The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not. Emanuel Lasker More Quotes by Emanuel Lasker More Quotes From Emanuel Lasker To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight. Emanuel Lasker bishops stronger knights Without error, there is no brilliancy. Emanuel Lasker errors chess Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win. Emanuel Lasker player winning loss I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed Emanuel Lasker knights principles law An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages. Emanuel Lasker multitudes advantage important In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated. Emanuel Lasker playing-chess chance masters The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions. Emanuel Lasker process chess mean Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination. Emanuel Lasker imagination truth moving Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. Emanuel Lasker delight fighting art Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died. Emanuel Lasker player littles world When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he can see the slightest chance of creating an attack. Yet sound strategy often demands that you submit to the opponent's will so as to strengthen your weaknesses and get rid of defects in your game. Emanuel Lasker creating weakness games If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken. Emanuel Lasker quality pain chance To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification. Emanuel Lasker strategy sound chess On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long Emanuel Lasker truth long lying You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results. Emanuel Lasker names memories order The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player. Emanuel Lasker player adventure men Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills. Emanuel Lasker vanity player loss On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too thin, too puny for such an end. Reti's explanations, wherever they are concerned with an analysis which covers a few moves, are correct and praiseworthy. But when he abandons the foundations of analysis in order to draw too bold, too general a conclusion, his arguments prove to be mistaken. Emanuel Lasker games order moving The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain. Emanuel Lasker chess brain ideas 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. Emanuel Lasker falling-in-love games play
