Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 17:14:08 01/23/01
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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 Hi Fernando, I have tried the previous version of Academy and found it an excellent program, some sort of Chess Office. Here's what I wrote about it almost a year ago: 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/ Hope this helps a little :) Regards from my family, and, most of all Alexandra. *** Djordje
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