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Amir Ban with Shannon Trophy, WCCC 2013 [1] Amir Ban,

an Israeli computer scientist with a Ph.D. in Rationality from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram [2] in 2008, and computer chess programmer. Along with Shay Bushinsky, Amir Ban is primary author of the world class chess engine and multiple computer chess world champion Junior and its multiprocessor version Deep Junior. Amir started chess programming in 1985. Junior’s predecessor was written in Turbo Pascal, later ported to C and C++. In 1993, Shay joined Amir’s programming efforts, specializing in evaluation and optimisation [3].

Photos#

Maastricht 2002#

WCCC 2002: Boris Alterman, Alex Kure, Shay Bushinsky, Amir Ban, Tony Marsland and Jaap van den Herik [4]

Turin 2006#

WCCC 2006: Jaap van den Herik awards Amir Ban with the Shannon Trophy. First prize for Junior [5]

See also#

• Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003

Publications#

• Amir Ban (1996). Junior among the Grandmasters. ICCA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4
• Amir Ban (2004). Deep Junior Confirms its Strength. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 » WCCC 2004
• Amir Ban (2012). Automatic Learning of Evaluation, with Applications to Computer Chess. Discussion Paper 613, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality, Givat Ram [6]

Forum Posts#

• Re: What is “pre-processing” by Amir Ban, May 08, 1998 » Pre-processing
• Re: What to do with Horizon effect? by Amir Ban, CCC, November 01, 1998 » Horizon Effect
• Re: Razoring? by Amir Ban, CCC, January 27, 1999 » Razoring
• Answers by Amir Ban, CCC, February 15, 2003 [7] » Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003

External Links#

• Amir Ban’s ICGA Tournaments
• Amir Ban from Wikipedia
• Amir Ban - Israel | LinkedIn
• Amir Ban on Deep Junior from Combinatorics and more - Gil Kalai’s blog
• Interview with Amir Ban written by John Marountas, digichess.gr - Digital Chess Network July 31, 2002
• Amir Ban from zoominfo.com
• Meet the Authors by Ed Schröder

References#

1. ↑ Photos 2013 Events: day 7, ICGA
2. ↑ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality
3. ↑ Deep Junior timeline by Jorn Barger, February 2003
4. ↑ Photo by Theo van der Storm, 10e WK Computerschaak old CSVN Site
5. ↑ WCCC 2006, Photo by Gerd Isenberg
6. ↑ [Ban: Automatic Learning of Evaluation …] by BB+, OpenChess Forum, May 10, 2012
7. ↑ list of questions to ask to Amir and Shay … by Vincent Lejeune, CCC, February 10, 2003

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