Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 02:02:22 06/18/00
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On June 17, 2000 at 20:13:02, Jon Dart wrote: >On June 17, 2000 at 16:40:23, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>As always, you are too cautious when talking of Arasan strenght.... IMHO it is >>low IM strenght since previous version. . Let us say, 2375 to 2400. maybe more. >>Fernando > >One of the reasons I'm cautious is that I've seen it lose to much >lower-rated players. And I've seen masters (not IMs) take it >completely apart, and make it look easy. So, in some respects, >its chess knowledge is not at the level of a human 2400-rated >player. Its average performance is very good. But it's got holes >in its knowledge that can be found and exploited, probably a lot >of them. > >--Jon Hello, Fernando is right about Arasan's play: it's picked up and is quite strong now. I went through all the games in its match vs IM Paunovic and must say that I was very impressed by its play. However, IM Paunovic played exactly as he would play a human, he did not try anti-computer chess; he tried to beat it tactically, which was wrong. Actually, I believe that Paunovic would have won many games in that little match against a highly rated human, but he wasn't able to do it against Arasan. My opinion: in computer - computer terms I believe that Arasan is now close to 2400, if not even stronger. Against humans: you described its strong points and shortcomings quite well: can play a 2600 game, but can also easily succumb to an average human... *** Djordje
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