Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 14:07:30 03/09/00
I have started exploring Chess Academy 2000 published by the Intelinvest Co. and authored (among others) by Wit Braslawski, Germany and wished to share my initial impressions with CCC members. The program is a complex interactive affair made up of a chess-playing engine, a tutorial and a huge database (about 1.6 million games!). My first impressions are very favourable and this time I will only give a couple of pieces of info on the chess playing program. Chess Academy 5.0 is an original program by Intelinvest that plays strong chess (how strong I will try to find out, but the first impressions indicate about 2550-2600 on a fast 450Mhz computer!) that is highly original in its style. Two features may account for that: first, its enormous opening book (about 11 milion positions) and the very user-friendly opening book editor, and, second, the concept of integration of typical middle-game positions into the middle-game book that has about 8 million typical patterns (typical in the sense that they are not singularly defined positions but rather structural patterns -- the book actually recognises structurally similar setups so that you may be surprised finding out that on move, say 21, the program comes up with a "book" move from its middle-game book!). There are many more features in Chess Academy: both the tutorials and the database are impressive, and I will try to review them soon in detail. The pages to find out more about the program: http://www.chessacademy.de/ *** Djordje
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