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Using a fixed iteration depth does not do what you might think, firstly it is NOT a fixed depth of search, it is a fixed iteration depth where each engine will search beyond that depth in different ways to seek quiescent positions. Some will explore only captures, others will explore captures and c...

Hello Well in mine opinion , there are 2 programmers who have human play style David Kittinger (Novag )and Ed Schroder (Mephisto) Kr,Hans I used to be interested in "stand-alone" chess computers 30 years ago but things like iPad are a dream come true for me. Is this forum primarily for de...

Hi, There is a build of Komodo for the Mac. When you purchase Komodo direct from the authors (as opposed to buying the Chessbase version) you get the Windows, Linux, Mac and Android versions all as a bundle. And I'm happy to report that it works flawlessly in HCE, as far as I can tell. HTH I'd be v...

I think ChessKing 4 allows you to constrain the engine to look ahead only a fixed number of moves and I think that would be a very good training tool (for me). I had a quick look around Hiarcs Chess Explorer for Macintosh for something similar and couldn't find it. Can you constrain Hiarcs to a fixe...

The reason I originally purchased Hiarcs was because I thought it played the most human style game and my experience has been generally good as far as that goes. I recently heard a GM say that Rybka & Houdini played a more "human" style than other engines. really? So that's my question...

Is it possible to run Komodo in Hiarcs Chess Explorer for Macintosh?

Do you think Komodo plays a more "human" style than Hiarcs between 1800 and 2200 ELO?

There is not fixed value used for blunders and mistakes so it is not possible to configure such a fixed value. When you check the "show only errors, not inaccuracies" box in analysis I assume "error" and "inaccuracy" are defined numerically in terms of pawn equivalents...

Whether Hiarcs ELO compare to FIDE or USCF ratings I wonder if they correspond to themselves as expected? For instance, does Hiarcs playing at 1800 win 64% of games against Hiarcs playing at 1700 but 76% of games against Hiarcs playing at 1600? I may be wrong about the exact percentages but I hope c...

Can you define the definition of "error" in analysis explorer? For instance, if I only want to see blunders resulting in -/+2.9 pawns or -/+4.9 pawns, can I do that?

But Chess games being rather static displays won't enjoy the benefits of the extra graphic processing power. I just looked at Hiarcs on a new iPad and everything is razor sharp EXCEPT the pieces !!! Yes , the new display is so amazingly good that by comparison the edges of the pieces look fuzzy com...

The new ipad3 has twice the resolution of IPad2 I think the new iPad has twice the number of horizontal pixels and twice the number of vertical pixels... so wouldn't the resolution increase by 4X ? It would be nice to hear from Mark or other Hiarcs devs about what to expect. Will there be an update...

I think the new iPad has a dual core CPU and a quad core graphics processor.

The more important question to me is how well the old Hiarcs utilizes 4X more pixels !

I'm definitely buying a new iPad but wonder about waiting for the next version of Hiarcs.

Nobody really knows which resolution the next screen will have ... so I think any discussion about this is just pure speculation ... :roll: Whether existing graphics will automatically scale up to utilize improved graphics isn't necessarily dependent on exactly which resolution the next screen will...

Hi, I'm going to buy an iPad 3 when it's released and wonder if Hiarcs graphics will automatically scale up to take advantage of the anticipated increase in screen resolution of iPad 3 vs. iPad 2 ? Apparently many iPad apps can do this, but I'm not sure about that... OR ... will a new version of iPa...

Hi, I'm going to buy an iPad 3 when it's released and wonder if Hiarcs graphics will automatically scale up to take advantage of the anticipated increase in screen resolution of iPad 3 vs. iPad 2 ? Apparently many iPad apps can do this, but I'm not sure about that... OR ... will a new version of iPa...