re: Searching for Bobby Fischer - Underrated Classic

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The movie was made before 9/11, which is fortunate because Fisher had some choice things to say about that as well.

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He also said Chess was overrated (getting back to chess) and that it was just pure memorization of moves and when to use them.

He constantly lamented that there was no creativity in the game when you're playing the big boys.

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I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that.

I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

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Good movie, though mostly about helicopter parents.

The scene of the unruly parents locked in a cage in the basement during a tournament by the organizers, agonizing over every move is sad and hilarious.