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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