Jonny (chess)

Jonny is a computer chess program written by the German mathematician and programmer Johannes Zwanzger.^[1][2]

Jonny won the 2015 World Computer Chess Championship.^[3][4] It ran on a "btrzx3" linux cluster^[5] of the University of Bayreuth using 2,400 AMD x86-64 2.8 GHz cores in total.

Results

• Champion at the World Computer Speed Chess Championship in 2010, 2011, 2016 and 2019
• Runner-up at the World Computer Chess Championship in 2013 and Champion in 2015
• Two times runner up at the Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship

References

1. "chessprogramming - Jonny". Chessprogramming.org. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
2. "chessprogramming - Johannes Zwanzger". Chessprogramming.org. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
3. "WCCC 2015 | ICGA". Icga.leidenuniv.nl. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
4. "21st World Computer Chess Championships" (PDF). Icga.leidenuniv.nl. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
5. "Linuxcluster btrzx3". www.rz.uni-bayreuth.de. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2022.