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This chess program, written by the Israelis Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky,
has achieved everything it could wish for. Deep Junior won the Chess World
Championship in 2001 and 2002, and it can back on a string of success
against human beings in tournaments and matches. This culminated in an
unforgettable performance against Garry Kasparov during the “Man vs.
Machine” match in New York in January 2003. With millions of people
following on the Internet, double world champion Deep Junior played
exciting and imaginative chess to hold the world’s strongest player to a
3:3 draw. Deep
Junior is the world's first commercial chess program
to run on machines with two or more processors. On a dual processor board
it searches about 1.8 times faster than on a standard PC. The program is
based on Junior 6, the latest improvement on the 1997 Microcomputer World
Champion. Junior is a powerful positional player praised by grandmasters
like Vladimir Kramnik for its subtle strategical understanding. The
program profits from the close contact of its authors to the leading
Israeli players. Boris Alterman was Kasparov's second in his internet
match against the world and contributed major parts of the analysis with
Deep Junior running on a four-processor machine. Boris Alterman also
authored the rich new openings book included on this CD. An early version
of Deep Junior on a quad board won a public two-game match against Boris
Gelfand (ELO 2713). |
