“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

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