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To add to your point, Fischer was complaining about chess openings going stale 20 years before computers came on the scene
by __s 6y ago
To add to your point, Fischer was complaining about chess openings going stale 20 years before computers came on the scene
- jmcgough 6y agoAfter he fell out of the pro scene he became way more interested in chess variants than vanilla chess (more specifically his Fischer Random Chess). I can't imagine being at the level he was at, where you needed to hundreds or thousands of hours memorizing and practicing openings... so not surprised he appreciated a game that valued more on-the-fly decision making than heavy preparation.
- SenoraRaton 6y agoYou don't actually spend 100,000s of hours memorizing openings. You study the basic opening principles and key variants, but for the most part it comes very naturally. You play 100,000s of hours of chess, and EVERY chess game has an opening.