What's new
Version 1.0 3rd January 2022
Initial release of HIARCS Chess Explorer Pro
Key features include:
- Advanced Database Support
- HCE database format offers huge databases only limited by memory - 1GB per 8 million games
- Fast searching for players, openings, events, material, pawn structure and positions.
- Comprehensive game database support (PGN, HCE, reads Chessbase CBH, CBV and EPD)
- Extensive game notation with variations, comments, symbols, diagrams and named openings
- Export and publish your work, games and preparation to PGN, PDF, EPUB e-book and HTML
- Reference databases, manage databases, duplicate search and clean up, watch live games
- HIARCS 15 chess engine – more than 200 Elo stronger
- Full range of realistic set Elo levels with human like playing style, have your strength matched
- Very strong analysis & play, more than 200 Elo stronger than HIARCS 14 WCSC engine
- Supports up to 32† threads/cores, and any UCI Chess User Interface (Chessbase/Fritz)
- Player Explorer
- View reports on players, their games, performances and favourite openings and statistics
- Build tree of games and openings of players instantly into a player report with a single click
- Automated repertoire summaries for databases and players. Merge misspelled players
- Game, Opening and Tree Explorers
- Revolutionary multi-source chess trees with moves, statistics from games and advice
- Build an opening repertoire tree instantly from database games to learn and prepare openings
- Access huge online opening books, view multiple books & Chessbase CTG books simultaneously
- Analysis and Evaluation Explorers
- Analyse positions and games with multiple engines simultaneously with load management
- Multiple lines of analysis with stats, move selection and integrate analysis with game notation
- Check games for blunders, inaccuracies and improvements with post game analysis
- Custom Playing modes
- Play against the computer with human-like play and full range of handicap Elo levels
- Choose rating, time controls, start positions and even chess openings for practice
- Train with the guess the move feature, learn and improve your tactical and positional play
- Coach points out mistakes, shows move quality and hints. Rates your play in Elo points
- Engine matches – set up and watch them play or have them play out test or analysis positions
- Packaged Databases
- Top quality database with 300,000+ Master games, IM/GM annotated games, tactical exercises
- Online access to up over to 1,000 GB of endgame tablebases and opening book databases
- Local book with latest GM Theory and access to much larger online books