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Chess - HIARCS 13.1: Challenge yourself with a chess program that never gives up



With the pedigree of a past World Chess Software Champion, HIARCS Palm Chess Pro offers the premier chess engineto 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 arating 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 perfecttravelling 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.


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




Chess - HIARCS 13.1




Three steps to chess enjoyment:1) Download HIARCS for Palm PDAs and TRY IT for FREE2) If you like it BUY IT here3) REGISTER IT to unlock ALL thegreat features and strength. Registered customers also get full free access to avariety of tournament opening books with GM play and analysis!


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


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


"It is the best Palm program (I have them all) and the strongest"- Henri Arsenault"A truly world-class achievement inchess software development" - Bob Newell "Now I add to your virtues extraordinary customer support!" - James Breeden


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


News, Press & Customer Review/comments September 2010HIARCS Palm Chess Pro 13.1 with +70 Elo strength releasedJuly 2010HIARCS Palm Chess Pro 12.1v releasedNovember 2009HIARCS Palm Chess Pro 12.1u released stronger than ever!


HIARCS 13 UCI is a chess engine and is available by softwaredownload only. HIARCS 13 UCI requires a PC running MS Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7 (all versions 32 & 64 bit) with a UCI compatible GUI (a Graphical User Interface is not included in the package). We recommend the excellentfree Arena GUI which supports UCI chess engines like HIARCS UCI. Alternatively other quality GUIs supporting UCI chess engines can be separately purchased e.g. Fritz, Chessbase, Chess Assistant, Shredder, Aquarium, Chess Partner etc


For 20 years HIARCS has been among the very best chess programs in the world. Ever since its first World Championship success in 1991 HIARCS has maintained its position as one of the world's premier chess playing programs.


HIARCS is famous for its unique human-like playing style and is renowned for playing sharp attacking chess and having the ability to find the unexpected move or variation that is so useful when looking for novelties and new possibilities in a position. HIARCS 13.2 has enhanced that much loved playing style through a deeper search and a more accurate positional evaluation. It is even more capable of building deep attacking positions against the enemy king and executing exciting mating attacks in a very un-computer like manner. This enables HIARCS to play interesting, distinctive aggressive chess while being sensitive to the needs of the position. This has improved HIARCS in all phases of the game and even in quieter positions HIARCS 13.2 is able to be more selective about the variations it explores to reach deeper to achieve a better understanding than previous versions leading to much stronger play (100 elo stronger than HIARCS 12).


As an analysis partner HIARCS is second to none with its ability to learn from the positions it analyses and plays. This is an essential feature for all chess players interested in analysing games, studies, positions and particularly the opening as it guides HIARCS into a greater understanding of chess positions and their possibilities than ever before. For many years top chess players including World Champions have used HIARCS as an important analysis partner for this very reason.


This combination of strength, playing style and learning makes HIARCS 13.2 ideal for all players looking for an intelligent chess partner that learns and improves with you. A new HIARCS openings book is also included which has been enhanced with many improvements over HIARCS 12 and is an excellent appitizer for the outstanding HIARCS 13 Pro opening book which is available separately.


Deep HIARCS 13 is the ultimate multi-core/multi-processor HIARCS chess engine capable of utilising up to 16 CPU cores simultaneously. This results in much faster analysis and playing strength depending on your hardware e.g. on Dual-Core hardware Deep HIARCS 13 runs nearly twice as fast as on a single core processor. It even works on single core processor systems so you can use it today in the knowledge it can grow with your new hardware to future proof your purchase decision.


The Hiarcs 13 Pro book is a very strong and varied opening book derived from top correspondence and over the board human games together with the best computer games giving a superb combination with the latest cutting edge chess theory and a wealth of novelties to provide a huge repertoire of finely tuned variations. In addition to this strong basis the book has many novelties and variations that have been analysed by HIARCS to eliminate mistakes and improve the quality of book. The book is right up to date as of mid December 2010 including even games from the London Chess Classic and Moscow tournaments.


Hiarcs 13 customers who already have the Hiarcs 13 Lite opening book will be delighted to know the Pro book adds up to 50 Elo to the strength of the program. The book is written by Mark Uniacke, the author of HIARCS, and he has been supported by Correspondence IM Harvey Williamson and computer chess expert Eric Hallsworth, both of whom are also part of Team HIARCS.


The greater part of the material on which the Sicilian Sveshnikov Powerbook 2023 is based, comes from the engine room in playchess.com: 199 000 games. This imposing number has been supplemented with another 14 000 games from the Mega Database and from cor


Contains the latest HIARCS Palm Chess Pro product (version 13.1) for ARM and 68K PalmOS based devices. Also included is a small size openings book, ECO opening names and 6 games databases: Alekhine-CapablancaDB, Fischer-SpasskyDB, Kasparov-KarpovDB, Anand-KasparovDB, Anand-TopalovDB and PalmHIARCS Matches. For even stronger performance we recommend the addition of the free Large openings book or free Massive openings book on this page. Please note the HIARCS menu is accessed using the Palm menu icon or key (depending on device).


This page contains answers to common questions youmay have, along with some tips and tricks that we have found useful and presented here as questions. This pagewill grow over time as new questions and answers are added. Please note the latest version of the Sigma Chess GUI is 6.2 and latest version of theHIARCS chess engine is 13.1b. All the examples on this page equally apply to the latest versions (with the version names being new of course).


The latest version of Sigma Chess GUI is version 6.2 and is now bundled in Pro form with the new HIARCS 13.1 engine! This engine is a Universal Binary and thus runs at full speed on Intel Macs. Additionally, a multi processor version is available for even stronger play.


You will notice the HIARCS chess engine is currently unregistered and hence it is running as HIARCS 13.1 SP Lite with limited strength and features. Click the OK button and you will be given an opportunity to register the HIARCS engine with the license key you received shortly after purchase.


Enter your License name and code to activate the HIARCS chess engine. If you have not yet purchased the product or don't have your license details to hand, please click "Later" to continue. You will be able to enter the license details later when you have them.


This confirms the HIARCS engine is installed. To now use the HIARCS chess engine as the default chess engine click the "HIARCS" button. Use the "Sigma" button only if you do not want to use the HIARCS chess engine.


This explains that HIARCS 13.1 SP is registered, but you must restart it in order for the activation process to complete. You can restart the HIARCS engine either by quitting and restarting the Sigma Chess GUI or by following the instruction on restarting the HIARCS chess engine below.


After registering the HIARCS chess engine it has to be restarted so that the activation process can complete. This is how to restart the HIARCS chess engine (or any other UCI engine) in the Sigma Chess GUI.


If you have another engine listed (e.g. Sigma Chess), you can select HIARCS 13.1 SP from the Engine selector at the top of the dialog. If HIARCS 13.1 is not listed there that is because you did not select to install when originally asked. Please see our FAQ question on adding a new UCI chess engine here.


Not much has changed, only the engine is now "Not loaded". Now click the "Start" button to restart the HIARCS chess engine. If you are doing this to complete the activation process you will now see the following dialog:


This confirms the HIARCS chess engine is now fully activated. Select the OK button. The Engine Manager dialog will now look something like this and you will be able to configure the many engine setting options. 2ff7e9595c


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