Junior wins Computer Chess World Championship

6/1/2006 – 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
	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