Chess Academy Goliath Blitz runs on a standard PC with the operating system Windows® Vista 32bit/XP/2000/NT4/9x/Me.

Chess Academy Goliath Blitz is the comprehensive chess program for all age groups and different levels of play and offers practically all the functions of modern chess software – whether it’s databases, learning and training programs or playing programs.

Chess Academy Goliath Blitz includes a professional database program, interactive learning and training program, very powerful playing program with engine books – as an all-in-one program package at an attractive price. It comes with a Chess Academy professional database with more than 1,769,000 games without duplicates in exceptionally high quality and in its own (compact and extremely fast!) Chess Academy format.

Chess Academy offers beautiful 2D and 3D chess boards and piece sets, different board sizes and color settings, piece animation, special chess symbols, analysis and variation windows. Icon bars and view are individually configurable – pure fun!

The Chess Academy Goliath Blitz program is a complete and reasonably priced application package for the ambitious chess player. Whether data application or management, analysis, computer chess or simply perfect learning and training: the program provides an interesting and professional solution for every application. An ideal chess partner for hobby players, club players and chess professionals!

Chess Academy provides a complete interactive system for enjoying, playing, and studying chess! Chess Academy enables any chess player to rapidly improve his chess skills in an efficient and effective manner. Chess Academy users learn chess and organize their training lessons through active participation and discovery with carefully selected and fully annotated Tutorial & Training Examples, authored by top-class players and experienced coaches.

The implementation of the Goliath Blitz Engine, which thinks at lightning speed and plays and analyzes at the highest world champion level, is impressive. Michael Borgstädt’s Goliath engine is one of the fastest tacticians and proved this impressively by winning the 2001 World Computer Blitz Chess Championship in Maastricht (The Netherlands).

Goliath was also runner-up in the 2002 World Blitz Championship in Maastricht. Goliath prevailed against strong competition on a standard PC. The engine has been further improved since the World Championship and in the current version achieves top speeds of over 2.5 million positions examined per second (on a 1200 MHz PC).

A tournament-proven opening book with approx. 520,000 positions is included with the product. An interactive and comprehensive training program is also included with the product.