Tim Frohlick (CTF poster) obituary

[Graham Banks]

https://obituaries.neptunesociety.com/o ... k-10578422

I hadn't realized that he'd died.

[Steve Maughan]

Oh wow — neither had I. He was quite a character. I connected to him on Facebook. An eccentric chap with a good heart.

RIP Tim

[Damir]

RIP Tim. I have not seen him on facebook for months. I assumed something must have happened to him, since he was no longer there. But I never imagined this.

[mclane]

It was not easy. May he rest in peace.

[rainhaus]

He had his own kind of humor, and I still remember that the whole forum was envious of his wife.
He wrote in his frank and direct way : My wife wants a new chess computer for me for h e r birthday
Where he is now, he will surely be able to play chess with complete abandon and sit in front of a chess computer, which we can only dream of.
With best regards from the old physical world Tim Frohlick
A reader he surely didn't know

A little autobiography:
First, a word about myself.
I was in the United States Air Force as a biomedical science officer at Andrews Air Force Base back in 1980 when my lust for computer chess burgeoned. One of my first computers was Boris the Talking Chess Computer--a relatively primitive and weak player with an ELO rating of 1000 on a good day. As my skills grew, I progressed up the line and one day bought a Mephisto Mondial computer that at last gave me a good game of chess. I believe that the program was written by some Dutchman by the name of Schroder. I was in Nirvana.
Finally, we all got PC computers that were much stronger than those old stand-alone units. One of my first programs was the Genius 2.0 program by Richard Lang back in 1993,again a Mephisto product. That was one heck of a program and even on my old 80486 66Mhz machine it beat me mercilessly.
Time marched on and then there was Rebel 7 and 8 and 9 and 10 and now in all its' glory Rebel 11.
https://www.rebel.nl/timf.htm

[Dann Corbit]

Very sorry to hear this.
Timothy was a very interesting person, with a passion for chess.

[towforce]

Wow - he's been gone for a year and 5 months!

In heaven, he will now know how accurate he was in his signature, which was a quite brilliant 4 line summary of everything (can anybody find this, please?).

In keeping, I will summarise him in 5 words:

"Outspoken, but had a point."

[towforce]

1. Tim's last post: of all things, an obituary for Cock de Gorter - link!

2. His signature is worthy of a retweet:

A New Way Comes Upon Earth.
God is an infinitely variable Constant.
Man marks his ground with ideologies.
Galaxies are the dreidels of God.
War is a punishment for implacability.
Peace flows from forgiveness of sins.