The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ...… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification. — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
![“Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200…” quote by Emanuel Lasker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cbf/emanuel-lasker-13485_achieve_having-spent-200-hours-on-the-above-the_1661503.jpg)
