Emanuel Lasker Quotes about Chess

Without error there can be no brilliancy

Without error there can be no brilliancy

Beauty, Errors, Chess

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

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

Emanuel Lasker

Player, Genius, Chess

Chess is, above all, a fight.

Emanuel Lasker

Fighting, Chess

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

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

Emanuel Lasker

Chess, Sound, Strategy

Without error, there is no brilliancy.

Emanuel Lasker

Errors, Chess

The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain.

Emanuel Lasker

Ideas, Brain, Chess

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

Emanuel Lasker

Effort, Chess, Endeavour

"Lasker's Manual of Chess". Book by Emanuel Lasker, Published in New York: Dover, p. 337, 1960.

Emanuel Lasker Quotes about Chess

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