Deep Junior 10
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Deep Junior 10 - New World Champion!

Junior 10 is the new 2006 Computer Chess World Champion. The program, written by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shy Bushinsky, narrowly defeated its main rival, the many times world champion program Shredder, at the Computer Chess World Championship which was held during the Chess Olympiad in Turin, Italy. Junior impressed experts with its extraordinary dynamic play, and remained undefeated in this event.

It started with the famous bishop sacrifice on h2 in a match against Garry Kasparov and now has been honed to perfection in Version 10. In spite of their success in computer chess tournaments the programmers of Junior are not primarily concerned with beating other chess programs. Instead they have developed Junior into an instrument that enables human beings to gain new insights and understanding in the game of chess. A good example is the very pronounced understanding of compensation, which allows its users to explore new possibilities of sacrificial attacks and sharp dynamic play.

 Junior 10 offers you 12 months of free access to the Playchess.com server. You also get the latest openings book which is continually enhanced and improved by GM Boris Alterman, a member of the Junior team.

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You're going to love Junior and its tremendous attacking style. Junior shows a new quality of computer chess. It has a deep understanding of initiative and attacking chances and likes to sacrifice material more than any other existing chess program. Many of the world's strongest players already use Junior as their analytical partner. It is considered one of the most reliable tactical programs around.

Junior's unique style is very human-like in that it frequently prefers positional advantages to material. Junior's first debut in the world of computer chess was in the 1995 world championships where it shared the third place with Frenchchess and the Deep Blue prototype. Two years later, Junior won the World Micro Computer Championships title held in Paris, November 1997.

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In August 2000 Deep Junior took part in the Super-GM tournament at Dortmund and went on to score 50 percent - a performance of 2703 ELO - beating amongst others super grandmaster Peter Leko of Hungary. This was the greatest achievement of a computer program to that date.

Among its notable tournament wins are Cadaquï's 2000 and the Internet Computer Chess Championship 2002. Experts all over the world are impressed by the ruthless attacking style of Junior. IM Hannu Wegner writes: "The latest version of Junior has clearly made tremendous progress in tactics and especially in the execution of brilliant kingside attacks." Garry Kasparov, World's number 1, had often praised Junior as a valuable tool for analysis and had elected to use it during his famous match against the world.

The authors of Junior are Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky, both from Israel. A recent issue of the German computer chess magazine Computerschach & Spiele conducted an interview with Amir Ban, which is reproduced at ChessBase with the permission of the author (Christian Liebert).

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pentium III, 128 MB RAM, Win98 SE, Win2000, WinXP, DVD-drive, Soundcard. JUNIOR 10 - on DVD-ROM

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Deep Junior - Tips, Tools and Tactics

To help you get the most out of your Junior we have produced an exclusive ChessCentral mini ebook by noted ChessBase columnist Steve Lopez called Junior/Deep Junior -Tips, Tricks and Tactics.

Here you'll find the insider tips to optimizing your Junior. You won't want to miss these tricks to help Junior run better and stronger

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