HIARCS
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HIARCS is a commercial computer chess program developed by Mark Uniacke. It stands for Higher Intelligence Auto Response Chess System. Hiarcs 10 with the Hypermodern setting placed second on the SSDF rating list for June 8, 2006, with a rating of 2856. [1] Version 11 of HIARCS was released in December 2006. This is the first version to support multiprocessing.
HIARCS is one of the few top-level programs which is also available for Mac OS X as well as Microsoft Windows.
In 2004, HIARCS was ported to the ARM-based Palm OS handhelds. Since 2005, it has been tested to be the strongest chess program available on a handheld device. It is the top handheld on the SSDF list, and was considered the strongest engine in a comprehensive review of 63 handheld chess programs.[2]
The strength of the program comes more from its positional algorithms than from its search speed.[3]
HIARCS 10 appears to have been the engine used by Indian chess player Umakant Sharma, who was expelled from competitive chess for moves via a Bluetooth device implemented in his headwear.[4]
In January 2003 HIARCS played a four game match of chess against grandmaster Evgeny Bareev, the world's number 8 at the time. All the four games were draws ending the match in a tie.
HIARCS won the 1993 World Microcomputer Chess Championship.
[edit] References
- ^ http://web.telia.com/~u85924109/ssdf/list.htm
- ^ http://www.grailmaster.com/misc/chess/comp/chessrev/chessreview.html
- ^ Christian Kongsted, How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess (London: Gambit Publications, 2003), p. 111.
- ^ "Player Expelled for Technology Misuse," The Hindu, http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/06/stories/2006120612002200.htm
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