Boris Alterman writes: Junior, a program developed by Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky
of Israel, had already won the title in 1997, 2001 and 2002. In 2003 it was
Shredder who won the title. Now, just seven months later, Junior has won back
the title.
I'd like to sum up the Bar Ilan Tournament by showing you two brilliant examples
from the World Computer Chess Championship. These two games prove the great
ability of chess programs. Looking at fantastic positional sacrifice by Junior
in his game against Diep and the thrillier game from the last round Falcon-Shredder
I must say – chess programs have a lot to teach us about playing chess!
GM Boris Alterman's Radio
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Boris Alterman is a consummate computer expert and an internationally feared
computer killer. In 2000 he played a remarkable game against Deep Fritz in
Holland, at one stage reaching the following historical position, which has
come to be known as the "Alterman Wall":
Boris won the
game against Fritz in 87 moves.
For those of you who have not been following our Chess Puzzle section for
many years there's a charming little story involving Garry Kasparov and the
young Boris Alterman. It was part of our Christmas
Puzzle 1999.
Here are the world-wide starting times for Alterman's lectures.
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