Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player and mathematician, born at Berlinchen in Brandenburg (now Barlinek in Poland).

Quotations

• "Chess is a game restricted to this world, go has something extraterrestrial. If ever we find an extraterrestrial civilisation that plays a game that we also play, it will be go, without any doubt."
• "The acquisition of harmonious education is comparable to the production and the elevation of an organism harmoniously built. The one is fed by blood, the other one by the spirit; but Life, equally mysterious, creative, powerful, flows through either." — from Manual of Chess