Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

- Emanuel Lasker

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

- Emanuel Lasker

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

- Emanuel Lasker

Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease …

- Emanuel Lasker

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

- Emanuel Lasker

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 dif…

- Emanuel Lasker

The hardest game to win is a won game

- Emanuel Lasker

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 an…

- Emanuel Lasker

Without error there can be no brilliancy

- Emanuel Lasker