Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 09:31:32 04/10/01
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On April 09, 2001 at 22:16:16, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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". I surmise u have to boot into DOS to bigger hash? > >Ferenando
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