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Macintosh Sigma Chess
6.2 HIARCS 13
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 | Sigma Chess 6.2 Pro Graphical User Interface |
| HIARCS 13.1 single processor and multi-core/processor versions as universal binaries! |
Existing customers should have received an email
detailing a discount offer for upgrading from Sigma Chess HIARCS 12 to Sigma
Chess HIARCS 13. If you are an existing customer and have not received upgrade
details please email us here:
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The Sigma Chess
HIARCS combination gives the ultimate chess package for the Macintosh with the
strongest ever chess engine on the Macintosh and the best features integrated
into a stylish GUI. Key features of the
full Sigma Chess Pro HIARCS product:
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The new premier HIARCS 13.1 single and multi-core/processor chess engine in UCI form |
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Strongest HIARCS chess program ever for Intel and G4/G5 Macintosh computers (universal binary) |
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Can play at any chess standard you set in Elo rating points from beginner to World Champion |
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Unlimited levels and time controls: Casual, Blitz, Active, Fischer and Tournament |
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Tournament book with the latest opening theory for study and preparation with new Book Monitor |
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Nalimov tablebase support of up to 6 pieces for perfect play in the endgame* |
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Multiple playing styles, Solid, Normal and Aggressive; together with hypermodern play. |
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Configurable Smart Search, Selectivity, Threats and Combination settings |
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Positional and book learning capabilities so Hiarcs improves as it plays |
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Dramatic improvements over the Lite version,
40 times faster, 600 Elo stronger, 62 moves deep |
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New Sigma Chess 6.2 Graphical User Interface with Pro features and improved MultiPV |
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UCI engine support so you can run other UCI Mac OS X engines in addition to Sigma Chess & HIARCS |
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Sigma Chess now supports engine-engine matches - see those engines do battle! |
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Monitors your play, measures your progress with Elo history graph and statistics |
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Sigma Chess Pro now supports engine-engine matches and multiPV display! |
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Sigma Chess GUI game collections (PGN & EPD) and HTML web page export including "Rules of Chess" collection |
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High resolution, colour graphics with 2D/3D boards and multiple piece styles |
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Purchase includes discount coupon of 20% off future purchases on www.hiarcs.com (valid until 31st March 2011) |
*Endgame tablebases are a separate purchase or download.
Sigma
Chess HIARCS are software download products.
Requires
an Intel or PowerPC Apple Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Just two steps needed to enjoy the
capabilities of the latest Sigma Chess HIARCS:
1) Download Sigma Chess HIARCS Lite and TRY IT for FREE.
Sigma Chess HIARCS Lite will run for free in demo/unregistered mode
(restricted features and strength) until you purchase and receive the license
key to activate the software.
2) If you like it BUY IT
by secure online payment. You can buy Sigma Chess HIARCS for
Macintosh by a variety of
secure online payment methods including credit and debit cards. You can even pay
by cheque/check or wire transfer. Soon after payment is completed you will
receive a personalised license key to enable the purchased product option and
get full free access to the full tournament opening books with GM play and
analysis! Now you have a Super GM on your Apple Macintosh!
Further details about secure online purchasing of Sigma Chess HIARCS can be found on our How to Buy page.
The Multiprocessor version is strongly recommended for Intel based Macs as they have multiple processor cores and the MP version can take full advantage of them.
In demo form Sigma Chess HIARCS has the following limitations:
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HIARCS 13.1 Lite chess engine with chess strength limitations:
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Playing styles and all other configuration options are fixed. | ||||||||||||||||
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Only the first 10 moves of the opening books will be playable | ||||||||||||||||
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Hash tables are limited to 16Mb. |
If you like the product please purchase it so that you have access to the full strength and features of the Sigma Chess HIARCS product. Purchasing a the product enables us to provide you with an activation key to unlock the features of the product chosen. See below for the product options.
Find out how to buy the Mac HIARCS chess engine here
You can view the Sigma Chess 6.2 series User Manual online. Please visit the Sigma Chess website www.sigmachess.com to see further details of the Sigma Chess Macintosh software and a full Sigma Chess GUI feature list or to obtain downloads for Mac OS 9 or earlier.
Your support of Sigma Chess and the Mac HIARCS chess engine enables us to provide you with even better Apple Macintosh chess products in the future. Thank you for your support!
Special thanks to Ole Christensen (Sigma Chess) for his superb Sigma Chess software, quite simply the best chess GUI for the Macintosh.
A big thank you to Richard Fowell for his superb beta testing and suggestions over the years which have helped make the Sigma Chess HIARCS product better. Richard has helped test HIARCS Mac versions since the first HIARCS chess product for the Macintosh way back in 1995 and his detailed knowledge and thorough testing is truly outstanding.
These people have helped make the product the best it could be. THANK YOU!
SigmaChess is copyright (c) Sigma GameWare.
We 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 the HIARCS chess engine.
"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 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.
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