Quotes by Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker

… in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.

Giving

Laughing

Views

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.

Chess Game

Fighting

Games

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in–a fight.

Art

Delight

Fighting

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

Independent

Judging

Thinking

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

Chess

Genius

Player

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

Fighting

Long

Mistake

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

Chance

Masters

Playing 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.

Chess

Might

Problem

Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (…) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

Cheer

Memories

Order

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.

Chess

Effort

Endeavour

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Quotes by Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker

… in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.

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.

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in–a fight.

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

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

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

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

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.

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.

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