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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
standingsPlace |
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 |
