game he won; but probably I have seen a number of his losses printed among the collected games of Alekhine, Capablanca, and Euwe. Frankly, this splendid tournament is a rather exaggerated mark of honour for a not very brilliant chess player. - (pg. 185)

Incidentally, The Art of Chess Analysis is available from Amazon for $8.53 - a steal! I highly recommend this book - unless, of course, you are a big fan of Milan Vidmar! 

Added: I decided to see if I could find a game Vidmar won in any of my printed books. The obvious place to start was 500 Master Games of Chess by Tartakower & du Mont. Sure enough, they've got seven games of Vidmar's in the collection - and he lost the first six of them! But the seventh game (from Berlin, 1918) was a game he won, as Black, against no less worthy an opponent than Rubinstein. Not only that, Tartakower & du Mont claim this game featured the first use of the Budapest Defense in a "Master's Tournament". The link takes one to the site ChessGames.com. In the comments (which are worth a read) they mention that this was Vidmar's most famous won, his second most famous being a win against Max Euwe! But in Timman's defense, few players put games they lost in their games collections, Fischer being the most famous counter-example.