Thoughts on the Ages of Go

[trohde]

If you read further …

@StevenageTony

You can’t rely on the AGA’s attribution as definitive, in view of the article you yourself linked above (but via Weiqi To Go), which ends:

Our best go expert sources — Peter Shotwell, Richard Bozulich and Erwin Gerstorfer — have not been able to track down a definitive attribution for this quote. A prize awaits whoever can do so; email us at journal@usgo.org

And no-one has yet shown WHERE anyone of the Laskers is supposed to have written this, nor has, to my knowledge, any witness said that they have heard them say this.