Junior 9 & Deep Junior 9
 
Junior 9 and Deep Junior 9 are now in stock! Order from BCM.
Junior 9 – reigning world champion...
 This
chess program, written by the Israelis Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky, has
achieved everything it could wish for. It is the current world computer
chess champion. Previous to this year Junior won the Computer Chess
World Championship in 1997, 2001 and 2002, and it can look back on a string
of successes against human beings in tournaments and matches. Its performance
against Garry Kasparov in the "Man vs Machine" match in New
York in January 2003 was unforgettable. With millions of people following
on the Internet, double world champion Junior played exciting, imaginative
chess to hold the world's strongest player to a 3:3 draw.
The latest version is the culmination of a development that started with
Junior7, the program that shocked Garry Kasparov with its famous bishop
sacrifice on h2. Moves that looked purely speculative with Junior7 are
proving to be perfectly sound in Junior9. This makes the program an extraordinarily
effective tool for analysing sharp and dynamic positions, especially those
involving the sacrifice of material. It is the program that is most likely
to correctly understand the compensation involved, both in the execution
of a sacrifice and the defence against it.
With Junior 9 you get two chess engines. One is the original engine that
played in the Kasparov match, the second is the most recent, further developed
version. But it is not just the engine that is fully up-to-date. You get
the latest Fritz user interface which has delighted fans all over the
world. You get the latest training functions for the opening, middle and
endgame; new photo-realistic 3D boards in custom-designed silver and surreal
hot-air balloons (see photos, left and right). It includes twelve
months of free access to Playchess.com, the world fastest-growing chess
server. And you get the latest Junior tournament book, developed by GM
Boris Alterman, as well as a database of 500,000 high-quality games.
The CD also contains a one-hour interview with the author of Junior,
Amir Ban, who explains in clear and lucid terms the way his program works.
Amir also tells us how a chess program is developed, and how Junior came
about its unique playing style. His goal is to generate a new and better
understanding of chess, not just a program that is more efficient at beating
rival products. 
Which to choose - Junior 9 or Deep Junior 9? ... Deep Junior 9
is the multi-processor 'big brother' of Junior 9 - so if you have access
to a multi-processor computing environment, it will deliver still more
speed to Junior's calculations - hence more strength. But it also gives
you extra power on a standard single-processor PC.
With Junior 9 or Deep Junior 9, you get...
- latest Fritz interface which has delighted fans all over
the world
- latest training functions for the opening, middle and
endgame
- new photo-realistic 3D boards in custom-designed silver
and surreal hot-air balloons (optional, of course!)
- 12 months' free access to Playchess.com, the world's fastest-growing
chess server for playing online
- latest Junior tournament book, developed by Grandmaster
Boris Alterman
- database of 500,000 games
System requirements: Pentium or compatible PC, 32 MB
RAM, Win98, Me, 2000, XP, CD ROM drive, mouse.
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version) from BCM Now
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