Author: Mr.Yukio Rokujo
Date: 16:12:08 03/09/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 17:07:30, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >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 I want to know if Chess Academy 2000 contains preinstalled winboard engines like Phalanx,Crafty,Goliath,etc.and they work without difficult procedures of installation from freeware software.
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