33 Quotes by Emanuel Lasker

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

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

The hardest game to win is a won game.

Without error there can be no brilliancy.

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.

Chess is, above all, a fight.

The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.