We also thank Eugene Nalimov and Andrew Kadatch for their kind permission to use their access code
(copyright (c) Eugene Nalimov) and decompression code (copyright (c) Andrew Kadatch) for Nalimov
tablebases in HIARCS chess engines.
System requirements
HIARCS Chess Explorer has the following system requirements:
PC Windows
Requires: PC MS Windows™ XP, Vista, Windows 7 (all versions 32 & 64 bit)
Computer: Any Intel or AMD with at least 512Mb RAM running one of the OSs above
Languages supported in the GUI are English (UK), English (US), French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian
and Spanish.
Included items
HIARCS Chess Explorer includes the following main components:
· HIARCS Chess Explorer Graphical User Interface (GUI) - this is the presentation you see and
interact with.
· HIARCS chess engine(s) - this is the electronic chess brain which analyses and plays chess. HIARCS
Chess Explorer supports engines which comply with the Universal Chess Interface specification. The
HIARCS chess engines included in the package are UCI compatible:
o Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC (available with the Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer product)
o HIARCS 14 WCSC
· Opening books - these are collections of positions, moves and statistics which help show you the
chess openings, play chess openings and classify and name openings played. These electronic books
are used by HIARCS Chess Explorer to present the information within them. They cannot be read by
other software.
· Chess databases - these are collections of players, games and commented games which you can
load, view, modify, play through etc, etc. The following databases are included:
o TopGames - this is a database of games between the world's strongest chess players,
generally of last 20 years.
o AnnotatedGames - this is a database of games annotated by strong chess players including
International Masters and Grandmasters.
o FischerSpassky - this database contains all the games played between these great rival
players.
o KasparovKarpov - this database contains all the games played between these great rival
players.
o Tactics-WAC300 - this database contains 300 tactical puzzles, you can see the solution in the
game header extra tags dialog.
Please note you can add other UCI chess engines including third party UCI chess engines into HIARCS
Chess Explorer. You can also use HIARCS chess engines in other chess GUIs which support UCI engines.
We advise activation of our engines in HIARCS Chess Explorer as we have found many other chess GUIs
are not 100% compatible with the UCI specification for activating/registering engines.
Installation on PC Windows
When you purchase HIARCS Chess Explorer you will be sent an email with a download link where you can
download the HIARCS Chess Explorer installer. To download the HIARCS Chess Explorer Installer please
click on the link you were sent immediately after purchase. On Windows XP you will then see a dialog like
this:
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