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Pocket Chess HIARCS

HIARCS for Pocket PC!
The Ultimate Chess Program for your Pocket PC
The world's strongest PDA chess program, HIARCS 13.1 on your Pocket PC under the excellent CEBoard chess GUI.
HIARCS 13.1 is an improvement on the highest rated PDA chess program in history with 2749 Elo on the official SSDF rating list.

We are proud to present our latest chess product offering the world's strongest chess engine on Pocket PC devices. We have partnered with the excellent CEBoard Pocket PC Chess GUI to provide the great combination of the strongest chess engine together with superb user friendly features for chess players of all strengths. A particular highlight of the new product is the enormous range of special energy saving levels and move advise, highlighting which means players from beginner to expert get the opponents and help they need.

The HIARCS Pocket PC chess engine won the 2008 and 2009 Mescusor Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina ahead of Grandmasters scoring an incredible undefeated 9½/10 in the process. This is a performance of 2938 Elo which is the best ever chess performance rating of a chess program on PDA in a Grandmaster tournament in history. It is not that surprising since HIARCS has the second, third and forth best ever performances as well! It also has many match wins over Grandmasters over the past 6 years.

Prices*: £24.95 / €29.95 / $39.95
*VAT may be applicable for European Union residents.

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Key features of the Pocket Chess HIARCS 13.1 for CEBoard product :

The new premier HIARCS 13.1 chess engine running natively on ARM based Pocket PC devices.

Suitable for all players from absolute beginners to World Chess Championship strength (700 Elo - 2700 Elo!)†.

Can play at any chess standard you set in Elo rating points challenging players of all strengths.

Special Energy Saver Set Elo levels reduce battery use and can be set to your strength.

Coach to highlight square safety, move quality and highlight mistakes

User settable Time control and other levels

Fully configurable chess engine including playing style and search

Over 2.4 million position opening book with latest theory for study and preparation!

Named chess openings and Encyclopaedia of Chess Opening (ECO) codes.

Unique graphical advise capability to demonstrate move options

Highlight destination square by colour denoting quality of move

Presentation of book moves in graphical and textual formats

Play, analysis and watching modes for battery saving operations

CEBoard and HIARCS now support MultiPV analysis

CEBoard is a very flexible GUI for chess analysis and includes these features:

Reads/Writes PGN databases of games

Handles subvariations (any nested level) and comments

allows setup of custom positions

multi-criteria muilti-file search feature:

player's name

game result

ECO code (if present in PGN)

position

material

connection to some dedicated chess computers and external boards via serial i/f

CEBoard support high resolution, colour graphics with multiple boards and piece styles.

Pocket Chess HIARCS 13.1 is a software download only product.
Requires an ARM based Pocket PC running Pocket PC / Windows Mobile 2003 or later.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Alain Zanchetta, author of CEBoard for his excellent help and support in getting CEBoard and HIARCS to work so well together.

Thanks to Gary Preston for the excellent Elite chess pieces, and Bryan Whitby for many of the other excellent piece sets used in CEBoard, Palm HIARCS and HIARCS for iPhone Chess.

A thank you to all the HIARCS helpers who make the production of HIARCS engines possible: Harvey Williamson, Eric Hallsworth, Enrico Carrisco, Christian Goralski and Rob Osborne.

Thanks also to a number of other supporters who prefer to remain incognito.

THANK YOU ALL

"It is exhilarating to play [HIARCS], more, a lot more than with any other strong program. It is a real pleasure to be defeated that way. Fast, lightning, unexpected death." - Fernando Villegas, April 2007

"generally I use HIARCS." - World Chess Champion Vishy Anand 2011, in a recent interview when asked what chess program he uses to analyse with

"HIARCS is much better positionally than Deep Blue." - Garry Kasparov 1997 (after game 5 of the rematch)

World Chess Champion, Vishy Anand, used "Powerful" HIARCS machine in preparations for his 2010 world title match with Super GM Veselin Topalov

"This level of service is one other big reason to buy HIARCS." - John Jackson

For Palm, PC, Mac, Pocket PC and iPhone Chess Software with attitude, features and chess playing strength, you can't beat HIARCS!
† Highest performance reached depends on hardware/device used.

HIARCS Chess Software is designed and developed by Mark Uniacke in England.
HIARCS is a trademark of Applied Computer Concepts Ltd. All other product trademarks acknowledged.
HIARCS Chess Explorer software coming soon
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Acknowledgements

"It is exhilarating to play [HIARCS], more, a lot more than with any other strong program. It is a real pleasure to be defeated that way. Fast, lightning, unexpected death." - Fernando Villegas, April 2007

"generally I use HIARCS." - World Chess Champion Vishy Anand 2011, in a recent interview when asked what chess program he uses to analyse with "HIARCS is much better positionally than Deep Blue." - Garry Kasparov 1997 (after game 5 of the rematch)

"generally I use HIARCS." - World Chess Champion Vishy Anand 2011, in a recent interview when asked what chess program he uses to analyse with

"HIARCS is much better positionally than Deep Blue." - Garry Kasparov 1997 (after game 5 of the rematch)