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.
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.
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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