HIARCS
HIARCS (acronym for Higher Intelligence Auto Response Chess System) is a commercial chess program by the Englishman Mark Uniacke.
Revision history
The first versions of the program originated in 1980 as school projects: Version 0.3 ( March 1981) and 0.5 ( March 1983) were written in BASIC and ran on a PDP-11/70. From 1987 it was rewritten in the C programming language and developed a sideline of Uniacke. In 1991 he won with his program, the Amateur World Championship for microcomputers, published in 1992 version 1.0 for MS -DOS. Appeared in 1993 version 2.0; a slightly improved version 2.1 won the Microcomputer World Cup in Munich in the same year. 1994 version 3.0 was released, followed in 1995 version 4.0. From 1996 HIARCS has been sold by the company ChessBase. Version 4.0 of the 1996 was the first version of Microsoft Windows, and Version 7:32 1999 one of the first PC chess programs that could access while Train search on Nalimov endgame databases. Published in December 2006, version 11, released the following year to the update was available as UCI engine for single and multiprocessor systems via download only, but not in ChessBase. This does not have its own user interface and can be operated under any surface that UCI engines supported, so for example, Fritz, Chess Assistant or Arena. In March 2008, appeared to version 12, which is sold both by download and again on ChessBase. Version 13 was released in May 2010 as a download. In August 2012, appeared Version 14 for Mac and Windows in conjunction with its own user interface Chess Explorer.
Successes against human players
HIARCS took in the 1990s in part several times on AEGON tournament in The Hague, competed at the human player against the best chess programs of its time. The program generated a total of 18.5 points from 30 games. In 1997, Version 5.0 are both a draw against world-class players V. Anand and Jan Timman in two exhibition games. In the same year the newer version 6.0 became the first chess program a contest with tournament reflection against an International Master, as it won 4-2 in Ottawa ( 3 wins, one defeat, 2 draws ) against Deen Hergott (Elo 2395 ). In games, which were held in 2002 on the Internet, won 8.0 against Boris Gulko with 1.5:0.5 and played 1-1 against Ilia Smirin. In January 2003, reached an experimental version 8196 which was released the same year along with version 9.0, in a competition in Maastricht against Evgeny Bareev 2-2. All four games ended in a draw. 2005 defeated a program designed for the Palm OS more grandmasters, such as Jan Gustafsson, in rapid games.
Versions for Mac and PDA
Since 1994 there is a version for Apple Macintosh, which is currently under the name Sigma Chess HIARCS (Version 6.2 ) is sold. There are also versions for Personal Digital Assistant ( Palm Chess Pro, Version 12.1u November 2009), which is considered the strongest PDA chess playing program, as well as Pocket PCs and iPhones.
Playing strength
Deep Hiarcs 12 on a Q6600 quad-core processor ( 2.4 GHz) at the end of September 2008 on the ranking of the Swedish Computer Chess Association SSDF with an Elo rating of 3040 at rank 4 version for Palm OS where it reaches an Elo rating of 2389th