Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 19:16:16 04/09/01
Hi to all hands: From this lovely site Gambitchess - kind of a treasure chest, the dream of a child- I downloaded Fritz 2 and it was like riding in the time machine to happy days 10 years ago. I suppose Fritz 2 is present in one of my current Fritz crop as an aditional engine, but I wanted to play it with the old Gui and I was very pleased to do so. Fritz has been part of my afection and chess computer obsession since the first version, but it has been also part of my life. Ten years ago I had a strong fight with a dear friend one day of two before his trip to Germany, so when he cameback he loudly -for me to lesson- said to a common friend that he had got Fritz 1, but he had brought just one copy. I was working two or three computers away and so I heard that clearly and I understood the message, but then I commented that I did not care a shit because I have just got "Herman Goering 2.0" and so both laughed and frienship was restaured. Well, is funny to play the beast after all these years. You can forget everything about strategy and go for tactics, the elemental pleasure of sheer calculation and daring and mistakes and the smell of blood at every corner. So I did and I got big pleasure. Really, it is amusing. The program throw a punch, you do the same and the score goes from minus to plus at each moment. You never know -if playing in that way- what is going to happen in the next five moves. Finally I got the full point, but it could be the opposite. If you just survive to the ending, there is good chance to crush the beast, but even so is not sure. Yes, this Gambitchess place is great. An easy way to go back and remember. And as a french writer once said, "the duty of man is to remember". Ferenando
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