A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Steiner

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Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a...

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