Emanuel Lasker
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Emanuel Lasker (1868-12-24 – 1941-01-11) was a German-born chess grandmaster, mathematician and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years.
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[edit] Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925)
New York: Dover, 1960
- On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of lies; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrites.
- p. IX and 235 in the 1960 Dover edition; p. 183 in the 2008 edition
- Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result...Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.
- p. 337
- Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...
- p. 337
- 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.
- p. 338
- He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess...the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.
- p. 338
