Emanuel Lasker: Chess

Emanuel Lasker was German World Chess Champion and grandmaster, contract bridge player, mathematician, and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on chess.

Emanuel Lasker: 16 quotes 5 likes

“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

Education , Dead

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

Emanuel Lasker

Others
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]

Perfection

“Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judgement. Chess must not be memorized, simply because it is not important enough… Memory is too valuable to be stocked with trifles.”

Emanuel Lasker

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. 337

Education , Thinking , Memory

“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

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. 337

Education , Effort , Time