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This is where we'll announce the most recent
additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's
changed, take a look here first. We will place
notices here regarding product updates, scheduled releases etc.
![[New!]](smallnew.gif) Tuesday, 1st
June
2021
 | June 2021 Online Book
Access update, over 106 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
53,527,019 positions/moves,
2,323,226
variations based on 1,826,591 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book:
24,411,502
positions/moves, 1,038,967 variations based on 911,153 GM human games
Tournament book with 28,039,830
positions/moves and 1,617,579
variations based on 1,4749,503
top quality games |
Monday, 25th May
2021
Saturday, 1st
May
2021
| May 2021 Online Book
Access update, over 106 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
53,420,757 positions/moves,
2,318,030
variations based on 1,822,247 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book:
24,650,604
positions/moves, 1,110,333 variations based on 907,500 GM human games
Tournament book with 28,039,830
positions/moves and 1,617,579
variations based on 1,4749,503
top quality games |
Monday, 19th April
2021
| April 2021 Online Book Access
update, over 105.4 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Tournament CTG book with 28,039,830
positions/moves and 1,617,579
variations based on 1,4749,503
top quality games
Human Reference book 53,117,417 positions/moves,
2,251,773
variations based on 1,820,639 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book: 24,309,077
positions/moves, 1,034,020 variations based on 907,048 GM human games
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Saturday, 17th April
2021
| Mid April 2021 Online
Book Access update, over 104 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
53,117,417 positions/moves,
2,251,773
variations based on 1,820,639 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book: 24,309,077
positions/moves, 1,034,020 variations based on 907,048 GM human games
Tournament CTG book with 26,631,111
positions/moves and 1,910,946
variations based on 4,962,159
top quality games |
Thursday, 1st April
2021
| April 2021 Online Book Access
update, over 103.8 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
53,086,499 positions/moves,
2,249,760
variations based on 1,818,639 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book:
24,253,715
positions/moves, 1,030,980 variations based on 904,351 GM human games |
Monday, 15th March
2021
| Mid March 2021 Online Book Access
update, over 103.8 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
53,004,006 positions/moves,
2,246,273
variations based on 1,816,090 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book:
24,223,295
positions/moves, 1,029,741 variations based on 903,438 GM human games |
Monday, 1st March
2021
| March 2021 Online Book Access
update, over 103.7 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,933,431 positions/moves,
2,242,676
variations based on 1,813,106 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book:
24,163,873
positions/moves, 1,026,667 variations based on 900,831 GM human games |
Wednesday, 17th February
2021
| Mid February 2021 Online Book Access
update, over 103.6 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,923,649 positions/moves,
2,242,254
variations based on 1,812,786 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book:
24,160,792
positions/moves, 1,026,541 variations based on 900,731 GM human games |
Monday, 1st February
2021
| February 2021 Online Book Access
update, over 103.5 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,842,365 positions/moves,
2,237,978
variations based on 1,809,210 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book:
24,082,722
positions/moves, 1,022,459 variations based on
897,293 GM human games |
Monday, 18th
January
2021
| Mid January 2021 Tournament CTG book
update over 26.6 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Tournament CTG book with 26,631,111
positions/moves and 1,910,946
variations based on 4,962,159
top quality games
|
| Mid January 2021 Online Book Access
update, over 103 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,827,375 positions/moves,
2,237,359
variations based on 1,808,725 high quality human games
GM++ top human
chess book:
24,076,550
positions/moves, 1,022,213 variations based on
897,102 GM human games |
Friday, 8th
January
2021
| January 2021 Online Book Access
update, over 102 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,807,748 positions/moves,
2,236,554 variations based
on 1,808,105 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
24,068,653 positions/moves,
1,021,895 variations
based on 896,862 GM human games
Tournament book with 24,599,456
positions/moves and 1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363 top quality games |
Wednesday, 16th
December
2020
| Mid December 2020 Online Book Access
update, over 102 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,747,098 positions/moves,
2,233,005 variations based
on 1,803,001 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
24,054,871 positions/moves,
1,020,472 variations
based on 893,326 GM human games
Tournament book with
24,599,456 positions/moves and 1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363 top quality games |
Tuesday, 1st December
2020
| December 2020 Online Book Access
update, over 102 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,660,763
positions/moves,
2,228,876 variations based
on 1,799,633 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,987,598 positions/moves,
1,017,199 variations
based on 890,596 GM human games
Tournament book with
24,599,456 positions/moves and 1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363 top quality games |
Thursday, 26th November 2020
Monday, 23rd November
2020
Sunday, 1st November
2020
Saturday, 10th October
2019
Tuesday, 6th October
2020
Thursday, 1st October
2020
| October 2020 Online Book Access update,
over 100.7 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,295,476 positions/moves,
2,212,011 variations based
on 1,786,725 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,815,133 positions/moves,
1,008,801 variations
based on 883,682 GM human games
Tournament book with
24,599,456 positions/moves and 1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363
top quality games |
Thursday, 15th September
2020
| Mid September 2020 Online Book Access
update, over 100.5 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with
play recommendations
Human Reference book
52,267,738
positions/moves,
2,210,814 variations based
on 1,782,870 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,799,631 positions/moves,
1,008,155
variations
based on 883,190 GM human games
Tournament book with
24,599,456 positions/moves and
1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363
top quality games |
Wednesday, 2nd September
2020
| September 2020 Online Book Access
update, over 100.5 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with
play recommendations
Human Reference book
52,194,024
positions/moves,
2,2207,209 variations based
on 1,782,870 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,739,971 positions/moves,
1,005,189
variations
based on 880,720 GM human games
Tournament book with
24,599,456 positions/moves and
1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363
top quality games |
Thursday, 20th August
2020
| Mid August 2020 Online Book Access
update, over 100.4 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with
play recommendations
Human Reference book
52,161,849
positions/moves,
2,205,836 variations based
on 1,781,841 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,733,111 positions/moves,
1,004,919
variations
based on 880,503 GM human games
Tournament book with
24,599,456 positions/moves and
1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363
top quality games |
Saturday, 1st August
2020
| August 2020 Online Book Access update,
over 100.3 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,059,184
positions/moves,
2,199,844 variations based
on 1,778,348 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,636,571 positions/moves,
999,222
variations
based on 877.239 GM human games
Tournament book with
24,599,456 positions/moves and
1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363
top quality games |
Tuesday, 21st July
2020
| Mid July 2020 Online Book Access
update, over 100 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
52,049,254
positions/moves,
2,199,419 variations based
on 1,778,033 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,633,678 positions/moves,
999,105
variations
based on 877.147 GM human games
Tournament book with
24,599,456 positions/moves and
1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363
top quality games |
Friday, 10th July
2020
| July 2020
Tournament CTG Opening Book update,
24.6 million position for Book Subscribers available now
Plus online books:
Human Reference book 51,969,995
positions/moves,
2,195,431 variations based
on 1,774,723 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,562,007 positions/moves,
995,493
variations
based on 874,115 GM human games
Tournament book with
24,599,456 positions/moves and
1,917,305
variations based on 4,936,363
top quality games |
Wednesday, 1st July
2020
| July 2020 Online Book Access update,
over 99.8 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with play
recommendations
Human Reference book
51,969,995 positions/moves,
2,195,431 variations based
on 1,774,723 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,562,007 positions/moves,
995,493
variations
based on 874,115 GM human games
Tournament book with 24,267,425 positions/moves and 1,900,921
variations based on 4,920,878 top quality games |
Thursday, 25th June 2020
Wednesday, 17th June
2020
| Mid June 2020 Online Book Access
update, over 99.8 million positions, with statistics - all analysed with
play recommendations
Human Reference book
51,962,701 positions/moves,
2,195,113 variations based
on 1,774,495 high quality human games
GM++ top human chess book:
23,556,341 positions/moves,
995,271
variations
based on 873,943 GM human games
Tournament book with 24,267,425 positions/moves and 1,900,921
variations based on 4,920,878 top quality games |
Thursday, 4th June
2020
Monday, 1st June
2020
Monday, 18th May
2020
Saturday, 2nd
May
2020
Wednesday, 20th April
2020
Wednesday, 8th April
2020
Thursday, 2nd April
2020
Wednesday, 18th March
2020
Thursday, 12th March
2020
Monday, 2nd March
2020
Friday, 14th February
2020
Saturday, 1st February
2020
Saturday, 25th January
2020
Monday, 6th January
2020
Friday, 3rd January
2020
Wednesday, 1st January
2020
| We wish all our customers and visitors a Happy
New Year for 2020. |
Monday, 23rd December
2019
Wednesday 18th December
2019
Monday 16th December
2019
Thursday, 12th December
2019
Wednesday, 4th December
2019
Tuesday, 26th November
2019
Monday, 18th November
2019
Monday, 4th November
2019
Tuesday, 15th October
2019
Friday, 4th October
2019
Thursday, 3rd October
2019
Wednesday, 2nd October
2019
Tuesday, 1st October
2019
Monday, 16th September
2019
Sunday, 1st September
2019
Monday, 19th August
2019
Monday, 29th July
2019
Tuesday, 16th July
2019
Thursday, 4th July
2019
Monday, 17th June
2019
Saturday, 1st June
2019
Wednesday, 15th May
2019
Wednesday, 1st May
2019
Saturday, 20th April
2019
Friday, 5th April
2019
Monday, 25th March
2019
Saturday, 2nd March
2019
Friday, 1st February
2019
Sunday, 27th January
2019
Friday, 4th January
2019
Tuesday, 1st January
2019
Monday, 17th December
2018
Monday, 3rd December
2018
Thursday, 22nd November
2018
Monday, 19th November
2018
Tuesday, 6th November
2018
Tuesday, 23rd October
2018
Monday, 8th October
2018
Monday, 3rd September
2018
Tuesday, 27th August 2018
Monday, 20th August 2018
Monday, 6th August
2018
Monday, 23rd July 2018
Tuesday, 3rd July
2018
Friday, 25th May
2018
Sunday, 1st April
2018
Thursday, 1st March
2018
Wednesday, 28th February
2018
Monday, 1st January
2018
Sunday, 1st October
2017
Thursday, 14th September
2017
Thursday, 7th September
2017
Saturday, 1st July
2017
Friday, 30th June
2017
Tuesday, 6th June
2017
Monday, 1st May
2017
Monday, 24th April
2017
Thursday, 30th March
2017
Thursday, 30th March
2017
Sunday, 5th February
2017
Sunday, 5th February
2017
Saturday, 31st December
2016
Saturday, 31st December
2016
Thursday, 20th October
2016
Friday, 30th September
2016
Friday, 30th September
2016
Thursday, 30th June
2016
Thursday, 30th June
2016
Thursday, 31st March
2016
Thursday, 31st March
2016
Thursday, 24th March
2016
Wednesday, 10th Febraury
2016
Thursday, 31st December
2015
Thursday, 31st December
2015
Wednesday, 30th September
2015
Wednesday, 30th September
2015
Tuesday, 30th June
2015
Tuesday, 30th June
2015
Tuesday, 31st March
2015
Tuesday, 31st March
2015
Wednesday, 31st December
2014
Wednesday, 31st December
2014
Thursday, 18th December
2014
Saturday, 22nd November
2014
Sunday, 19th October
2014
Wednesday, 8th October
2014
Monday, 30th September
2014
Monday, 30th September
2014
Monday, 30th June
2014
Monday, 30th June
2014
Friday, 16th May
2014
Monday, 12th May
2014
Tuesday, 22nd April
2014
Monday, 31st March
2014
Monday, 31st March
2014
Friday, 28th March
2014
Friday, 14th March
2014
Wednesday, 19th February
2014
Tuesday, 14th January
2014
Tuesday, 14th January
2014
Tuesday, 31st December
2013
Tuesday, 31st December
2013
Sunday, 1st December
2013
Monday, 11th November
2013
Monday, 11th November
2013
Thursday, 31st October
2013
Thursday, 24th October
2013
Monday, 30th September
2013
Monday, 30th September
2013
Wednesday, 11th September
2013
Sunday, 18th August
2013
Saturday, 17th August
2013
Thursday, 25th July
2013
Thursday, 25th July
2013
Sunday, 30th June
2013
Sunday, 31st March
2013
Tuesday, 19th March
2013
Tuesday, 19th March
2013
Saturday, 9th March
2013
Tuesday, 5th March
2013
Tuesday, 5th March
2013
Friday, 1st March
2013
Tuesday, 22nd January
2013
Monday, 21st January
2013
Monday, 31st December
2012
Monday 24th December 2012
Saturday, 24th November
2012
Saturday, 24th November
2012
Monday, 19th November
2012
| 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.
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Wednesday, 31st October
2012
Friday, 12th October
2012
Friday, 12th October
2012
Sunday, 30th September
2012
Sunday, 26th August
2012
Sunday, 26th August
2012
Saturday, 30th June
2012
Saturday, 30th June
2012
Monday, 25th June 2012
Tuesday, 15th May
2012
Wednesday, 28th March
2012
Tuesday, 28th February
2012
Wednesday, 1st February
2012
Saturday, 31st December
2011
Saturday, 26th November
2011
Wednesday, 23rd November
2011
Thursday, 29th September
2011
Tuesday, 13th September
2011
Saturday, 10th September
2011
Saturday, 3rd September
2011
Monday, 29th August
2011
Sunday, 28th August
2011
Thursday, 28th July
2011
Thursday, 14th July
2011
Monday, 4th July
2011
Tuesday, 28th June
2011
Monday, 27th June
2011
Friday, 10th June
2011
Saturday, 21st May
2011
Monday, 16th May
2011
Wednesday, 6th April
2011
Thursday, 31st March
2011
Monday, 28th February
2011
Friday, 11th February
2011
Friday, 24th December
2010
Thursday, 23rd December
2010
Thursday, 28th October
2010
Friday, 10th September
2010
Thursday, 2nd September
2010
Tuesday, 22nd June
2010
Monday, 31st May
2010
Saturday, 22nd May
2010
Friday, 21st May
2010
Monday, 17th May
2010
Tuesday, 19th April
2010
Sunday, 14th March
2010
Wednesday, 10th March
2010
Monday, 8th March
2010
Wednesday, 11th November
2009
Monday, 28th September
2009
Tuesday, 22nd September
2009
Saturday, 19th September
2009
Friday, 28th August
2009
Saturday, 15th August
2009
Monday, 7th June
2009
Sunday, 8th March
2009
Thursday, 1st January
2009
| New discount pricing on PC, Mac, Pocket PC products. |
Sunday, 14th December
2008
Wednesday, 3rd December
2008
Friday, 28th November
2008
| HIARCS Chess Software price reductions on every
product. Mac and PC multiprocessor products reduced by $20 for a limited time. |
Monday, 17th November
2008
Monday, 26th October 2008
Monday, 6th October
2008
Monday, 1st August
2008
| HIARCS 12.1 is the new engine for Pocket Fritz 3. |
Sunday, 15th June
2008
Monday 5th May 2008
Wednesday, 2nd April
2008
Friday, 28th March 2008
| HIARCS 12 UCI SP and MP web pages are now available:
read more about HIARCS 12 UCI here!
HIARCS 12 UCI single and multi-core/processor versions
available to existing customers NOW.
Available publicly soon. |
Monday, 31st December 2007
Friday, 16th November 2007
Monday, 13th August 2007
Tuesday, 31st July 2007
| New HIARCS Forums launched for discussions of HIARCS computer chess, chess
and wider subjects with regular competitions and special discounts for
registered members. Visit the
HIARCS Forums here. |
Thursday, 26th July 2007
Friday, 8th June 2007
| Free setup installers now available for the original Hiarcs versions from
1981 and 1983. You will find them on our free chess
software page. |
Friday, 11th May 2007
Friday, 27th April 2007
Thursday, 26th April 2007
Sunday, 22nd April 2007
| Preparations underway for the free chess software
giveaway of older HIARCS chess products. We hope this will include the
versions from the early 1990s like Hiarcs 1, 2, 2.1, 3.0 etc. Just to clarify,
sorry we will not be giving away any of our latest software products!
|
Tuesday, 10th April 2007
Monday, 2nd April 2007
Wednesday, 21st February
2007
| HIARCS 11.1 UCI version which became ICC Computer Chess Blitz Champion
2007 is available as a free update for HIARCS 11 customers. All customers
should of received an email about this update. |
Tuesday, 20th February 2007
Wednesday, 6th December 2006
| HIARCS 11 UCI and HIARCS 11 MP UCI web pages are now available: read more about HIARCS 11
UCI here!
HIARCS 11 UCI single and multiprocessor versions
available to existing customers NOW.
Available publicly Monday 11th December 2006. |
Monday, 6th November 2006
| The first prototype Deep Hiarcs MP version wins trophy for 3rd place in
Dutch Open Championship in Leiden, The Netherlands. Impressively coming above
well known programs like Deep Shredder 10, Fruit X, Deep Gandalf, Deep Sjeng
and The King. Despite some hardware problems this was a good first outing for
Deep Hiarcs MP considering the software only ran in multiprocessor form a week
ago! |
Monday, 30th October 2006
| The first ever Deep Hiarcs multiprocessor version now running on our
development machines just in time for the Dutch Open in Leiden! |
Thursday, 28th September 2006
Tuesday, 30th May 2006
Thursday, 6th
April 2006
| HIARCS for Palm wins a GM master tournament in the Philippines, see the
report and games. |
Friday, 17th
March 2006
Monday, 27th
February 2006
Sunday, 12th
February 2006
Thursday, December 29th 2005
| New Sigma Chess 6.1.3 HIARCS 10 released. Sigma chess now supports
engine-engine matches! |
Monday, December 12th 2005
New products all round:
Wednesday, September 14th 2005
Friday, 8th
July 2005
Friday, 10th June 2005
Tuesday, 7th June 2005
Sunday, 29th May 2005
Saturday, 7th May 2005
| New results added to the Ratings and Results page.
Sigma Chess HIARCS is compatible with the new Mac OS 10.4 Tiger release. |
Tuesday, 8th March 2005
| New results added to the Ratings and Results page
including downloadable games and estimated ratings for all the top Palm
& Pocket PC software. Fantastic results in defeating all the strongest
dedicated chess computers. Ratings now based on 436 games! |
Sunday, 13th February
2005
Monday, 7th February
2005
| New results added to the Ratings and Results page
including downloadable games and estimated ratings for all the top Palm
& Pocket PC software. Ratings now based on 384 games. |
Tuesday, 25th
January 2005
Sunday, 23rd
January 2005
Sunday, 16th
January 2005
Wednesday, 12th
January 2005
| Made PGN databases of games available on the Palm
Ratings and Results page where only cbv archives existed before. |
| Updates to Mac pages. Sigma Chess HIARCS Pro available
within a week. |
Sunday, 19th December 2004
| Our new Mac HIARCS product for Mac OS X will be available
very shortly and promises to be the
strongest and best featured chess software ever for Apple Macintosh computers.
You can read more about this exciting new chess program for Macs here. |
| Results and rating for Palm HIARCS have been updated
based on 344 games. |
Wednesday, 15th December 2004
| New Palm HIARCS 9.5a Christmas update available here.
Various other updates to our web pages have been made. |
Sunday, 12th December 2004
| New Palm HIARCS 9.5 competes in the CSS Online Masters 2005 against some
of the fastest PCs! Find out more here. |
Monday, 6th December 2004
| New Palm HIARCS 9.5 version now released offering intermediate levels and
other coaching enhancements. Find out more here. |
Friday, 12th November
2004
| New results against Tasc R30 and Mephisto Genius 68030 added to the Ratings and Results page. Ratings now based on
308 games. |
Saturday, 18th September 2004
Thursday, 19th August 2004
Monday, 16th August 2004
| New larger opening books available here. Huge
tournament book will be available later this week. |
Sunday, 8th August 2004
| New results added to the Ratings and Results page
including downloadable games and estimated ratings for all the top Palm
& Pocket PC software. Ratings now based on 260 games. |
Tuesday, 3rd August 2004
| New results added to the Ratings and Results page
including downloadable games and estimated ratings for all the top Palm
& Pocket PC software. A full rating list update will be done based on
about 250 games this weekend. |
Friday, 30th July 2004
Friday, 23rd July 2004
| Official transfer from old ACC website including hit counter. |
Saturday, 17th July 2004
Monday, 5th July 2004
| HIARCS 9.41 Palm Chess Software now available here.
Free for registered customers. |
| Many web pages updated including new test positions on the comparison
page. |
Friday, 2nd July 2004
Monday, 28th June 2004
Friday, 25th June 2004
| HIARCS 9.32 for Palm now available here. |
Tuesday, 22nd June 2004
| HIARCS 9.31 for Palm now available here. |
Monday, 21st June 2004
| New look HIARCS web in place for release of Hiarcs for PalmOS
based devices. |
Thursday, 13th May 2004
| Strongest chess engine ever to run on PalmOS devices now in testing... |
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