Emanuel Lasker Quotes - Page 2

• No te dejes enamorar por el final del juego hasta el punto de excluir partidas enteras. Es bueno tener toda la historia de cómo sucedió; la jugada completa, no sólo el desenlace. No se deje llevar por el trapo y el vodevil del ajedrez.

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  Enamorarse, Juegos, Jugar

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• 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.

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  Truth, Moving, Imagination

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.

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  Fate, Games, Drawing

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• Without error, there is no brilliancy.

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  Errors, Chess

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• The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

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  Player, Games, Giving

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Loss, Player, Vanity

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• Al fin y al cabo, una partida de ajedrez es una lucha en la que hay que aprovechar todos los factores posibles y en la que el conocimiento de las cualidades buenas y malas del adversario es de suma importancia.

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  Fighting, Games, Chess Game

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• El jugador de combinaciones piensa hacia delante; parte de la posición dada, e intenta los movimientos de fuerza en su mente

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  Movimiento, Jugador, Pensamiento

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

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  Mean, Chess, Process

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

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  Knights, Law, Principles

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• En el tablero de ajedrez, las mentiras y la hipocresía no sobreviven mucho tiempo

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  Truth, Lying, Long

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). "Lasker's Manual of Chess", p.9, Courier Corporation.

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• ... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.

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  Views, Giving, Laughing

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• The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

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  Mean, Names, Special

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Beauty, Believe, Creative

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• 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!

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  Queens, Moving, Sacrifice

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• 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.

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  Player, World, Littles

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• La lectura inteligente de buenas partidas no puede dejar de hacer del lector un mejor jugador y un mejor juez del juego de los demás.

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  Intelligent, Player, Games

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• 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.

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  Pain, Quality, Chance

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• 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.

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  Adventure, Player, Men

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• 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.

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  Effort, Chess, Endeavour

  "Lasker's Manual of Chess". Book by Emanuel Lasker, Published in New York: Dover, p. 337, 1960.

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Brain, Chess

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• 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.

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  Moving, Order, Games

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.

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  Moving, Two, Three

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• Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.

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  Two, Three, Variation

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