Junior 10 - Computer Chess
World Champion 2006
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 sacrifice 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.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pentium III, 128 MB RAM, Win98 SE, Win2000, WinXP, DVD-drive, Soundcard. JUNIOR 10 - on DVD-ROM
What Makes Junior Special
Junior by Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky
is the reigning computer chess world champion in all categories. Junior
is different from all other programs in its search strategies and
evaluation function. This gives the program a very distinctive style of
play.
The special strength of Junior is its
understanding of compensation. The latest version is the culmination of
a development that started with Junior7, the program that shocked Garry
Kasparov with its famous Bishop sacrifice on h2. Moves that looked
purely speculative with Junior7 are proving to be perfectly sound in
Junior10. This makes the program an extraordinarily effective tool for
analyzing sharp and dynamic positions, especially those involving the
sacrifice of material. It is the program that is most likely to
correctly understand the compensation involved, both in the execution
of a sacrifice and the defense against it.
You get the latest training functions
for the opening, middle and endgame; new photo-realistic 3D boards in
custom-designed silver and surreal hot-air balloons. It includes twelve
months of free access to Playchess.com, the world fastest-growing chess
server. And you get the latest Junior tournament book, developed by GM
Boris Alterman, as well as a database of 500,000 high-quality games.
Junior 10 - You've Got to Love it!
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 often preferring positional advantages to material.
Junior’s first debut in the world of computer chess was in the 1995
world championships where it surprisingly shared the third place
together with Frenchchess and with Deep Blue prototype. Two years
later, Junior won the World Micro Computer Championships title held in
Paris, November 1997.
Deep Junior 10 - Double World Champion!
This chess program, written by the
Israelis Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky, has achieved everything it could
wish for. Junior won the Computer Chess World Championship in 2001 and
2002, and it can look back on a string of successes against human
beings in tournaments and matches. Unforgettable was its performance
against Garry Kasparov in the "Man vs Machine" match in New York in
January 2003. With millions of people following on the Internet, double
world champion Junior played exciting, imaginative chess to hold the
world’s strongest player to a 3:3 draw.
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 in official chess tournament history.
Among its notable tournament wins are
Cadaqués 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). |
