World Championship winning computer chess software program & downloads for chess database, analysis & play on PC, Mac and iPhone

Mac Chess Explorer
World class chess database, analysis and 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

"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 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

For expert chess players 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!

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*: £74.95 / €83.29 / $89.95

    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

"I prefer using HIARCS Chess Explorer to Chessbase" - John Saunders, Chess Editor of Chess magazine for many years.

You can read the online manual for HIARCS Chess Explorer here. HIARCS Chess Explorer has integrated, searchable and context sensitive help, a detailed 98 page user manual and 24 videos explaining how to use the software.

A list of updates and features since version 1.0 can be read here.

"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, 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
	Full set of configurable HIARCS UCI engine parameters
	*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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"Clearly the best chess software for the Apple Macintosh" - Chess Magazine

Acknowledgements

"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)

"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)