HIARCS Palm Chess Pro 12.1
The Strongest and best featured PDA Palm Chess Program!
Suitable for all players from beginner to strong Grandmaster with realistic handicap levels & coaching.


"In my view PALM HIARCS has the best range of FEATURES for all players beginners, hobby, club, master, with TIGER 2nd in this category, while HIARCS has easily the TOP PLAYING STRENGTH, with GENIUS 2nd."  Palm Chess comparison by Eric Hallsworth, Selective Search Magazine

   

The new Hiarcs 12.1 Palm Chess Pro really is the ultimate Palm chess program. HIARCS for Palm has proven to be significantly stronger than all other Palm and Pocket PC chess software since 2004 and now it's much stronger than ever before! It is the strongest and most successful handheld chess player in history. You can read about its amazing exploits including 4 match wins over top Grandmasters and its Grandmaster tournament win on our Palm Rating & Games page. Now the new major update, HIARCS Palm Chess Pro is over 100 Elo stronger again!

With the pedigree of a past World Chess Software Champion, HIARCS Palm Chess Pro offers the premier chess engine to learn from, analyse with or simply play against. Great features for beginners to help learn and improve their game including a full range of weaker levels tailored for realistic opposition and rapid learning, a coach and a rating system to measure and report progress. HIARCS Palm Chess Pro now has superb energy saving handicap set Elo levels massively extending battery life both in play and analysis.  Now with databases of the greatest players and games for you to enjoy and learn from. In fact HIARCS Palm Chess Pro makes a perfect travelling companion for players of all strengths and all ages. Packed with many more features than any other Palm chess program, HIARCS for Palm Chess is really beyond comparison.

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Why not learn, play or analyse chess while you travel?  HIARCS Palm Chess Pro makes a perfect companion on a journey. Free palm chess game demo software, opening books and updates available in the download area. 

Prices*: £24.95 / €29.95 / $39.95
*VAT may be applicable for European Union residents.

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Take HIARCS for Palm anywhere and everywhere: the perfect travel companion for coaching, preparation and playing!

HIARCS runs on any PalmOS based device running PalmOS 3.5 or later, see the compatibility list for details of the PDA devices supported, but don't just take our word for it, why not download the FREE demo version of HIARCS for Palm and see for yourself! 

Three steps to chess enjoyment:
1) Download HIARCS for Palm PDAs and TRY IT for FREE
2) If you like it BUY IT here
3) REGISTER IT to unlock ALL the great features and strength. Registered customers also get full free access to a variety of tournament opening books with GM play and analysis!

To register you simply send the unique registration code (given by HIARCS when it is running on your device) to us with your name, PDA used and the invoice reference number. By return email we will send you a key to unlock ALL the features.

Hiarcs comes with both 68K and ARM native chess engines to maximize your handheld computer performance and includes a free tournament book. Further opening books will be made available to registered owners for free on the Palm chess download page.

If you have an ARM based PDA no other chess program comes close to HIARCS for sheer chess strength, features and enjoyment. Why not check out the features of HIARCS Palm Chess here or a comparison of the best Palm chess software here

The most successful handheld chess player in history!
 

Dedication

I would like to dedicate HIARCS Palm Chess Pro to my late father Max Uniacke, without whose love and encouragement I would of been a lesser person and HIARCS would never have existed in the first place.

Acknowledgements

Many people have helped the HIARCS Palm Chess product through countless hours of testing and valuable feedback suggestions which we have used to improve the product features. Special thanks must go to Gary Preston for the Elite chess pieces, and Bryan Whitby for the Challenger 3D effect chess pieces.

We also thank Didzis Cirulis, Eric Hallsworth, Thorsten Czub, Djordje Vidanovic for their help in the past on Palm HIARCS.

Without these people HIARCS for Palm PDAs would not be the product it is today. THANK YOU!

March 2009
HIARCS Palm Chess Pro v12.1 with +100 Elo strength and many great new features.

November 2008
Palm Chess HIARCS 9.7 on Zire 31 defeats GM Dusan Popovic 3½-½ in match!

April 2006
HIARCS for Palm Chess tops the Congress Pichay Invitational ahead of 2 GMs, 8 IMs, 5 FMs and 18 NMs!

February 2006
HIARCS 9.6 is top rated PDA chess program on SSDF rating list.

September 2005
HIARCS on Palm defeats Polish GM Piotr Bobras 3-1 in 4 game match!

June 2005
HIARCS on Palm defeats top Russian Super-GM Sergey Volkov 3-1 in 4 game match!

May 2005
HIARCS on Palm outperforms all other Palm chess programs in tournament with dedicated chess computers. 

January 2005
HIARCS on Palm defeats Grandmaster 3-1 in 4 Game Internet Match for a 2809 Elo performance rating!