Quote of the day
I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
Walter Benjamin

Born: July 15, 1892
Died: September 26, 1940 (aged 48)
Bio: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic.
Known for:
- Arcades Project
- The Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928)
- Berlin childhood around 1900
- One-way street, and other writings
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