Lasker Chess Quotes
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Lasker Chess Quotes & Sayings
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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
— Emanuel Lasker
Conversation makes one what he is.
— George Herbert
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.
— Emanuel Lasker
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized ...
— Emanuel Lasker
The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.
— Sir Fulke Greville
I hate loneliness, but it loves me.
— Tite Kubo
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
When you see a good move, look for a better one
— Emanuel Lasker
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
— Emanuel Lasker
We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better ... we never get satisfied.
— George Harrison
The hardest game to win is a won game
— Emanuel Lasker
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
— Emanuel Lasker
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.
— Winston Churchill
Hope is sometimes fleeting, but always precious. Sad to say, when the battle began, most of my companions had no hope at all.
— T.A. Barron
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in
a fight. — Emanuel Lasker
a fight. — Emanuel Lasker
Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
— John Dryden
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
— Savielly Tartakower
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
— Delmore Schwartz
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
— Vasily Smyslov
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca