Author: Ritter Rost
Date: 07:10:17 11/16/99
http://www.gambitsoft.com/news.htm says: Fritz in Space! DER SPIEGEL reports that Sergej Awdejew, 43, Russian cosmonaut, improved his chess knowledge during his 748 days in space on board the space ship "Mir". After some boring weeks he ordered a chess program from the ground crew which was shipped to him. It was "Fritz" they sent him and he installed it on a Fujitsu notebook. When Awdejew and his colleagues left the rusty "Mir" on August 27 they took the notebook with them, but the "Fritz" box remained on board the station. So when MIR falls to earth one of these days, maybe you are lucky and you can catch a falling FRITZ CD in your garden? - 11/16/99 The Chessbase web site mysteriously ignores this PR story in Germany's biggest news magazine. Maybe they are afraid that Fritz is going to crash soon... Could that be the first chess games ever played aboard a space station?
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