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re:Hiarcs9 - 2006/12/28 02:39
Hiarcs traditionally has a approach differing from Fritz. While Fritz started out as a speedy searcher, and collected more chess knowledge with every new release, Hiarcs always followed the revese approach. A lot of chess knowlegde and not so much attention to lots of nodes per second.
It makes Hiarcs even more dependable on incorporated chess knowledge that engines which can compensate that lack of chess knowledge with fast searching.
Although todays computer chess programs seem to be the exclusive territory of people valuing programs based on the number of blitz games they win against other programs, Hiarcs is likely to do better in matching human opponents. With "better" I don't mean "stronger", because if you want a super strong opponent, the first freeware program is likely to beat you 999 out of 1000 times, but "better" in terms of mimicing human play, making it a nicer opponent.
I have only experience with Hiarcs 7.32, 8 and 9 but I find it an attractive opponent. It's less suitable for "on the fly" analysis than
Fritz, but may help you out better in analysis of more complex positional situations. As always with computer programs: better, not optimal.
So basically Fritz and Hiarcs seem a bit complementary.
Another program for nice and "recognizable" counterplay is Rebel 12, recently also released for Windows under the ChessPartner GUI..
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