Bobby Fischer invented Fischer random chess. He considered the chess world ossified, hardened into its institutional knowledge and fat and happy without new inventions. (Imagine what he would think about what computers have done to the game since the 1990s.) At the time (and even more so today), chess openings were so specific and known that the first dozen or more moves of all master-level games were simply memorization contests.
Minute Basketball: Square Peg in a Round Hole
Minute Basketball: Square Peg in a Round Hole
Minute Basketball: Square Peg in a Round Hole
Bobby Fischer invented Fischer random chess. He considered the chess world ossified, hardened into its institutional knowledge and fat and happy without new inventions. (Imagine what he would think about what computers have done to the game since the 1990s.) At the time (and even more so today), chess openings were so specific and known that the first dozen or more moves of all master-level games were simply memorization contests.