HIARCS Milestone Achievements
Since 1991 HIARCS has proven to be one of the world's strongest chess
programs. This was achieved not through brute-force methods, but through a much
more chess knowledge intensive approach which has led to a more human like
playing style.
HIARCS stands for Higher Intelligence Auto Response Chess System.
Below you will find the major milestones and achievements of HIARCS through
the years:
 | 1980 HIARCS is born in a physics classroom! |
| 1989 HIARCS competes in its first tournament, the first Computer Olympiad
in London. |
| 1991 World Amateur Microcomputer Chess Champion, Vancouver, Canada. |
| 1992 HIARCS 1.0 released for PC MS-DOS. Rating on PC
386/33Mhz 1900 Elo. |
| 1993 World Computer Chess Olympiad Champion, London, England. |
| 1993 HIARCS 2.0 released. Rating on PC 486/50Mhz
2125 Elo. |
| 1993 World Microcomputer Chess Software Champion, Munich, Germany. |
| 1993 HIARCS 2.1 World Championship version released.
Rating PC 486/66Mhz 2140 Elo |
| 1994 HIARCS 3.0 released. Rating on PC Pentium/90Mhz
2275 Elo |
| 1995 HIARCS 3.0 top computer, AEGON man-machine
tournament, The Hague,
Holland (performance rating Elo 2631). |
| 1995 PC and Mac HIARCS 4.0 released. Rating on PC P/133Mhz 2320
Elo. |
| 1996 HIARCS 4.0 is the first ever Chessbase chess
engine. |
| 1996 HIARCS 5.0 released. |
| 1997 PC and Mac HIARCS 6.0 released to great acclaim as the
strongest PC chess program ever. Rating on PC PPro/200Mhz 2430 Elo. |
| 1997 HIARCS 6.0 released as a Chessbase chess
engine. |
| 1997
Garry Kasparov specifically requested an experimental HIARCS 6.X version for his
preparations for the Deep Blue 2 match. |
|
1997
HIARCS 6.0 defeated I.M. Deen Hergott 4-2 in a match at long time controls,
Ottawa, Canada (first PC in history to win a match against a FIDE I.M.).
Play through the match
games with commentary. |
|
1997
World’s highest rated chess program HIARCS 6.0 leads on all rating lists
including a 71 Elo lead on the SSDF list. |
| 1998
HIARCS 6.0 with learning used by leading players in their
tournament preparations. |
|
1998
PC and Mac HIARCS 7.0 released. Rating on PC P2/450Mhz 2535 Elo. |
|
1999
HIARCS 7.0 rated top on all computer rating lists. |
| 1999
PC HIARCS 7.32 released as a Chessbase product. The first PC chess program to
use tablebase endgame databases in its search. |
|
2002
PC HIARCS 8.0 defeats
GM Boris Gulko 1½-½
and
draws with GM Illya Smirin 1-1
in Internet man-machine challenges. |
|
2002
PC HIARCS 8.0 released as a Chessbase product. Rating on PC Athlon/1.2Ghz 2685
Elo. |
|
2003
PC HIARCS 8.X draws match
2-2 with Super GM Evgeny Bareev (Elo 2729), Maastricht, The
Netherlands. |
|
2003
PC HIARCS 9.0 released including the Bareev engine. HIARCS 8 Bareev rating on
PC Athlon/2Ghz 2720. HIARCS 9.0 rating on PC Athlon/2Ghz 2750. |
|
2004
HIARCS 9.2 on a single processor came equal first in the Internet Chess Club
computer tournament (2nd after play off to 8xmultiprocessor Crafty version) |
|
2004
HIARCS 9.3 for Palm released as the strongest chess program ever on PalmOS
based devices. Palm HIARCS rating on Palm T3/T5/C/400Mhz 2614 Elo. |
|
2005
Palm HIARCS 9.5a defeats GM Jan Gustafsson 3-1 in internet match achieving a
2809 Elo performance rating. |
| 2005 Palm HIARCS defeats GM Sergey Volkov 3-1 and
GM Piotr Bobras 3-1 in two four game matches. |
| 2005 PC HIARCS 10.0 released with largest jump in
playing strength for 12 years. |
| 2006 HIARCS wins annual Internet Chess Club open computer chess blitz
tournament and is second in the main tournament. |
| 2006 HIARCS for Palm becomes the
first handheld chess computer in history to win a GM tournament when it won
the 2nd
Congress Pichay Invitational in the
Philippines and defeated super GM Mark Paragua. |
| 2006 PC HIARCS MP just born and competes for the first time ever and
gains third in the
Dutch Open Computer Chess Tournament |
| 2006 PC HIARCS 11.0 released with a multiprocessor
capability for the first time |
| 2007 HIARCS wins annual
Internet Chess Club open computer
chess blitz tournament for the second year running and is second in
the main
tournament. |
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