Author: Pierre Bourget
Date: 07:53:52 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? Perhaps the first in space against a chess program but russian cosmonauts must certainly had played between themselves before.He is the first game played between space and earth in 1970. Soyuz9(Sevastianov+Nikolayev) - Earth(Gen.Kamanin+Gorbatko) [D20] Space-USSR, 1970 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 e5 4.Bxc4 exd4 5.exd4 Nc6 6.Be3 Bd6 7.Nc3 Nf6 8.Nf3 0–0 9.0–0 Bg4 10.h3 Bf5 11.Nh4 Qd7 12.Qf3 Ne7 13.g4 Bg6 14.Rae1 Kh8 15.Bg5 Neg8 16.Ng2 Rae8 17.Be3 Bb4 18.a3 Bxc3 19.bxc3 Be4 20.Qg3 c6 21.f3 Bd5 22.Bd3 b5 23.Qh4 g6 24.Nf4 Bc4 25.Bxc4 bxc4 26.Bd2 Rxe1 27.Rxe1 Nd5 28.g5 Qd6 29.Nxd5 cxd5 30.Bf4 Qd8 31.Be5+ f6 32.gxf6 Nxf6 33.Bxf6+ Rxf6 34.Re8+ Qxe8 35.Qxf6+ Kg8 ½–½ Pierre
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