Jonny (chess program)

Jonny
Basic data
Current  version	8.0
category	Computer chess

Jonny is a chess program by the German mathematician Johannes Zwanzger . In 2015, at the 21st  World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) in Leiden , the Netherlands , it won the title and became World Computer Chess Champion.

Jonny ran on a special computer - hardware called "btrzx3". It was a Linux - Cluster of the University of Bayreuth , which consists of 2400 AMD - x86-64-bit processor cores used, with a clock frequency of 2.8  GHz were operated.

Since version 4.00 Jonny was compatible with the Universal Chess Interface (UCI) and was able to run as an engine under a general graphical user interface (GUI).

In 2017 at the 23rd World Computer Chess Championship, Jonny was runner-up just behind Komodo .

Web links

• 21st World Computer Chess Championships PDF; 2.5 MB (English), accessed on November 2, 2017
• Jonny in the Chess Programming Wiki , accessed November 2, 2017
• Replayable chess games by Jonny on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ We are world champions Press release from the University of Bayreuth on July 10, 2015, accessed on November 2, 2017
2. ↑ Komodo wins the WCCC from the ICGA, accessed on November 2, 2017