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Mac Chess Software: HIARCS Chess Explorer
World class chess database, analysis and
game playing program
World Computer Chess Software Champion Engine Suitable
for all players from beginners to the World Chess Champion with human-like play Platform: Apple macOS™ 10.10 or later; Yosemite, El
Capitan,
Sierra,
High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina and Retina graphics.
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
October 2019
HIARCS Chess Explorer now supports Millennium Chessboard via the
ChessLink
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"Clearly the best chess software
for the Apple Macintosh" - Chess Magazine
HIARCS Mac Chess Explorer is a revolutionary chess
database, analysis and playing program for Apple Macintosh
computers. It offers an innovative and intuitive new graphical user interface
with powerful features together with the World Chess Software Champion HIARCS
14 chess engine.
This unique combination is refreshingly easy to use and includes many new
features for chess preparation, analysis and training for players of all
abilities from beginner to Grandmaster. It has specialised features to help
weaker chess players improve their chess including special realistic weakened
opponents, a chess coach which can demonstrate mistakes, show improvements and
help you improve your chess.
Key features include:
World class chess user interface with advanced database,
analysis and game playing features. Supports UCI chess engines
World Chess Software Champion HIARCS
engine, the highest rated single processor chess program
on the official SSDF rating list
Wide range of realistic handicap levels for players of all strengths
with coach advice, opening training and rates your play in Elo
Game analysis, learn openings, prepare for
opponents with near instant trees & searching, live game support and engine matches
Packaged PGN databases (250,000+ games,
~1000 with annotations from IMs & GMs) and opening books with detailed
statistics
Online access to up to 1,000Gb of chess
endgame tablebases and GM opening books
Chess players
will find HIARCS Chess
Explorer for Apple Mac computers has many advanced features not seen in other chess software.
You can analyse your chess games, improve your openings and
prepare for your opponents. Choose set Elo strength opponents to play against. Now with engine v engine matches and live game
presentation as used at the London Chess Classic tournament featuring the
World's Elite players. With any PGN games database you have access to an instant
tree of moves and statistics; and can get opening and performance reports on
databases, chess players and openings. With game databases you can prepare for
players and see their opening repertoire. A database of your games can be
presented as a tree of your opening play. HIARCS
Chess Explorer unique features to report on popular openings are not
available in other software, that is why Chess Magazine have used HIARCS Chess
Explorer to produce the monthly Trends in Chess Openings for the last seven
years!
"I
prefer using HIARCS Chess Explorer to Chessbase" - John Saunders,
Chess Editor of Chess magazine for many years.
The product is
available in two versions,
Deep HIARCS
Chess Explorer HIARCS Chess
Explorer Graphical User Interface (GUI)
October 2019 edition
World Chess Software Champion Deep HIARCS
14 chess engine
Multi-core/multi-processor version
of Deep HIARCS 14 for maximum performance
GUI access to online content of 1,000GB chess endgame tablebases
Online GM+ opening book includes theory
from top class correspondence chess
Packaged games databases with game
annotations from chess masters
Includes an exclusive game annotation
from ex World Chess Champion Vishy Anand Email delivery, free
1.updates and upgrade discounts Click to order Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer for MacOS
Price*:
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HIARCS Chess
Explorer HIARCS Chess Explorer
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
October 2019 edition
Single core version of World Champion HIARCS 14
Game databases and
annotations from chess masters
GUI access to standard online content
Email delivery, free 1.updates and
upgrade discounts Click to order
HIARCS Chess Explorer for Mac OS
Price*:
£41.65 / €49.95 / $49.95
SALE: 20% discount today £33.32
/ €39.96
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"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, Australasian Chess.
The independent SSDF rating group report Deep HIARCS 14
defeated Deep Fritz 13 at tournament time controls by 28-12 (70% +149 Elo perf).
Download games.
Key feature
sets:
Advanced
Chess Graphical User Interface
Easy packaged installation with auto install of chess
engines
HIARCS
Chess Explorer GUI can use any UCI compatible Mac chess engine
High
quality piece set graphics (Retina enabled), board textures,
artist designed icons
Integrated features allow easy navigation of databases, games and
players
Comprehensive manual and context sensitive help is included
Multi-lingual support for English, French, German, Italian, Polish,
Portuguese,
Russian and Spanish
HIARCS
14 World Chess Software Champion
HIARCS
14 chess engine closely integrated with Chess Explorer GUI, engine
can also be used any UCI compatible Mac GUI
Provides incredibly strong analysis, advice and play
- single or multiprocessor version available
Famous
for its human-like and entertaining attacking playing style
New human play realism on weaker levels
World's strongest commercial tournament openings book accessible directly
by
the engine
Book and position learning are built-in helping
HIARCS improve as it plays or analyses
The
chess engine generally used by World Chess Champion Vishy Anand
free
updates in the HIARCS 14 series
Game
Explorer
Comprehensive PGN database capabilities
including simultaneous handling of multiple databases, searching and
filtering by game header, openings and positions, ECO and opening name
classification, game lists and much more. Max single PGN database size
limit is 1.75 million games. Multiple databases can be loaded.
Extensive game notation support with
variations, embedded text comments, annotations, diagrams, chess symbols
and chess opening naming – all of which can be viewed, added and edited.
Intuitive game entry with automatic suggestions based on move quality.
Game print facilities with diagrams.
Download remote PGN databases and watch live games
as they happen - Update live games with your analysis and have the
main game continuation merged as the game progresses. As used at the
London Chess Classic by the World's strongest chess players.
Player
Explorer
View
players, their performances and favourite openings
Navigate to games and openings of players directly from the player
dossier
Integrated and automated repertoire summaries for databases and players
Openings
Explorer
World’s
first multi-source real-time chess tree with live updates and filtering
Create an opening book tree of the moves
of your games automatically
Gives
new insight into chess openings from different perspectives
Integrated access to a regularly updated online chess opening books
HIARCS
Book subscribers get integrated access to additional online content
All
books and databases provide detailed opening statistics
Analysis
Explorer
Analyse
positions and games with multiple engines
Multiple lines of analysis with history/statistics/preview boards, add analysis to game
notation
Post
game analysis with any chess engine provides variation commentary
Check
your own games for blunders and improvements
Lock engine analysis to a position while you navigate
and modify the game
Integrated online access to massive Terabyte endgame databases to give
precise answers about endgame outcomes (about 250 DVDs worth of data!)
Custom
Game Play mode
For
playing games against the computer using any UCI engine available
Integrated HIARCS chess engine has realistic human-like handicap levels
with set Elo strength settings suitable for players from beginner to
Grandmaster.
Choose
rated or unrated games with time controls or casual play
Choose
start positions and even opening selection for opening practice
The
game play mode has an integrated coach to point out mistakes,
distinguish move quality, point out good puzzle moves and give hints
Engine matches - set up matches and watch chess
programs play each other
Packaged
Databases
Latest
top quality books containing statistics from GM games
Top quality GM database of games with consistent
official Fide player names
Annotated database of latest games including commentary from IM & GMs,
even an exclusive annotated game by the World Chess Champion Vishy Anand.
HIARCS Mac Chess Explorer is a
software download product. It is a complete chess application with
Graphical User Interface, chess engines and chess games databases. The
ultimate chess
software for the Apple Macintosh.
Acknowledgements
HIARCS Chess Explorer
is designed and developed by Michal Rudolf and Mark Uniacke.
HIARCS chess engines
are designed and developed by Mark Uniacke.
Chess piece set images
by Eric de Mund and Bruno Rizzuti based on fonts by Eric
Bentzen and Armando Marroquin.
User Manual written by
Mark Uniacke.
Language translations:
English by Mark Uniacke, French by Alain Zanchetta, German by
Christian Goralski, Italian by Bruno Rizzuti, Polish by Michal
Rudolf, Portuguese by Claudio Zamana, Russian by Beglar Jobava and Spanish by Amador Cuesta.
Many games and annotations provided by
www.chess.co.uk.
Beta testing and feedback
by Ole Christensen, Chris Cook, Richard Fowell, Eric
Hallsworth, Jonathan Naud, Matt Read, Bruno Rizzuti and
Harvey Williamson and a number of other testers who prefer to remain
private.
Move sounds by Ole Christensen.
Thank you to all those people (including those
who prefer to remain private) who helped make HIARCS Chess Explorer a better
product.
We also thank Eugene Nalimov and Andrew
Kadatch for their kind permission to use their access code (copyright (c)
Eugene Nalimov) and decompression code (copyright (c) Andrew Kadatch)
for Nalimov tablebases in HIARCS chess engines.
THANK YOU!
"generally I use
HIARCS." - Five time World Chess Champion
Vishy Anand, 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 & 2012 world
title matches
"This level of service is
one other big reason to buy HIARCS." -
John Jackson
† Highest performance
reached depends on computer used.
Computer Chess Software
with world class chess engine playing strength.
HIARCS is designed and developed by Mark Uniacke in England. *VAT and local sales tax may be applicable. Prices given in GBP, USD
and EUR and subject to change without notice.
Other currencies are subject to conversion rates from GBP.
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