33 Quotes by Emanuel Lasker

While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius – Capablanca!

In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...