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When you see a good move, look for a better one. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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I have added these principles to the law : get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 3 |
Without error there can be no brilliancy. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 4 |
Chess is above all, a fight! |
Emanuel Lasker |
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The hardest game to win is a won game. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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The combination player thinks forward. he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 7 |
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 8 |
In chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 9 |
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice : you have to move whether you like it or not. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 10 |
On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not last long. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 11 |
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 12 |
By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 13 |
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither. but its principal characteristic seems to be what human nature mostly delights in a fight. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 14 |
By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever ! |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 15 |
Chess is, above all, a fight. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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| 16 |
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 |
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He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster. |
Emanuel Lasker |
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