Emanuel Lasker > Quotes

“When you see a good move, look for a better one”
― Emanuel Lasker

“Without error there can be no brilliancy”
― Emanuel Lasker

“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 sorrows, is named 'combination'.”
― Emanuel Lasker

“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 story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.”
― Emanuel Lasker

“By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principle characteristic seems to be—what human nature mostly delights in—a fight.”
― Emanuel Lasker, Common Sense in Chess

“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 a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.”
― Emanuel Lasker

“Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.”
― Emanuel Lasker, Common Sense in Chess

“I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.”
― Emanuel Lasker

“You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods. The method produces numerous results”
― Emanuel Lasker