Emanuel Lasker Quotes

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• When you see a good move, look for a better one.
• Without error, there is no brilliancy.
• I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
• In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
• The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
• Chess is, above all, a fight.
• By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be -…
• A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the…
• I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed
• Without error there can be no brilliancy
• The hardest game to win is a won game
• The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind
• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long
• The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of…
• Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole…
• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in…
• Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...
• In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess,…
• On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too…
• Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired…

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