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| Amir Ban with [[Shannon Trophy]], [[WCCC 2013]] <ref>[https://icga.org/?page_id=883 Photos 2013 Events: day 7], [[ICGA]]</ref> ]]
'''Amir Ban''',<br/>
an Israeli computer scientist with a Ph.D. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality Rationality] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_University_of_Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givat_Ram Givat Ram] <ref>[http://www.ratio.huji.ac.il/ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality]</ref> 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 [[Pascal#TurboPascal|Turbo Pascal]], later ported to [[C]] and [[Cpp|C++]]. In 1993, Shay joined Amir's programming efforts, specializing in [[Evaluation|evaluation]] and [[Automated Tuning|optimisation]] <ref>[http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/deepjunior.html Deep Junior timeline] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Barger Jorn Barger], February 2003</ref>.

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