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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) 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
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2020
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May
2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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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
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
Sunday, 1st October
2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2017
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2015
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2015
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2015
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2015
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2015
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2015
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2015
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2015
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2014
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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2013
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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
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2009
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2009
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2009
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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!
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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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