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Subject: Re: What do you know about Academy 6.0 Office?

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 13:22:23 01/23/01

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On January 23, 2001 at 15:34:12, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>On January 23, 2001 at 12:36:35, Martin Schubert wrote:
>
>>On January 23, 2001 at 08:44:05, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>My personal devil is tempting me with the purchase of academy Office 6,0. The
>>>pro version with 23 modules is not cheap: around 190 bucks or so. At the same
>>>time I recall a comment by Frank K. that was very exciting. Seems that this
>>>beast uses a very strong engine and that the engine uses a database for every
>>>part of the game. Now, is there any people here with a more specific review of
>>>this program? I mean: it is worthy the expense?
>>>Regards
>>>Fernando
>>
>>I think it's worse the money if you use the moduls and if you are interested in
>>playing games with different engines. Chess academy is very fast in searching.
>>Do you understand german? I'm writing a review for the next issue of ChessBits.
>>
>>Regards, Martin
>
>I presume "worse" is in fact "worth". And no, I do not understand a shit of
>german I am afraid. That's the reason I asked info here. What excites me more is
>the engine. New, a novelty. It is so strong as some has said it is?

I don't know what someone said and I have played only a few games. So I may be
wrong but my 1st impression is that the engine has not quite the level of
Shredder-Fritz-Tiger.

Uli
>Fernando



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