World Class PC, Mac and Palm Chess Software on
your desktop and in the Palm of your hand!
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Welcome to HIARCS, a World Championship winning chess software engine now available for Palm, PC and Macintosh computers and PDAs. Merry Christmas to all our visitors!
Why not learn, play or analyse chess while you travel? HIARCS for Palm Chess makes a perfect companion on a journey. Free palm chess game demo software, opening books and updates available in the download area.
"It is the best Palm program (I have them all) and the strongest"
- Henri Arsenault HIARCS Championship Chess for Palm is a software download product - £19.99 (tax free outside EU). LEARN MORE DOWNLOAD HOW TO BUY
December 2005 |
HIARCS 9.6 for Palm now available (free for registered customers) September 2005 HIARCS on Palm PDA defeats Polish GM Piotr Bobras 3-1 in match! June 2005 May 2005 January 2005 December 2004
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 | Suitable for all players from beginner to World Championship strength |
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Can
play at any chess strength you set in Elo challenging all players*. |
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Monitors your play, measures your progress with Elo history graph and statistics. |
| Nalimov tablebase support of up to 6 pieces for perfect play in the endgame*. |
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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. |
| UCI Integration with the highly acclaimed Sigma Chess 6.1.3 GUI. |
| Sigma Chess now support engine-engine matches!* |
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Sigma Chess GUI game collections (PGN & EPD) and HTML web page export. |
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High resolution, colour graphics with 2D/3D boards and multiple piece styles. |
| Includes the HIARCS 9.6 and HIARCS 10 chess engines! |
*Sigma Chess HIARCS Pro features.
Sigma Chess HIARCS is a software download product - £19.99 (tax free outside EU).
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February 2005
"The
best computer chess period... serious players will discover HIARCS, the
chess engine Gary Kasparov considers "better than Deep Blue",
and the heavy-hitters will find almost everything they could ask from a
computer chess companion in Sigma Chess"
Version tracker, Five star review
It is now possible to run HIARCS for Palm on your Pocket PC by using the excellent StyleTap Palm platform for Pocket PC. We have tested HIARCS for Palm running under the StyleTap platform on Pocket PC and HIARCS runs fast with almost full features, effectively offering an early Pocket Chess HIARCS.
To find out more about this interesting possibility visit our Pocket Chess HIARCS page.
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PC Chess HIARCS
10HIARCS chess software has long been renowned for its human-like playing style, now Hiarcs 10 goes much further with improved chess knowledge, a more aggressive style and an ability to search very deeply for the truth of a position. New chess knowledge enables Hiarcs 10 to identify deep attacking motifs long before they become apparent especially concerning king attacks and unbalanced positions and material. Read more about HIARCS for PC... Key features:
| Hiarcs 10 chess engine by Mark Uniacke
| Special Hiarcs 10 opening book by Eric Hallsworth and
Mark Uniacke
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for all players from beginner to World Championship strength. | Graphical interface with many training features for beginners, club
players & GMs
| Supports Chess960 / Fischer Random Chess | Exclusive photo-realistic 3D boards in various designs
| Access to the ChessBase internet server “Playchess.com” (free for 12
months)
| Database with 1,000,000 games | |
For over 10 years some of the best chess players in the world have been using HIARCS to prepare, analyse and play against. HIARCS is the result of 19 years active development by author Mark Uniacke and was the first PC chess program in history to win a match with an International Master and in 2003 it became the first chess program on a single processor to draw a match against a Super GM. In 2005 HIARCS on a Palm PDA became the first and only handheld chess program in history to defeat a GM in a match. Even Garry Kasparov used HIARCS to prepare for Deep Blue 2!
Unsure if you need a professional chess program
like HIARCS? - read our "Why Choose
HIARCS?" page.
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"I've been in the chess computer software biz for over a decade and I can tell you that I have never heard more raves from users over any other chess program than I've heard over Hiarcs. Users love this chess engine. I've received literally scores of highly favorable e-mails and comments from happy Hiarcs owners over the years. If you never buy another chess engine, you owe it to yourself to add Hiarcs to your stable of chess playing programs. Playing against Hiarcs is very much like playing against a strong human player." - Hiarcs 9 review by Steve Lopez 17/10/2003"HIARCS is much better positionally than Deep Blue." - Garry Kasparov 1997 (after game 5 of the rematch)For Palm, PC & Mac Chess Software
with attitude, features and chess playing strength, you can't beat HIARCS!
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