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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."
And it's a reference to Deep Thought. If you don't know what Deep Thought is, there's no helping you :)
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I wonder if the origin of the "Deep" naming convention was Deep Thought, the computer from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I made a chess program in my freshman year. Horribly programmed, I have to admit, so probably doesn't relate well to these computers (and these aren't 486's either). When it's in a good position, it would usually find more good moves to make, and took less time to make a move. If it was in a bad position, most of the moves it would test turn out to be pretty bad, so it has to test more moves. All the moves it tested were stored. I only had a meg of RAM to draw on, and once in a while (usually when it was in a position where any move either resulted in stalemate or checkmate), it would run out of memory and freeze. Gave it a definite "sore loser" feel.