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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger 2004 will be included in Chess Assistant 8 ...

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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