Chess Academy Test & Training Suite

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

Installation of the program, program interface, menu and help in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish.

includes a powerful Chess Academy Database System; a huge Chess Academy database, an improved Chess Academy Tutorial & Training Program; 6 Modules with 750+ annotated and classified tutorial & training examples; strong Chess Academy Playing Program with built-in Engines; a huge Opening Books (Champion & Gambit) and a unique and extended Middlegame Book for Chess Academy engine. Requires CD drive or DVD drive and floppy-disk drive to install.

The materials were licensed from Joachim Beyer Verlag, all these modules are designed by Witali Braslawski.  Installation, Program interface, and Help in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish. Annotations in German. Important notice: There is a stand-alone program, no other software is required.

The chess program offers practically all the functions of modern chess software – whether professional databases, interactive learning and training programs, or powerful game programs.

Included is a professional database with 1,590,744 games without duplicates on its own (compact and extremely fast!) Chess Academy format.

  • The program supports data in PGN and ChessBase (CBF) format and also allows conversion to PGN, RTF, HTML, and EPD
  • The Chess Academy game editor allows all chess games to be annotated (text comments as well as graphical comments)
  • Sophisticated printing options for chess notation/symbols/diagrams
  • Powerful Chess Academy playing program, the program even offers WinBoard support and auto-player support

Clear, robust, and intuitive program interface, easy to handle.

The program provides a variety of very useful exploratory hint tools available to use at any time that you choose. The program monitors your actions and allows convenient navigation through chess windows, game lists, etc. Chess Academy gives you also the opportunity to use your preferred method for operating the graphic interface: with a mouse or with a keyboard. You can also set up the on-screen colors, chessboard size, program language, chess pieces set, and so on. The game editor allows you to comment on all chess games (text comments as well as graphic comments).

Chess Academy offers excellent 2D and 3D boards and piece sets, the size of the board, as well as colors, which can be easily changed, piece animation, special chess symbols, special windows for analyzing purposes and displaying variants, ToolBars icons, and their groups can be easily handled and much more – enjoy at the same time by using Chess Academy® program!

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.

  • CD-ROM or DVD. Packaging: installation instructions in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish languages, customer card.
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Brief description of the included learning and training modules “Test & Training Suite” with the extension “MegaTraining Package”:

The included learning and training modules “Test & Training Suite” (optionally with the extension “MegaTraining Package”) are dedicated to one of the most important problems in a chess game – finding a correct solution in the critical position in the middlegame and endgame.

Chess Academy program package includes:

  • Chess Academy database program, tutorial and training program, playing program and chess engine (Chess Academy Ver. 6, full version)
  • Chess Academy database with 1,590,744 chess games without duplicates in exceptionally high quality
  • 6 “Test & Training Suite” tutorial and training modules
  • Chess Academy chess engine for playing and analyzing
  • Chess Academy opening books for chess engine: “ChampionBook” with approx. 8.5 million positions and GambitBook with approx. 2.2 million positions
  • Chess Academy middlegame book for chess engine with approx. 8 million positions

Powerful Chess Academy program options:

  • plays and analyzes games or game fragments from the chess database
  • plays and analyzes tutorial and training examples, studies, test positions
  • creates, edits and merges opening books for Chess Academy chess engine
  • plays videos (supports AVI, WAV files)
  • opens up to 24 games at the same time, edits game header, extended game information
  • provides player and opening statistics in the chess database with all available information
  • shows variants, key squares, important motifs and plans for any position
  • saves games in the chess database with all variants, text and video/audio comments
  • saves variants of the included analysis engine in the game (auto analysis mode)
  • supports other programs (chess engines), supports Thompson’s endgame databases
  • quickly searches for game header, material, exact position, position outlines and maneuvers
  • quickly sorts all games in the chess database by players, source, time period, ECO, moves
  • allows you to create your own opening key positions and middlegame keys in the chess database
  • merges up to 16 chess databases simultaneously
  • creates and manages huge chess databases with up to 16 million games
  • creates datasets of up to 1,048,480 games from the database according to any selected criteria
  • chess datasets can be merged, intersected, subtracted, or saved as a new database
  • prints out games and tutorial examples with diagrams and comments
  • prints out opening and middlegame keys with diagrams in the chess database
  • prints opening overviews with chess tree-shaped diagrams and much more