HIARCS Chess Explorer for Mac and PC

World class chess database, analysis and game playing program for Mac & PC
World Chess Software Champion HIARCS 14 chess engine
Playing ability: Beginner (750 Elo) to World Champion strength and beyond (3200+ Elo)† with human-like play
GUI Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
Detailed user manual and help videos in English
Platform: Runs on any Mac since 2010, Intel or Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4†)
Supports latest Apple macOS™ 15 Sequoia and all macOS since 10.14 Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma incl. Retina graphics
Platform: Intel based PC computers. PC Microsoft Windows™ 7, 8, 10 & 11 (all editions)

HIARCS Chess Explorer is the established best graphical chess user interface on PC & Mac for chess players of all strengths to analyse and play chess games, positions and explore and learn opening theory and much more. The powerful Chess Explorer products offer excellent applications for chess players on Mac or chess players on PC Windows. They combine both advanced database functionality and chess game play to help you learn and improve with the chess software. February 2025: new HIARCS Chess Explorer version 1.13 available now.

HIARCS Chess Explorer for Mac

World class chess database, analysis and game playing software for Mac

World Chass Software Champion HIARCS 14 Chess Engine
Platform: Runs on any Mac since 2010, Intel or the new Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4†)
Supports: Latest Apple MacOS™ 15 Sequoia and MacOS versions since 10.14 Mojave
Playing ability: Beginner (750 Elo) to World Championship strength and beyond (3100 Elo)†

HIARCS Chess Explorer for Mac is a the established best chess software for chess database, analysis and game playing on Apple Macintosh computers. It offers an intuative graphical user interface with powerful features together with the World Chess Software Champion HIARCS 14 Chess Engine. This product 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.

• Advanced chess user interface, PGN chess database, analysis and game play
• World Chess Software Champion HIARCS Engine, supports UCI chess engines
• Realistic playing level strengths with coach advice, rates your play in Elo
• Game analysis, blunder check, learn/prep openings, instant trees and search
• Player repertoire, opening books, analyse, play games, run engine matches
• Connect to your Millennium eBoard to analyse and play chess on a physical board
• Packaged PGN databases (200,000+ games) and opening books with statistics
• Online access to chess endgame tablebases and GM opening book

Find out more about HIARCS Chess Explorer for Mac

HIARCS Chess Explorer for PC

Classic chess database, analysis and playing software for PC Windows

World Chass Software Champion HIARCS 14 Chess Engine
Platform: PC MS Windows™ 7, 8, 10 & 11 (all editions)
Suitable for all players from beginners to the World Chess Champion with human-like play
Playing ability: Beginner (750 Elo) to World Champion strength and beyond (3100 Elo)†

HIARCS Chess Explorer for PC is a the established best chess software for chess database, analysis and game playing on Windows PC computers. It offers an intuative graphical user interface with powerful features together with the World Chess Software Champion HIARCS 14 Chess Engine. This product 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.

• Advanced chess user interface, PGN chess database, analysis and game play
• World Chess Software Champion HIARCS Engine, supports UCI chess engines
• Realistic levels of all strengths with coach advice, rates your play in Elo
• Game analysis, blunder check, learn/prep openings, instant trees and search
• Player repertoire, opening books, analyse, play games, run engine matches
• Connect to your Millennium eBoard to analyse and play chess on a physical board
• Packaged PGN databases (200,000+ games) and opening books with statistics
• Online access to chess endgame tablebases and GM opening book

Find out more about HIARCS Chess Explorer for PC

Prices*: £41.65 / €49.95 / $54.95

Chess Databases, Analysis, Openings and Game Play

Both Mac Chess Explorer and PC Chess Explorer offer advanced chess database features and professional analysis tools using UCI chess engines. Our Chess Opening books are widely used by the World's strongest chess players and HIARCS Chess Explorer offers configurable chess play using realistic handicap levels, set Elo abilities and adaptive chess levels to make chess learning fun.

Key Features:

• Graphical Chess User Interface with high quality graphics and easy to use powerful features, a comprehensive manual, context sensitive help and videos on how to use the product
• HIARCS 14 World Chess Software Champion chess engine - incredibly strong analysis, advice and play. The engine generally used by Five Time World Chess Champion Vishy Anand.
• Custom Game Play Mode with realistic human-like handicap set Elo levels for players from beginner to Grandmaster. Choose opponents or have HIARCS match your playing ability and maintains a chess rating for you
• Integrated Coach to point out mistakes, good moves and hints. Choose the chess openings to practice and play against
• 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
• 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
• Explore Players their games, performances and favourite openings with easy game navigation and an automated repertoire summary for databases and players
• Analyse Positions and Games with multiple engines, view multiple lines of analysis with history/statistics. Post game analysis with variations - blunder check your games
• Connect to Millennium ChessLink Boards via USB serial cable to play, enter and analyse using a real chess board with natural piece movements for exchanges, corrections and sliding pieces
• Packaged Databases of high quality GM games including game commentary by IMs and GMs. Online access to massive chess endgame and opening book databases

Chess Explorer allows you to explore chess in new ways

Chess Explorer is the application which contains many unique chess explorer tools for you to explore chess and learn to improve your game. It offers multiple custom Chess Explorers for various aspects of chess databases, analysis and play.

Chess Openings Explorer
Opening Explorer offers the ability to explore chess openings and the latest opening theory. For millions of chess opening positions it gives moves, statistics and unique play recommendations.

Chess Tree Explorer
Chess Explorer gives access to databases of games, positions and moves using a powerful and easy use database and filter tree integrated with our flexible Opening Explorer.

Chess Player Explorer
The unique Player Explorer offers the ability to explore chess players games, openings and performances. Simply click on the openings to see the games played by that player in the opening all extracted from any database you use.

Chess Database Explorer
Database Explorer enables features to to access, view, sort and adjust the games within databases. Intuitive yet powerful search functions enable even casual users to find games in their databases.

Chess Analysis Explorer
Analysis Explorer allows deep chess analysis using any UCI chess engine including a World Chess Software Champion HIARCS chess engine(s).

Chess Game Explorer
Game Explorer provides professional chess game notation, editing and navigation. Prepare your analysis, add comments, chess symbols and diagrams. Annotate and print your work.