Author: Pete Galati
Date: 07:48:31 11/16/99
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On November 16, 1999 at 10:10:17, Ritter Rost wrote: >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? It might end up being the first Chess program to burn up on re-entry. I've allways wondered if there were any recorded Chess games played between people in outer space (I don't mean the crap they throw into the Star Trek shows). Pete
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