I bought Hiarcs Chess Explorer 1.7 (not yet the Deep one), and don't understand the meaning of the different books, as I am used to "*.ctg"?!
I found two different book-extensions:
1. C:\Program Files (x86)\HIARCS Chess\HIARCS Chess Explorer\data\helper
H14aHumanBook.hbs
What is the function of this "book"? It isn't the opening book, is it? When is this used?
2. C:\Users\*****\Documents\Hiarcs Chess\Books
Hiarcs14bBook.hcs
a) If this is an opening book, I don't understand, why it does not work, when I hide the "*.hbs-book". In that case the software does not show anything and actually does not work. Do I have to set up the Hiarcs-engine in a special way or is this an essential system file?
b) If I upgrade to the latest opening book from December 2013, I probably get something like "Hiarcs14hBook.hcs". Will this delete or replace my other paid "Hiarcs14bBook.hcs"? Do they interfere each other, thus I have to put the older one into a folder or does the engine/gui always take the newest one?
c) If the subscription is over, can I use the latest of my paid opening books furthermore? Are they replaced (automatically), when there is an update or do I get a collection like "14h.hcs", "14i.hcs" and so on...?
d) If I stick to "Hiarcs" and do not Upgrade to "Deep Hiarcs", is it better to use the Local Book or the Online GM-Book, if I have a fast internet connection? Is this the same with "Deep Hiarcs"? ...or is this only when an endgame tablebase is needed?
e) I also bought the iPhone App and the iPad App of Hiarcs. Is it right that I can only use the promotional code of one App, although I paid twice for each App?
f) If I use the opening book-subscription, do I also get an update for my iDevices. At the moment I use the free version "HiarcsBook13064.hbg", which is larger than the integrated one "HiarcsBook13060.hbg".
g) One last question referring pgn-Database: The main reason, why I bought "Hiarcs Chess Explorer" lies in the fact to have the possibility to check different opened databases (pgn-files) at the same time. However, if a pgn-file contains more than one game and I open a second register in order to load another game out of the same pgn-file, the gui opens my already loaded register and not a new one. When I did a copy of the first pgn-file and also open the copy together with the original, I am able to ckeck different games within the "same" pgn-file? Is it possible to change this?
Sorry for so many questions, but I would like to know it, in order to get the most of your brilliant software...
Thank you very much!!!
