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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Emanuel Lasker

  Playing Chess, Chance, Masters

• 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

• 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 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Two, Special

• The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mean, Names, Special

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.62, Courier Corporation

• The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mean, Chess, Process

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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