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

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; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.”

Emanuel Lasker

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. 338

“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 leads to standstill or to anarchy.”

Emanuel Lasker

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. 338

“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 the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.”

Emanuel Lasker

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. IX and 235 in the 1960 Dover edition; p. 183 in the 2008 edition

“Although the adage "If you find a good move, look for a better one" is often attributed to Lasker, it actually dates earlier.”

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Source: The Chess Player's Chronicle (January 1878), vol. 2, no. 13, page 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=xjACAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false: Annotation by William Wayte (1829-1898): "Still flying at high game, in accordance with the rule, "When you see a good move look out for a better." "
Source: "[I]t is necessary always to bear in mind these prudential rules, viz.: having a good move, to seek for a better." Dominico Ercole del Rio, <i>The Incomparable Game of Chess</i>, trans. J.S. Bingham (London 1820), 35-36. Note Bingham incorrectly credits Ercole del Rio with work that was authored by Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani

“Put two players against each other who both have perfect technique, who both avoid weaknesses, and what is left?—a sorry caricature of chess.”

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Source: [Andrew Soltis, Soltis, Andy, The Great Chess Tournaments and Their Stories, 133, New York 1927 • The End of Chess?, 1975, Chilton Book Company, 0-8019-6138-6]