Arasan-Postmodernist match

[Jon Dart]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Jon Dart at 07 March 2004 16:24:24:

I ran a 40 move/40 minute match between Postmodernist 1.010a and Arasan 7.4. Hardware was an XP2500+, 64 MB Hash for Arasan, 44MB for PM. Arasan lost this match, +3, -10, =7. Games are available at
http://www.arasanchess.org/pm.pgn
I haven't analyzed the games in detail. My general impression was that PM gained greater mobility in several games and was able to win "positionally". For example, in game 4, PM got doubled rooks and had the better position for most of the game, but really won in the endgame where it was able to out-manouver Arasan and win material.
Game 18 looks like an opening book problem (18 .. Ne8 is the standard move, but isn't in Arasan's small book).
--Jon