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LAW & HISTORY > US literary critic, educator, scholar > George Steiner
Chess may be...
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Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Source: Fields of Force, Viking 74
-- George Steiner, (Apr 23 1929-2020), French-born US literary critic, educator, scholar; His works include Language and Silence, 1963 and Fields of Force, 1974.