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Junior wins Computer Chess World Championship

1.6.2006 - 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.
 

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
 
 Rajlich 2820
8.5
 62.5
4
 Zappa 2830
7.5
 73.0
5-7
 Spike 2760
6.5
 64.0
  DIEP 2680
6.5
 62.5
 
 Jonny 2650
6.5
 62.5
8-9
 Crafty 2700
6
 73.0
 
 Ikarus 2660
6
 58.0
10-11
 IsiChess 2500
5.5
 60.5
 
 Delfi 4.6 2450
5.5
 59.5
 12-13
 Chiron 2400
5
 59.5
 
 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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