"Vanity should never tempt a player to engage……" — Emanuel Lasker
"Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills."
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42 Quotes by Emanuel Lasker
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When you see a good move, look for a better one.
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
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I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
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In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
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The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
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Chess is, above all, a fight.
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By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal…
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A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in…
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I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed
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Without error there can be no brilliancy
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The hardest game to win is a won game
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The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind
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