When the Mir space station crashes to earth on Friday, Fritz will die with it. His friends will mourn the loss. Fritz won't know the difference. When Mir enters the Earth's atmosphere in a blazing ball of flame, Fritz will simply melt. Make the cosmonauts happy.
Pictures tell the story of just how much happiness the chess program brought to the cosmonauts.
But always, Fritz kept on playing. Soon, there will be no more Fritz. Both the Fritz CD-ROM and the Fuji notebook were left behind when the cosmonauts evacuated. There just wasn't any room on the ship. We're sorry, Fritz.