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[M ANSARI]

You can get good results against any computer, no matter how powerful it is, by letting it follow a known opening. But to be honest, that is sort of cheating ... best is to let it have a good book designed to play humans, where the moves are randomly chosen and the computer chooses moves that are not necessarily the best, and within a window of +-.1 difference ... this is to avoid choosing repeated lines that a human can hone in on. It is really sobering how strong engines have become, and I sometimes setup resigned positions from GM play and try to play out the win from the winning side ... very very annoyingly frustrating to see how much resistance the engine can put!