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Without error, there is no brilliancy.
— Emanuel Lasker
An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.
— Emanuel Lasker
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.
— Emanuel Lasker
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized ...
— Emanuel Lasker
My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.
— Else Lasker-Schuler
The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind
— Emanuel Lasker
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
In Democratic administrations, I visit the White House.
— Mary Lasker
Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.
— Emanuel Lasker
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
— Emanuel Lasker
When you see a good move, look for a better one
— Emanuel Lasker
If you think research is expensive, try disease!
— Mary Lasker
The hardest game to win is a won game
— Emanuel Lasker
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
— Emanuel Lasker
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in
a fight. — Emanuel Lasker
a fight. — Emanuel Lasker
My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed.
— Else Lasker-Schuler
I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
— Emanuel Lasker
Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.
— Else Lasker-Schuler
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Without error there can be no brilliancy
— Emanuel Lasker
As Long as We Can Breathe, We Can Hope.
— Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
A true poet does not say 'azure'; a true poet says 'blue.
— Else Lasker-Schuler
I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed
— Emanuel Lasker
Everything in life is relative.
— Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Without money nothing gets done.
— Mary Lasker
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
— Savielly Tartakower
Please lift your snowy skies
off my soul -
Your diamond dreams
slice through my veins — Else Lasker-Schuler
off my soul -
Your diamond dreams
slice through my veins — Else Lasker-Schuler