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Junior Wins Computer Chess, Fritz Crashes Out
bryan writes "'Junior' has regained the title of best computer chess program for 2004. Deep Junior previously drew Gary Kasparov 3-3 last year. From chessbase.com: 'Two programs went into the final round with equal scores: title defender Shredder and the home team of Junior. Interestingly it was another Israeli program that brought Junior the overall victory: Falcon held Shredder to a draw, while Junior demolished ParSOS.'" But, more interestingly: "The other favourite in the field, Fritz, did not have a good tournament. In round three it lost a very promising position against Falcon on time, when the computer froze and the operator did not notice this soon enough."
The naming convention these days is that a multi-processor version of a chess program gets "Deep" added to its name.
E.g. Fritz - Deep Fritz and Junior - Deep Junior
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The open source Crafty tied for 4th out of a field of 14. It placed 2nd in the speed chess competition, losing only one game.
Not a bad showing at all.
-charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Yes. There was a chess computer called Deep Thought and named after the computer in Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was a predecessor / renamed to Deep Blue (built by IBM, hence the Blue). I imagine any "Deep" chess name after that was inspired by Deep Thought / Deep Blue.