This review is not a user manual but a review from my user perspective. Hiarcs openings books are unique, accelerate your chess analysis, and provide you with many novelties. Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro is fast and offers more value for money than Chessbase. This is good news for all of us, but especially for Mac users who do not want to run Chessbase in Bootcamp or on a virtual machine. In conclusion, finally, there is a real alternative for Chessbase on the market. Position from Giri – Mamedyarov: the Hiarcs opening book suggests 9. Live broadcast: you can follow live tournaments if you have the web address of the pgn.Īn example of the Tata Steel Masters Group: ![]() The Hiarcs Pro openings book is not just a tree generated from games but a tree with an opinion! Please note that Hiarcs Pro supports multiple engines simultaneously, and you can have the database show in which games this position has occurred. The best choice is 8.e4 the third played move. Ne5 is the most played move but questionable. There have been numerous occasions of top GMs playing a spectacular novelty that was just a standard move in the Hiarcs book.Īn example from my private Chessable Grünfeld Defence course:Īfter 7. The recommended move by the book is an excellent starting point and provide direction. These two features accelerate your analysis tremendously. The book makes a recommendation for every position using colour coding and annotations (!, !?, ?).It combines correspondence, engine and strong GM games.The opening book (30 million positions) is unique for the following two reasons: The latter makes it very handy to check the best lines in between rounds in rapid tournaments. It is a subscription model: each year, you receive four updated openings books that you can use In Hiarcs, Chessbase, and the Hiarcs iPad and iPhone apps. Hiarcs has been selling its opening books for years. In Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro, you can have multiple opening books open in different tabs, making it for instance possible to compare your repertoire, the Hiarcs opening book with the tree of your opponent's games. In addition, in Hiarcs Pro, you can have more information on one screen, while in Chessbase, you have to toggle tabs to access the same information. Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro provides slightly more performance information. Let's look at how to Prepare against Player function compares.Īs you can see, the information is very comparable. This probably makes me a relatively heavy user compared to the average club player. To watch and analyze online chess broadcasts.To prepare online chess lessons for my students (Steps Method).To prepare for my opponent in OTB tournaments and online tournaments.To create Chessable courses (25 total of which six are commercial).To write articles for New In Chess Yearbook (analyze novelties from grandmaster games).I use ChessBase and now Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro for the following functions: Converting the Mega Database (over 9 million games) to the Hiarcs database format was easy and quick. The software runs on both Windows and Mac (Chessbase only runs on Windows)ĭatabase management in Hiarcs Pro is very fast, and this applies not only to searching for players and positions but also for pawn structures and material.New Deep Hiarcs 15 engine versus Fritz engine.Opening tree based on top GM games (12 million positions).Access to 6 men Nalimov endgames tablebases. ![]() You can play against Hiarcs and run engine matches to help you understand positions better.
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