Arasan for Windows 12.2

4.4 out of 5 stars 4.4 (27 votes)

(November 28, 2010)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 3,449 downloads

Arasan is a chess program that includes an opening book with about 32,000 moves.

Reviews of Arasan for Windows

  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    cricri_pingouin

    Reviewing 12.2 (Nov 29, 2010)

    Still sitting on my pen drive, and now updated. Thanks!

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    cricri_pingouin

    Reviewing 11.1 (Nov 28, 2010)

    It's been a while since I tried it again, and I'm glad to say that it changed for the best. Still small (3.7MB), portable, customisable, quick to play, still free, and largely strong enough to beat me up (but then I've never been a very good chess player). So it ticks all the right boxes, and I'm more then happy to give it top marks. Well done, keep on going that way!

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    cricri_pingouin

    Reviewing 9.5 (Mar 12, 2007)

    The game is free, plays quickly, has a nice library, and doesn't seem to play badly.
    However, when I try to install it, it wants to install to:
    C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\Application Data
    Weird. So I had to manually point it to C:\Program Files
    I like portable software. This is small, consists of a few file, so I thought "great, I'll put it on my pen drive". If you do, it won't find the resources to display the pieces anymore :(
    I also wish pieces sets could be read/imported from BMPs or something to make it look nicer (in addition to solve the problem pointed above).
    Overall, quite good, except that the package is not too well designed in my opinion.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    Ciolouse

    Reviewing 8.3 (Feb 11, 2007)

    Arasan 9.5 is out since October 2006.

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