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Playing on home turf is an advantage in most sports. But in computer chess? Well, based on the results of the 12th WCCC, one has to give this hypothesis some credibility. It certainly didn’t hurt Deep Junior. The Israeli program took on its main rivals, Shredder and Fritz, in its own backyard, the campus of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, a suburb of Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv, and showed them who’s best. Shredder had taken the title of World Champion away from Deep Junior the previous year; Deep Junior had won the title in 2002, having taken the title away from Shredder, who in turn had taken it away from Fritz in 2001! Until Shredder won the title in 2003, no world champion had ever lost the title and regained it later. Now, it happened for a second time in a row.
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Johannes Zwanzger, “The 12th World Computer-Chess Championship”, ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 160–167, September 2004.
Shredder versus Deep Junior, Round 5, 12th WCCC: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1293621
Fritz versus Shredder, Round 6, 12th WCCC: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1293628
Deep Junior versus Fritz, Round 9, 12th WCCC: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1293644
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Newborn, M. (2011). 2004: Deep Junior Edges Out Shredder to Take 12th WCCC. In: Beyond Deep Blue. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-341-1_7
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