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Subject: Re: What's this Arasan 5.2? Certainly not bad!!!

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 00:43:43 08/08/01

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On August 07, 2001 at 19:20:15, stuart taylor wrote:

>On August 07, 2001 at 15:07:24, Jon Dart wrote:
>
>>On August 07, 2001 at 12:43:20, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks for these links. But I don't see Arasans results here incl. against one
>>>or two comercials.
>>
>>Despite your initial impressions, Arasan is not comparable in
>>strength to commercial programs. It's beaten Fritz and other
>>commercials a few times on the chess servers, but don't count
>>on it doing that regularly.
>>
>>--Jon
>
>Oh! you're the programmer? Nice to meet you!
>If it has beaten Fritz a little, it MIGHT be comparable to CM8K. Also to older
>top programs e.g. Genius 3 on a 486, if not better (e.g. on 850mhz+).
> That makes it very special. So are others if they are like that and free. And
>it puts tremendous pressure on the commercials, which probably don't always meet
>their requirments, in comparrison.
>S.Taylor

Arasan plays a good game of chess, in the 2300-2400 range on my PII400.  There
are better engines out there, but also quite a few that are weaker.  Chessmaster
8000 plays at around 2550 level.



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