The best Mac software for chess database, analysis and game playing HIARCS 15 series chess engines, huge advance in Elo rating Suitable for all players: Beginners to the World Chess Champion with human-like play Platform:Runs on Intel and M1/M2/M3 based Apple Mac OS 10.14 Mojave or later - including latest macOS Sonoma and Retina Graphics Playing ability: Beginner (750 Elo) to World Champion strength and beyond (3450+ Elo)† with human-like play Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
"Clearly the best chess software for the Apple Macintosh" - Chess Magazine
"I prefer using HIARCS Chess Explorer to Chessbase" - John Saunders, Chess Editor of Chess Magazine for many years.
HIARCS Chess Explorer Pro a highly advanced chess database, analysis and playing program for Apple Mac computers - the established best chess software for Mac OS. It offers a very powerful user interface with the strongest ever HIARCS chess engine and world class chess database capabilities. This advanced software supports major chess database formats from Chessbase (CBH and CBV), the PGN chess standard and the new fast and powerful HCE format which supports huge databases only limited by memory, instant searching, chess tree, opening reports and much, much more. Move your chess forward with the best chess software for macOS. This unique combination offers easy to use features managing chess databases, preparation, analysis, play, openings and training for players of all abilities from beginner to Grandmasters and beyond. August 2023: HCE Pro v1.2.1 with new HIARCS 15.2 chess engine, support for Millennium eBoards and the latest macOS 13 Ventura.
Single-Core
£62.45
$79.95
€74.95
✓HIARCS 15 series engine - 3300 Elo† Occasional engine updates
✓Uses PGN, HCE, PDF, EPUB, HTML Reads Chessbase CBH/CBV/CTG
✓Millennium electronic chessboard support and MasterBase database
✓New GM 2023 online book (6.5 million positions)
✓Single Core Performance
✗1,000GB online endgame tablebases
✗1 year online book access
Multi-Core
£89.95
$119.95
$95.96
€99.95€79.96
✓Deep HIARCS 15 series engines 3400+ Elo† with updates via HCE Pro
✓Uses PGN, HCE, PDF, EPUB, HTML Reads Chessbase CBH/CBV/CTG
✓Millennium eBoard support and new 2023 MasterBase game collection
✓New GM+ 2023 online book (15.5 million positions)
✓Multi-core Performance to 16 cores
✓1,000GB online endgame tablebases
✗1 year online book access
Premium
£124.95
$169.95
€149.95
✓Latest Deep HIARCS 15 series engines 3450+ Elo† + 1 year of HIARCS X updates
✓Uses PGN, HCE, PDF, EPUB, HTML Reads Chessbase CBH/CBV/CTG
✓New 2023 MasterBase game collection and Millennium eBoard support
Existing Mac HIARCS Chess Explorer customers are eligible for a discount. This is ONLY available through the HIARCS Chess Explorer Mac OS App. Please launch HCE and you will find a popup notification with the discount.
HIARCS Chess Explorer Pro is a software download product fulfilled immediately by email with online activation. It is the ultimate chess application for Mac OS with a world class chess user interface, chess engines and chess games databases, opening books and endgame tablebases.
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 series chess engines – more than 250 Elo stronger
Full range of realistic set Elo levels with human like playing style, have your strength matched
Very strong analysis & play, more than 250 Elo stronger than HIARCS 14 WCSC engine
Supports up to 32† threads/cores, and any UCI Chess User Interface (Chessbase/Fritz)
New HIARCS 15.2 +50 Elo with human like play, book and position learning
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
