The software that played a tie against Kasparov has been improved.

It now offers bonus materials: tips and tactics and also chess performance analysis with chess engines. What has started out with the famous bishop sacrifice on h2 against Kasparov has now been fine tuned into a smooth, dynamic, human like playing style. Junior 10 is 2006 computer chess champion, having defeated the Shredder program in Turin in Italy.

Junior developers are concerned in creating a program that provides humans with insight into the game of chess. Thus this program has a pronounced understanding of compensation and a dynamic risk allowing playing style.

Computers are notorious for not taking risks, but Junior is created to play a less calculated game. The program differs from others in its evaluation of strategy. It has an effective tool for analyzing sharp and dynamic positions, especially those involving the sacrifice of material. It is the program that is most likely to correctly understand the compensation involved, both in the execution of a sacrifice and the defense against it.

Add great graphics that allow you to float over the board as if you were flying in a hot air balloon over a giant chess game, and the Junior tournament book developed by the master GM Boris Alterman to 500,000 games and 12 months of free access to the Playchess.com server, and I say this is the best deal in the chess software market today.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pentium III, 128 MB RAM, Win98 SE, Win2000, WinXP, DVD-drive, Soundcard. JUNIOR 10 - on DVD-ROM