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Lasker – “Education in Chess needs to be education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized … memory is too valuable to be stocked with trifles ... 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 and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight."