A critical examination of some of Emanuel Lasker’s writings, which show him in a less flattering light than usually shines on him in chess literature. These include his Vossische Zeitung columns of August-October 1914, his tract. The Self-Deceptions of our Enemies, excerpts from his philosophical works Struggle and Die Philosophie des Unvollendbar (The Philosophy of the Unattainable). his rude 1939 exchange with Jacques Mieses, and a selection of his worst analytical errors from various books and magazine articles.