Edward Lasker
Please do not confuse Edward Lasker with Emanuel Lasker !
Biography of Edward Lasker
Edward Lasker (1885-1981) had degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering. He authored The Game of Go (also published as Go and Go Moku), one of the earliest English-language Go books. He was a well-known chess player, too: Aged 75, he became an International Chess Master.
Famous Go Quotes by Edward Lasker
"The rules of go are so elegant, organic and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play go."
tderz I would like to know for once, what Lasker really has said. I quoted him as well several times, however never directly. Who has the oldest and/or most reliable source? BTW, I thought until now that it was Emanuel who said something like this. It is not easy to verify, because the number of hits on the internet does not prove much.