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HIARCS is a multiple World Championship winning computer chess engine
and the reigning World Chess Software Champion. HIARCS computer chess software provides chess
programs on Mac OS, PC Windows and iPad/iPhone. You can
purchase HIARCS Chess software direct from the developer on this website.
HIARCS is renowned for
its high quality, human like chess play, realistic weaker levels and unprecedented
chess performance from handheld devices to
multi-core desktop computers. Our new HIARCS Chess Explorer chess GUI for Mac
and PC offers
world class chess database, analysis and playing software for Apple Mac and PC
Windows users. We also sell the unique Deep Junior computer chess engine which is a
multiple and current World Computer Chess Champion.
HIARCS
- World Chess Software Champion
Junior
- World Computer Chess Champion
![[New!]](smallnew.gif) Mac
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.4 free update for
customers released
PC
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.4 free update for
customers released
New
March 2013 Opening Book Update
for Book Subscribers now available
The
independent SSDF rating group report Deep HIARCS 14 defeated Deep Fritz 13 at
tournament time controls by 28-12 (70% +149 Elo perf). Deep HIARCS 14 is
available in the Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer
product on PC and on Apple Mac
HIARCS is the chess program generally used by World Chess
Champion Vishy Anand.
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HIARCS Chess Software products for PC,
Apple Mac, Pocket PC, Palm, iPhone & iPod Touch
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HIARCS Chess Explorer for
Mac
The ultimate chess database, analysis and
playing program for the Apple Mac
World Computer Chess Software Champion
Deep HIARCS 14 chess
engine
Suitable
for all players from beginners to the World Chess Champion with human-like play
Platform: Intel based Apple Mac™ OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion) or
10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Playing ability: Beginner (750 Elo) up to World Chess Championship strength
and beyond
(3200+ Elo)†
Languages: English, French, German,
Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
HIARCS Chess Explorer is a superb new chess database,
analysis and playing program for Apple Mac. It offers a truly innovative and
intuitive new graphical user interface with powerful features together with
the reigning World Chess Software Champion HIARCS 14 chess engines (Deep
multiprocessor or single processor versions). This unique combination is
refreshingly easy to use and includes many new features for managing chess
databases, chess preparation, analysis and training for players of all
abilities from beginner to Grandmaster.
Read more about HIARCS Mac Chess Explorer..
Key features:
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Advanced Chess Graphical User Interface
with high quality chess graphics (retina enabled), easy to use powerful features,
comprehensive 108 page manual and context sensitive help. |
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HIARCS 14 World Chess Software Champion
chess engine - incredibly strong analysis, advice and chess play (free updates
in 14 series). Includes the World's strongest commercial tournament openings book accessible directly
by
the engine
The engine generally used by World Chess Champion Vishy Anand.
Deep
HIARCS 14 engine is included in Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer product. |
| Comprehensive PGN database support
with multiple databases, searching, filtering and sorting by game,
openings and positions, ECO opening name classification, etc. |
| Extensive game notation support
with variations, text comments, annotations, chess symbols and opening
naming. Game entry, move suggestions, diagrams and printing.
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| Innovative Chess Opening Explorer
gives new insight into chess openings with the world’s first
multi-source real-time chess tree with online book access. Create
an opening book tree of the positions, moves and statistics of your games
or your opponents automatically. |
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Explore Players
their games, performances and favourite
openings with easy game navigation and an automated repertoire summary
for databases and players. |
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Analyse positions and games with
multiple engines, view multiple lines of analysis with
history/statistics. Post game analysis with variations - blunder check
your games. |
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Custom Game Play mode with
realistic human-like handicap levels for players from beginner to Grandmaster.
Maintains a chess rating, opponents to match your ability. Integrated
coach to point out mistakes, good moves and hints. Chess opening
play practice. |
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Packaged databases of high quality
GM games including game commentary by IMs and GMs. Online
access to massive chess endgame and opening book databases. |
HIARCS Mac Chess Explorer is a software download
product. It is a complete chess application with world class Graphical User
Interface, chess engines and chess games databases, opening books and
endgame tablebases. The ultimate chess
software for the Apple Macintosh.
Prices
from*:
£37.50 /
€46.95 / $59.95
"In summary, this is an excellent
chess system that is suitable for players of all strengths. It has a lot
of features, comes with a super-strong engine, and it is very easy to
use. Highly recommended" - Joe Petrolito, Independent
review for Australasian Chess.
"Clearly the best chess software for
the Apple Macintosh" - Chess Magazine
LEARN MORE
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March 2013
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.4 free update for
customers releasedMarch 2013
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.3 free update for
customers released
December 2012
Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer GM+ book update
- more than a million moves added!
December 2012
HIARCS 14 defeats Deep Fritz 13 on SSDF
rating list by 28-12
November 2012
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.2 free update for
customers released
"Clearly the best chess software for the Apple Macintosh" - Chess
Magazine
October 2012
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.1 free update for
customers released
September 2012
"HIARCS Chess
Explorer on the Mac is an excellent program and great value for money"
www.chessthoughts.com
August 2012
New
HIARCS Chess Explorer for Mac Windows |
HIARCS
Chess Explorer for PC
World class chess database, analysis and
playing user interface
World Computer Chess Software Champion
Deep HIARCS 14 chess
engine
Suitable
for all players from beginners to the World Chess Champion with human-like play
Platform: PC MS Windows™ XP, Vista, Windows 7 & 8 (32 and
64 bit)
Playing ability: Beginner (750 Elo) up to World Chess Championship strength
and beyond
(3200+ Elo)†
Languages: English, French, German,
Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
HIARCS Chess Explorer is an exciting new chess database,
analysis and playing program for Windows. It offers a truly innovative and
intuitive new graphical user interface with powerful features together with
the reigning World Chess Software Champion HIARCS 14 chess engines (Deep
multiprocessor or single processor versions). This unique combination is
refreshingly easy to use and includes many new features for managing chess
databases, chess preparation, analysis and training for players of all
abilities from beginner to Grandmaster. Read more about HIARCS PC Chess Explorer..
Key features:
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Advanced Chess Graphical User Interface
with high quality graphics and icons, easy to use powerful features,
comprehensive manual and context sensitive help. |
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HIARCS 14 World Chess Software Champion
chess engine - incredibly strong analysis, advice and play (free updates
in 14 series). Includes the World's strongest commercial tournament openings book accessible directly
by
the engine.
The engine generally used by World Chess Champion Vishy Anand.
Deep HIARCS 14 engine is included in Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer product. |
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Comprehensive PGN database support
with multiple databases, searching, filtering and sorting by game,
openings and positions, ECO opening name classification, etc. |
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Extensive game notation support
with variations, text comments, annotations, chess symbols and opening
naming. Game entry, move suggestions, diagrams and printing.
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Innovative Chess Opening Explorer
gives new insight into chess openings with the world’s first
multi-source real-time chess tree with live updates and online access.
Create an opening book tree of the positions, moves and statistics of your games
or opponents automatically. |
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Explore Players
their games, performances and favourite
openings with easy game navigation and an automated repertoire summary
for databases and players. |
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Analyse positions and games with
multiple engines, view multiple lines of analysis with
history/statistics. Post game analysis with variations - blunder check
your games. |
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Custom Game Play mode with
human-like handicap levels for players from beginner to Grandmaster.
Maintains a chess rating, opponents to match your ability. Integrated
coach to point out mistakes, good moves and hints. Chess opening
practice mode. |
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Packaged databases of high quality
GM games including game commentary by IMs and GMs. Online
access to massive chess endgame and opening book databases. |
HIARCS PC Chess Explorer is a
software download product. It is a complete chess application with world
class Graphical User Interface, chess engines, chess games databases,
opening books and endgame tablebases.
Prices
from*:
£37.50 /
€46.95 / $59.95
"In summary, this is an excellent
chess system that is suitable for players of all strengths. It has a lot
of features, comes with a super-strong engine, and it is very easy to
use. Highly recommended" - Joe Petrolito, Independent
review for Australasian Chess.
"The best PC chess software release
in 2012" - Chess Magazine
LEARN MORE
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March 2013
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.4 free update for
customers releasedMarch 2013
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.3 free update for
customers released
December 2012
Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer GM+ book update -
more than a million moves added!
December 2012
HIARCS 14 defeats Deep Fritz 13 on SSDF
rating list by 28-12
November 2012
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.2 free update for
customers released
"The
best PC chess software release in 2012" - Chess Magazine
October 2012
HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.1 free update for
customers released
August 2012
New
HIARCS Chess Explorer for PC Windows |
 Deep
Junior 13 UCI for Apple Macintosh
The World Computer Chess Champion chess engine for
Mac OS X
Platform: Any Intel based Apple Macintosh™ computer
(2007 or later) running Mac™ OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion) or 10.8
(Mountain Lion)
Playing ability: World Chess Championship strength (3200+ Elo)†
Deep Junior by Amir Ban
& Shay Bushinsky has long been established as one of the world's premier
chess playing engines and has won many World Computer Chess titles. Deep
Junior 13 is the World Computer Chess Champion and is as aggressive and attacking as ever with a wonderful sense for
king attacks and dynamic play - an essential partner for any attack minded
chess player. The Deep Junior chess program is unique in its understanding
of compensation and therefore chess players of all standards can use Junior
to gain a deep insight into their games and prepare new exciting lines
involving sacrifices with confidence. The chess knowledge has naturally also
been improved so the Deep Junior 13 series is the strongest ever Junior and
capable of supporting up to 40 cores simultaneously for the ultimate performance.
Read more about
Deep Junior for Mac...
Key features:
| Deep Junior 13 series multi-processor
UCI chess engine (64 bit) |
| New Deep Junior 13.3 available
now! |
| Retains Deep Junior's enterprising and entertaining
playing style in strongest ever setting |
| Supporting up to 40 cores with a new and improved
multiprocessing algorithm |
| Strength Limitation feature adjusts playing strength
to suit players from casual amateur to Grandmasters |
| Many time World Computer Chess Champion evolution of the program that
drew match with Kasparov
in 2003 |
| Junior 13 opening book with book learning by GM Alon Greenfeld
(2010 Chess Olympiad bronze medalist) |
| FREE
updates in the Deep Junior 13 series when available |
Deep Junior 13 is a UCI chess engine
compatible with Mac OS 10.6, 10.7 or 10.8, requires UCI compatible
Mac chess GUI such as Mac HIARCS Chess Explorer.
The Deep Junior chess engine is a
software download product
Price*: £37.50 / €46.95 /
$59.95
LEARN MORE
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October 2012
Deep Junior 13 released now available |
Deep
Junior 13 UCI for PC
The World Computer Chess Champion chess engine for PC MS Windows
Platform: PC MS Windows™
XP, Vista, Windows 7 & 8 (32 and 64 bit)
Playing ability: World Chess Championship strength and beyond (3200+ Elo)†
Deep Junior by Amir Ban
& Shay Bushinsky has long been established as one of the world's premier
chess playing engines and has won many World Computer Chess titles. Deep
Junior 13 is the World Computer Chess Champion and is as aggressive and attacking as ever with a wonderful sense for
king attacks and dynamic play - an essential partner for any attack minded
chess player. The Deep Junior chess program is unique in its understanding
of compensation and therefore chess players of all standards can use Junior
to gain a deep insight into their games and prepare new exciting lines
involving sacrifices with confidence. The chess knowledge has naturally also
been improved so the Deep Junior 13 series is the strongest ever Junior and
capable of supporting up to 40 cores simultaneously for the ultimate performance.
Read more about
Deep Junior for PC...
Key features:
| Deep Junior 13 series multi-processor
UCI chess engines (32 & 64 bit) |
| New Deep Junior 13.3 update now
available (free for DJ13 customers) |
| New strongest ever Deep Junior chess engine |
| Retains Deep Junior's enterprising and entertaining
playing style in strongest ever setting |
| Supporting up to 40 cores with an improved
multiprocessing algorithm |
| Strength Limitation feature adjusts playing strength
to suit players from casual amateur to Grandmasters |
| Many time World Computer Chess Champion and the program that
drew match with Kasparov
in 2003 |
| Junior 13 CTG opening book by GM Alon Greenfeld
(2010 Chess Olympiad bronze medalist) |
| Integrated engine book for use where ctg cannot be used |
| Full set of configurable
Deep Junior UCI engine parameters |
| FREE
updates in the Deep Junior 13 series when available |
Deep Junior 13 UCI is a PC Windows software download product only.
It does not include a Graphical User Interface (GUI) so requires a GUI such as
Chess Explorer, Fritz, Chessbase, Arena, Chess Assistant, Shredder, Chess Partner etc,
that support UCI engines.
Price*: £37.50 / €46.95 /
$59.95
LEARN MORE
HOW
TO BUY
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June 2012
Deep Junior 13.3 update releasedFebruary 2012
Deep Junior 13 World Computer Chess Champion released
November 2011
Deep
Junior wins 2011 World Computer Chess Championship, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Online Tournament Book Access: 1 year subscription
World's Strongest Chess Openings Book
Suitable
for all players from beginners to the World Chess Champion
Platform:
(Deep) HIARCS Chess Explorer for PC
Windows or Apple Mac required.
"I subscribe to your Powerbook now
and I'm pretty impressed by it, I use it all the time in my chess teaching.
As far as I know it is the best publicly available book."
Larry Kaufman, Grandmaster and World Senior
Chess Champion.
HIARCS Chess Explorer
provides online access to GM opening books as standard. If you want to enhance
this to have access to the World Strongest Chess Opening Book and a Human
Reference of opening play this is the product for you. Many chess players need to remain up to date with the latest
chess opening theory throughout the year and that is where our online book
access subscription can help, giving you the latest and strongest opening book
straight into the Opening Explorer view of your HIARCS Chess Explorer
application.
For many years HIARCS has had the strongest opening
book available and it keeps getting stronger with every release. We even
supplied the HIARCS tournament chess opening book to help World Chess Champion, Vishy Anand's
team prepare for his recent World Championship matches in which he was so
successful.
For the first time we are making our tournament opening
book available for online access from HIARCS Chess Explorer. You get:
| Online access to the HIARCS Tournament opening book with
quarterly updates in September, December, March and June of each year |
| Includes tournament (8,247,074 moves)
and human reference (26,033,372 moves) books |
| Moves analysed with statistics and up to date with
latest chess opening theory |
| Upon purchase you will receive a personal book
license code which can be used in PC and Mac HIARCS Chess Explorer to
enable
direct access to the books in the Opening Explorer views |
| Subscription lasts 1 year and is renewable |
If you want access to the HIARCS
tournament opening book in Chessbase CTG or HIarcs HCS format you need the
HIARCS Chess Opening Book Subscription
instead.
Price*:
£24.95 / €33.60
/ $39.95
BUY NOW
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March 2013
Tournament and Reference book updatesDecember 2012
Access to new
Human Reference book included. A massive 18.8 million move reference of
human chess opening play and statistics!
October 2012
New
Tournament online book access subscription for HIARCS Chess Explorer on
Apple Mac or PC Windows |
HIARCS
Chess Opening Book Subscription
World's Strongest Chess Openings Book.
Suitable
for all players from beginners to the World Chess Champion
Platform: PC Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone/iPad
"I subscribe to your Powerbook now and
I'm pretty impressed by it, I use it all the time in my chess teaching. As far
as I know it is the best publicly available book."
Larry Kaufman, Grandmaster and World Senior Chess
Champion.
Each HIARCS product comes with its own chess opening book at the time of the release of the particular
product. However, many chess players need to remain up to date with the latest
chess opening theory throughout the year and online chess engine players like to
have the latest and strongest chess opening book. For many years HIARCS has had the strongest opening
book available and it keeps getting stronger with every release. We even
supplied the HIARCS tournament chess opening book to help World Chess
Champion, Vishy Anand's
team prepare for his recent World Championship matches in which he was so
successful.
The latest HIARCS tournament opening
book is available in Chessbase CTG format (for PC), HIARCS' own HCS format
for Mac and PC
with regular updates for subscribers to the HIARCS Chess Opening Book
Subscription product. Improvements per year have averaged about 80 Elo points. Over the
course of a year the opening book may contribute more to chess strength
improvement than the
increase in chess engine strength.
The
HIARCS Chess Opening Book Subscription offers the
following:
| Latest HIARCS tournament chess opening book in CTG, HBG and HCS formats
with online access for HIARCS Chess Explorer customers. |
| Quarterly updates usually in
June, September,
December and March - you will receive an email with details of each
update. |
| Direct access to human reference if you already have
HIARCS Chess Explorer |
| Up to date with the latest chess opening theory for
unrivalled strength |
| Average improvement of 80 Elo per year |
| Upon purchase you will receive a link and login details
for downloading the latest HIARCS opening book and many previous opening
books! |
| Latest March 2013 opening book with 8,247,074
positions, 833,897 variations and statistics from 2,038,316 top quality games. |
| Subscription lasts 1 year and is renewable |
| Unrivalled track record of delivery and
improvements |
HIARCS Chess Opening Books are for software
download only. They require either the HIARCS Chess Explorer GUI (direct access), a Chessbase/Fritz GUI
for CTG, HIARCS chess engine for HCS or HIARCS Chess on iPhone/iPad for
HBG. Statistics are only available for direct access, CTG & HBG format books. The
HCS format book can be used by HIARCS 14 engines on Mac and PC.
Price*:
£39.95 / €49.95
/ $59.95
LEARN MORE
Suitable for significantly improving the
performance of any chess player or chess engine
Our customers are 80 Elo better off over the last year with the HIARCS
Book Subscription.
"I have tried the
book in several configurations. Means in autoplayer games at home, at FICS
chess server and at playchess. I am very impressed. My feedback: This book
is a masterpiece ! Congratulations" -
Clemens
"I agree. Clearly a
lot of work has been put into this book to provide strength in depth so the
openings hold up in different time control games.
Excellent value for money in its own right but with a quarterly update ...
just superb." -
PeterG
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March 2013
Tournament book updated
December 2012
Tournament book updated
December 2012
Access for HIARCS Chess Explorer customers
to new
Human Reference book. A massive 18.8 million move reference of human chess
opening play and statistics!
September 2012
Book Update available now: Hiarcs14cBook
June 2012
Hiarcs13jBook released
March 2012
Hiarcs13iBook released
December 2011
Hiarcs13hBook released
September 2011
Hiarcs13gBook released
June 2011
Hiarcs13fBook released
March 2011
Hiarcs13eBook released
December 2010
Hiarcs13dBook released
September 2010
Hiarcs13cBook released
June 2010
Hiarcs13bBook released
June 2010
Hiarcs13aBook defeats Rybka 4 Opening Books
in two 300 game matches
May 2010
New HIARCS Chess Opening Book Subscription
now available
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HIARCS
Chess v13.5 for iPhone and iPod Touch
World's strongest iPhone
chess software.
Suitable for all, from
beginner to strong Grandmaster with human-like play, energy saving handicap
levels and coaching.
Platform: iPhone/iPod (iOS 4.3
or later) - inc. retina graphics
Playing ability: Beginner (1000 Elo) to Strong Grandmaster (2800+ Elo)†
HIARCS
is a multiple World Championship winning chess program that has proven to be the
strongest chess program on Palm and Pocket PC devices and is now available for
the iPhone and iPod Touch.
This power enables your iPhone to play chess like a super Grandmaster, analyse
games and chess problems with you, while offering numerous features to help you
learn and improve as you play with HIARCS.
HIARCS Chess has a full range of realistic weaker opponents and playing
styles catering for all players from absolute beginners to professional
Grandmasters. On the weaker playing levels HIARCS will make human-like mistakes
appropriate to the level of play and this together with the in-built coach
watching allows you to learn and improve quickly. HIARCS can even adjust its
playing strength as you improve and learn more.
In addition it offers these great features:
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Strongest chess program on
iPhone and iPod Touch - genuine strong super GM level
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Suitable for all players with low
energy settable Elo levels and opponents |
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Play white or black, analyse or watch
game with settable chess clock for timed play |
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Rates your play in Elo, a coach warns
about mistakes with hint moves and takebacks |
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Friendly user interface with 8 piece
sets, 9 colour schemes and figurine notation |
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Access to the super strong HIARCS tournament book with
move stats and opening names displayed |
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Exchange PGN databases with you device
and Load/Save/Email games, set up
positions, navigate through game |
To find out more about this new Apple iPhone chess product
visit our HIARCS iPhone Chess product page.
LEARN MORE about HIARCS
iPhone Chess
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March 2013
New HIARCS Chess 13.5 now
available for iPhone
January 2013
New HIARCS Chess 13.4 now
available for iPhone
September 2011
Rated 9.4/10 by iPhone App Finder
September 2011
New HIARCS Chess 13.31 now
available for iPhone Chess.June 2011
New HIARCS Chess 12.4 now
available for iPhone Chess.
February 2011
New HIARCS Chess 12.3 now
available for iPhone Chess.
September
2009
"The playing program is good. It is good enough to beat
99.9% of chess players on this planet....It gives an excellent entertainment and
educational value...On the
scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 9.5. Well done!"
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review of HIARCS iPhone Chess by Susan Polgar, former Women's World Chess Champion and award-winning chess
author.
August 2009
HIARCS iPhone Chess for iPhone and iPod Touch launched |
HIARCS
Chess v13.5 for iPad
World class iPad
chess software.
Suitable for all, from
beginner to strong Grandmaster with human-like play, energy saving handicap
levels and coaching.
Platform: iPad - all editions (iOS 4,3 or later) - inc.
Retina graphics.
Playing ability: Beginner (1000 Elo) to Strong Grandmaster (2925+ Elo)†
HIARCS
is a multiple World Championship winning chess program that has proven to be the
strongest chess program on Palm and Pocket PC devices and is now available for
the iPad.
This power enables your iPad to play chess like a super Grandmaster, analyse
games and chess problems with you, while offering numerous features to help you
learn and improve as you play with HIARCS.
HIARCS Chess has a full range of realistic weaker opponents and playing
styles catering for all players from absolute beginners to professional
Grandmasters. On the weaker playing levels HIARCS will make human-like mistakes
appropriate to the level of play and this together with the in-built coach
watching allows you to learn and improve quickly. HIARCS can even adjust its
playing strength as you improve and learn more.
In addition it offers these great features:
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Strongest iPhone chess program now on iPad - genuine strong super GM level
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Suitable for all players with low
energy settable Elo levels and opponents |
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Play white or black, analyse or watch
game with settable chess clock for timed play |
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Rates your play in Elo, a coach warns
about mistakes with hint moves and takebacks |
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Friendly user interface with 8 piece
sets, 9 colour schemes and figurine notation |
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Access to the super strong HIARCS tournament book with
move stats and opening names displayed |
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Exchange PGN databases with you device
and Load/Save/Email games, set up
positions, navigate through game |
To find out more about this new Apple iPad chess product
visit our HIARCS iPad Chess product page.
LEARN MORE about HIARCS
iPad Chess
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March 2013
HIARCS Chess 13.5 for iPad released
January 2013
HIARCS Chess 13.4 for iPad released
September 2011
Rated 9.4/10 by iPhone App Finder
September 2011
HIARCS Chess 13.3 for iPad launched
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HIARCS
and Junior Tournament successes
Other recent tournament successes:
HIARCS
Chess Performances on handheld devices
| HIARCS version |
Device |
Played against/in |
Result |
Performance rating |
| Palm Chess HIARCS 9.5a |
Zire 72(ARM/312Mh z) |
GM Jan Gustafsson (2616 Elo) |
HIARCS won 3-1 |
2809 Elo |
| Palm Chess HIARCS 9.5a |
Zire 72 (ARM/312Mhz) |
GM Sergey Volkov (2682 Elo) |
HIARCS won 3-1 |
2875 Elo |
| Palm Chess HIARCS 9.5a |
Zire 72 (ARM/312Mhz) |
GM Piotr Bobras (2655 Elo) |
HIARCS won 3-1 |
2848 Elo |
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Palm Chess HIARCS 9.6 |
Lifedrive (ARM/400Mhz) |
2nd Congressman Pichay Invitational, Philippines |
HIARCS won tournament 6/7 points |
2748 Elo |
| Palm Chess HIARCS 9.7 |
Zire 31 (ARM/200Mhz) |
GM Dusan Popovic (2555 Elo) |
HIARCS won 3½-½ |
2884 Elo |
| Pocket HIARCS 12.1
in PF3 |
Pocket PC (ARM/624Mhz) |
2008 Mescosur Cup in Buenos Aires,
Argentina |
HIARCS won tournament 8/10 points |
2691 Elo |
| Pocket HIARCS 13 in
PF4 |
Pocket PC (ARM/528Mhz) |
2009 Mescosur Cup in Buenos Aires,
Argentina |
HIARCS won tournament 9½/10
points |
2938 Elo |
HIARCS 13.1 on Pocket PC the highest rated PDA chess program in history with 2749 Elo on the
official SSDF rating list. Visit our Pocket Chess HIARCS page.
Palm Chess Pro has won 4 matches with chess Grandmasters -the strongest and most successful handheld chess player in history!
Packed with many more features than any other Palm
chess program. Read more...
For over 15 years some of the best chess players in
the world including multiple World Champions have been using HIARCS to prepare, analyse and play against. HIARCS is
the result of 25 years active development by author Mark Uniacke and was the
first PC chess program in history to win a match with an
International Master (1996) and in 2003 it became the first chess program on a single
processor to draw a match against a Super GM. In 2005 HIARCS
on a Palm PDA became the first
and only handheld chess program in history to defeat a GM in a match
and in 2006 it was again the first and only handheld chess program to win a
GM/IM tournament! In 2008 our Pocket PC chess engine won the 2008 Mescusor
Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina ahead of Grandmasters scoring 8/10 in the
process. This is a performance of 2691 Elo which is the best ever chess
performance rating of a chess program on PDA in a Grandmaster tournament in
history. Meanwhile its big brother HIARCS on PC and Mac
was producing brilliant attacking chess to win a number of international
computer chess tournaments and was top single computer in the World Computer
Chess Championship in Beijing, China, Oct 2008. In August 2009, our Pocket PC
chess engine went more than one step better by scoring an unprecedented
and undefeated 9½/10 points (3 points clear of second placed
Grandmaster) and 2938 Elo performance rating!
The greatest performance by any handheld chess computer in history.
"For me the Hiarcs brand is to PC chess what Mephisto was to dedicated -
classy and a brand I trust."
- Howard Deere
Recently a couple of customers posted
these assessments of the HIARCS series of chess programs on a public forum, we
think they nicely sum up what HIARCS is all about:
"...there is something that has been
his [Hiarcs] monopoly, ever: style... The essence of Hiarcs style, if we still
will use the word, is kind of an unrelenting, sharp, murderous, pitiless ability
and hunger for blood... Hiarcs kills you as a guy jumping on you with a sword would do. No
matter how good your position seems to be, how solid and ultra defensive, Hiarcs
suddenly will find a corner to kick and put all your building in ruins. It is
exhilarating to play it, more, lot more than with any other strong program. It
is a real pleasure to be defeated that way. Fast, lightning, unexpected death."
- Fernando
"Hiarcs by Mark Uniacke comes in so
many formats there is virtually no place you can't play a game against it.
HIARCS is actually an acronym that stands for "Higher Intelligence Auto Response
Chess System", and it truly lives up the name. In 1997, during his rematch with
Deep Blue, Gary Kasparov had this to say about HIARCS: "HIARCS is much better
positionally than Deep Blue." HIARCS also holds
the longest standing reign for maintaining a top 5 rating in the World. It has
the distinction of improving the most per version over the course of it's
history as well. Oh.. by the way.. it's a World Champion as well."
- Peter Skinner
"If
Hiarcs 11 is like a samurai that cut your head with a sharp blade in an instant,
Hiarcs 12 is like a surgeon that extracts your brain from move 10. You simply do
not see you are already dead... HIARCS 12 is even more dangerous, more vicious,
more unstoppable. I am good enough not to fall in tactical mistakes, but Hiarcs
does not need that to crush the opposition. Just a microscopic, a marginal
imprecision, a matter of almost nothing and your fate is already written in the
wall."
- Fernando
Even the world's greatest ever player, Garry Kasparov, used HIARCS to
prepare for IBM's Deep Blue 2!
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Chess Champion Vishy Anand in his matches with Veselin Topalov & Boris Gelfand.
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