Junior wins Computer Chess World Championship
01.06.2006
– The Israeli program Junior – authors Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky – won the 14th World Computer Chess Championship, which was held as a side event of the Chess Olympiad in Turin. Junior scored 9/11. Second was Shredder with 8.5/11, third Rajlich with the same score. Results and pictures.
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14th World Computer Chess Championship
The computer chess world championship in Turin
The winning team in action: Amir Ban (left) and Shay Bushinsky (right)
A key game between Rajlich (Rybka) and Shredder
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, the author of Shredder
Vas Rajlich, the author of Rybka (playing in Turin as "Rajlich")
Shay Bushinsky of the victorious Junior team
This was Junoir's fifth win of a world computer championship in this millennium.
Incidentally, almost all contenders were running on parallel machines. Zappa,
the former world champion, had a 512 processor super-computer calculating 100
million nodes per second.
 Final
standings
Place |
Name |
Raing |
Score |
Buchh. |
1 |
Junior |
2800 |
9 |
70.5 |
2-3 |
Shredder |
2810 |
8.5 |
68.5 |
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Rajlich |
2820 |
8.5 |
62.5 |
4 |
Zappa |
2830 |
7.5 |
73.0 |
5-7 |
Spike |
2760 |
6.5 |
64.0 |
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DIEP |
2680 |
6.5 |
62.5 |
|
Jonny |
2650 |
6.5 |
62.5 |
8-9 |
Crafty |
2700 |
6 |
73.0 |
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Ikarus |
2660 |
6 |
58.0 |
10-11 |
IsiChess |
2500 |
5.5 |
60.5 |
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Delfi 4.6 |
2450 |
5.5 |
59.5 |
12-13 |
Chiron |
2400 |
5 |
59.5 |
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ParSos |
2620 |
5 |
53.5 |
14 |
Uragano3d |
2100 |
3.5 |
54.0 |
15 |
Chaturanga |
1900 |
2.5 |
53.0 |
16 |
LION++ 1.5 |
2670 |
2 |
28.5 |
17 |
FIBChess |
2000 |
1.5 |
55.0 |
18 |
ETABETA |
1440 |
0.5 |
56.0 |
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