Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 05:53:30 10/15/99
I have just completed the translation of Chess Academy 2000 to Italian, this is
a summary of the new features it will have (the program is in beta test now, and
should be on the shelves in late fall):
- the program is now 3 programs in one: database, tutorial and engine (for
analysis and play);
- the engine is a brand new one developed by Intelinvest with several years of
work;
- the engine support also a new tree format for the books which should catch
transpositions;
- the program comes with a book editor;
- and it comes with 3 books: 2 for the opening and 1 for middlegame/endgame
the 2 opening books are:
- general (some ~8.000.000 positions with a lot of evaluations and similar
to Rebel EOC in concept);
- a gambit book for training purposes;
- the middlegame book is used by the engine for positions to approach or to
avoid (this is a new concept for me, I've never heard of any program doing this
before, but may be it is just me that don't know);
- the program supports WinBoard engines as well as RS2323 Autoplayer;
- the engine also uses tablebases;
- the engine is also highly customizable: style can be selcted, strenght
chaneged, or fine details of the evaluation can be tweeked (pieces value,
positional factors);
- it is possible to convert games in HTML or RTF for publishing;
- key handling has been significantly improved;
- games quality was also improved, removing the fuzzy dubles;
- windows 9x/NT/2000 ready
I will let you know more as soon as I get my copy of the beta. But if all this
is true, this seems to be one of the most complete pieces of software around,
integrating real database functionality, with a playing program and GM prepared
tutorials, only missing, may be, chess server connectivity.
This time it will be harder to force it to remain hidden in a corner....
regards
Franz
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