Author: Shay Bushinsky
Date: 16:25:41 08/25/98
GM Leonid Yudasin VS. Junior 5.0 ------------------------------------------------- The special chess match will take place in the Dead Sea Hyatt Regency hotel August 26th - August 28th. The match will include 6 games: 2 standard time control games ( 2 hours for 40 moves and 1 hour for the rest of the game) and 4 rapid time control games (30 minutes per player per game). The first game is scheduled to start Wednesday (August 26th) at 16:00 local (13:00 GMT, 9:00 EDT) and will be transmitted LIVE over the ICC. (http://www.chessclub.com) The following game schedule will be announced later. The players: 1. GM Leonid Yudasin (39) resident of Beer-Sheba Israel had immigrated from Leningrad USSR after winning over 15 international tournaments including "USSR Active champion" and had qualified twice to the top 16 in the world only to be defeated by Ivanchuk in 1991 and by Kramnik in 1994. Yudasin had been a regular member of the Israel Olympic team and had participated in its behalf in several chess olympiads. 2. Junior 5.0 is the new version of the reigning world micro computer champion developed by Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky from Israel. Junior leaped into the top of computer chess programs in 1995 when it shared third place in the world open computer championships held in Hong Kong together with IBM's Deep Blue. Since then it had participated in several human and computer championships and in November 1997 convincingly won the world micro computer championships held in Paris. Junior had recently won the Israel Jubilee active tournament ahead of many of Israel's best grandmasters. The sponsors The match is sponsored by: 1. ChessBase gmbh, which is about to release the new Junior 5.0 2. The Dead Sea Hyatt Regency Hotel - special thanks to Mrs. Rinat Zukerman
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