Emanuel Lasker Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• The hardest game to win is a won game

  Emanuel Lasker

  Success, Winning, Games

• I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

  Emanuel Lasker

  Knights, Law, Principles

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• Without error there can be no brilliancy

  Emanuel Lasker

  Beauty, Errors, Chess

• When you see a good move, look for a better one.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Inspirational, Sports, Moving

• To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Chess, Sound, Strategy

• The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Moving, Law, Choices

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.77, SCB Distributors

• Chess is, above all, a fight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fighting, Chess

• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

  Emanuel Lasker

  Truth, Lying, Long

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation

• Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Independent, Thinking, Judging

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.337, Courier Corporation

• 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, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Might, Chess, Problem

• By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Art, Fighting, Delight

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation

• The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Learning, Intelligent, Player

• I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Genius, Chess

• The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

  Emanuel Lasker

  Moving, Player, Thinking

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.167, Courier Corporation

• The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Adventure, Player, Men

• Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Loss, Winning, Player

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.560, SCB Distributors

• I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Beauty, Believe, Creative

• To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Knights, Stronger, Bishops

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.131, Courier Corporation

• He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mistake, Vanity, Self

  "Lasker's Manual of Chess". Book by Emanuel Lasker, Published in New York: Dover, p. 338, 1960.

• Without error, there is no brilliancy.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Errors, Chess

• 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 opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fighting, Games, Chess Game

• In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Playing Chess, Chance, Masters

• 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.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Loss, Player, Vanity

• The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fate, Games, Drawing

• By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Queens, Moving, Sacrifice

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