Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 17:26:19 03/09/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 19:12:08, Mr.Yukio Rokujo wrote: >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. Yes, Chess Academy 2000 supports many Winboard engines and offers already ready made config files for over twenty of these. Naturally, Crafty, Phalanx, Goliath, Anmon, Arasan, Zchess etc. are all there. Installing them is very easy.
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