I thought the same thing with Lex, when I was a kid, I realized that there are lots of geniuses in the world that were wasted due to Chess, not just plain genius but super geniuses,(reply>), @iorekby anyone on the top of their field makes good money, but how about the super geniuses below him? A youtuber who comments about chess makes more money than the player,(reply>), I think that comment is taken a bit out of context. Fischer was de-crying the innovations in computational chess that were emerging at that time, and that chess was becoming hateful because machines were slowly killing creativity in the game.<br><br>It sounded like he hated what the thought chess was becoming.,(reply>), @Magnus Carlsen Magnus Carlsen, the man who makes 6 or 7 figures a year from chess, does not agree chess is a waste of life ha ha.,(reply>), @Magnus Carlsen or at least helps discover geniuses.,(reply>), I think chess creates geniuses not waste them