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

— Emanuel Lasker

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German World Chess Champion and grandmaster, contract bridg… 1868–1941

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“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

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