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Subject: Re: Ches "Pros" Arrogance According to Oscar Wilde

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 12:18:23 06/11/04

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On June 11, 2004 at 15:07:05, steven blincoe wrote:

>
>>Communism impoverished us, but that's another story.
>>Thank God, it's over for 15 years but I lived the first 30 years
>>of my life in it.
>>Yes, without dedicated chess computers :-(
>
>tell me Mihaly..when you were living under Soviet rule..how did you learn of a
>computer like the Mephisto Bavaria?
>
>i would think that this computer was unavaiable behind the Iron Curtain?
>
>Best
>Steve

They were available at the and of the eighties but costed a fortune...
So we browsed the prospectus.

(The living standard and the personal freedom was much better here in
Hungary than in the Soviet Union. We could even travelled to Western
countries in every 3 years! With empty pocket, of course...)

Best
Mihaly



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