Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 08:54:32 10/17/04
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On October 16, 2004 at 05:11:06, George Sobala wrote: >available start of November. > >From Viktor (the producer of CA8): > >Among the main features are > >1) Chess Tiger 2004 is included. Delfi engine is added into standard package. > >2) An access to the opening encyclopedia is improved thanks to a new >revolutionary mode - Opening Tables, which presents the theoretical material in >a familiar form of the encyclopedic table and allows you to replay the opening >lines on the chessboard. You can annotate theoretic lines using a new facility >for adding\editing variations. The Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2004 mode includes >rich theoretical material on all the openings, more than 8,000 annotations from >GM Kalinin and 500,000 expert evaluations to key opening positions. > >2) Internet Chess Assistant Club mode (russianchessclub.com) - playing through >the Internet for free, scheduled tournaments with prizes (from blitz to >correspondence), chess training, special chess mail service, Internet access to >databases, online-support for CA8 customers, etc. > >3) The possibilities of searching and accessing the databases are greatly >improved thanks to the new search mode - the Composite search. Here you can find >over 100 chess criteria built-in into Chess Assistant's search facility, which >facilitate you orientation in various stages of the chess game - opening, >middlegame and endgame. The composite search is based on the extended version of >CQL language (www.rbnn.com/cql/). > >4) A new players' multimedia Encyclopedia includes images of 800 top players, as >well as data organized by year\tournament; this is also an excellent device >accessing databases for players' games. > >5) The Chess Assistant development staff have created a video course of several >flash animation videos. This course is designed to support the user's work and >the Chess Assistant documentation. We hope that it will help you to find answers >to your questions and solutions to some of the problems that you may encounter >while working with Chess Assistant. > >6) Huge database of 2,675,000 games (by October 1, 2004); 24,000 commented >games. > >7) Game Service 2004-2006: 2,500 games free available every week via the >Internet. > >8) CAP with 28,000,000 positions, Correspondence database and Nalimov DVD (in >Mega package.) Wow -- lots of features. Any chance this product is available for either Linux or Mac OS X ? Their web page does not yet seem to have CA 8 info available. Roy
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