19th World Computer Chess Championship
Tilburg, The Netherlands
19th-23rd November 2011
Junior and HIARCS take top honours at World Computer Chess Championship.
There were two main tournaments at the World Computer Chess Championship, an unlimited hardware World Computer Chess Championship and an equal hardware World Chess Software Championship. HIARCS and Junior excelled in both tournaments with HIARCS winning the World Chess Software Championship (with Junior second) and Junior winning the World Computer Chess Championship (with HIARCS equal second).
World Computer Chess Champion: Junior
The Israeli program Junior won the 2011 World Computer Chess Championship without losing a single game. HIARCS and Shredder came equal second also without losing a game.
Junior impressed everyone with its fighting spirit and an attacking playing style that makes Junior such a unique and interesting chess player.
The tournament saw some competitors on some very impressive hardware with one program Jonny using 800 CPU cores. The final tournament table can be seen below:
Rank |
Program |
Country |
Hardware |
Games |
W+ |
D= |
L- |
Score |
1 |
Junior |
ISR |
16 core i7 Sandybridge |
8 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
6.0 |
2= |
HIARCS |
GBR |
12 core i7 Nehalem |
8 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
5.5 |
2= |
Shredder |
DEU |
TBD |
8 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
5.5 |
4= |
Pandix |
HUN |
TBD |
8 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
5.0 |
4= |
Jonny |
DEU |
800 core cluster |
8 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
5.0 |
6 |
The Baron |
NLD |
8 Core i7 Nehalem |
8 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
4.5 |
7 |
Booot |
UKR |
TBD |
8 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
3.0 |
8 |
Rookie 3.4 |
CHN |
TBD |
8 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
1.5 |
9 |
Woodpusher 1997 |
GBR |
TBD |
8 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
0.0 |
Here are the games of Junior and HIARCS in the World Computer Chess Championship that you can play through...
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Junior
Woodpusher
19th World Computer Chess Championship (1.1)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Jonny
HIARCS
19th World Computer Chess Championship (1.2)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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HIARCS
Rookie
19th World Computer Chess Championship (2.2)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Pandix
Junior
19th World Computer Chess Championship (2.4)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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The Baron
HIARCS
19th World Computer Chess Championship (3.3)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Junior
Jonny
19th World Computer Chess Championship (4.3)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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HIARCS
Booot
19th World Computer Chess Championship (4.4)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Nimzovich-Larsen Attack | A01 |
HIARCS
Woodpusher
19th World Computer Chess Championship (5.1)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Booot
Junior
19th World Computer Chess Championship (5.4)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Junior
The Baron
19th World Computer Chess Championship (6.3)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Rookie
Junior
19th World Computer Chess Championship (7.1)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Shredder
HIARCS
19th World Computer Chess Championship (7.4)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Junior
Shredder
19th World Computer Chess Championship (8.3)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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Pandix
HIARCS
19th World Computer Chess Championship (8.4)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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HIARCS
Junior
19th World Computer Chess Championship (9.3)
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2011
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