“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.” HumansMayLittlesHuman BeingsGeniusUnderstoodLaborChessEnterprisePastime Author:George Steiner
“There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.” HumansAgeThreeHuman BeingsMajorsIntellectualMathematicsChessPursuitFeatsPuberty Book:George Steiner: A Reader Source: George Steiner: A Reader