Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 15:09:31 01/28/01
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On January 28, 2001 at 16:41:00, Mike S. wrote: >On January 28, 2001 at 11:58:17, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>What a horrible cover that Fritz 1 had. Really a collectors item for the ugly >>program box museum! > >Yes, but it has a certain charme, like a horror movie poster from the fifties... >Vincent Price, and Frankenstein's bride in the background. But this was a >special "deluxe" edition by boeder; I think the original CB cover didn't have >much of a picture. > >But in those days, you were lucky if there was a box at all. I have purchased >several chess programs which came in a paper envelope. > >My favorite is the Sargon III cover, with that artistic photo. > >It would be nice to discuss, what is the best chess photo ever... the Cowderoy >website has many examples - but this is off topic. Maybe I start a thread in the >GCF. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl I also like the both the Sargon covers and the Colossus Chess X cover quite a lot. Another thing... What is that man, who obviously has spent most of his time sleeping under a bridge, doing on the Chessmaster covers? Or perhaps its father Christmas comming with another chessprogram to put under the tree. Anyway, it is has always looked pretty satrange to me. Torstein
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