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1. Here you can see the overall statistics including wins draws losses and unfinished games The opening statistics are very interesting and cover the whole database showing the 20 most popular openings for white or black You can click any hypertext in blue and HIARCS Chess Explorer will populate the Game Explorer game list with the games matching the criteria for example clicking the 274 on the Grunfled Defence Classical line will show all the white wins in the Classical Grunfeld opening in the game list This innovative feature gives a powerful instant connection between Players Openings and Games and a convenient mechanism to rapidly access games in particular openings The Update list button can be used to update the statistics if you have added modified or deleted any games to this database since the Player Explorer dialog was opened Analyse game Analyse game Analysis format Annotating engine Deep HIARCS 14 WSC F Remove previous analysis Color Co Both White Black Accessed by clicking the analyse game shortcut icon in the Analysis Explorer pane The dialog is also accessed from the Game gt Analyse Game menu item You can see a description of this dialog in the Analyse game section of Analysis Explorer Edit header Edit header Extra tags Players White Elo 2734 Black Kramnik Vladimir Elo Tournament Event Sparkassen GM Game Information Round ECO Date
2. Remove symbols Remove previous moves Remove next moves Undo Redo changes You can undo and redo unlimited operations performed in the Game Notation on the current game since it was loaded Setup position Ctrl shift s Copy d Paste d Redo Cl Insert d Remove j Promote variation ctrl Preferences Accessed on the Edit menu or via shortcut keystrokes HIARCS Chess Explorer maintains a record of all your changes to the current game notation since the game was loaded This is extremely useful as it means you can Undo any mistakes you made in changing the Game Notation equally you can Redo reapply changes made after an Undo provided you have not made other changes since you performed the Undo Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations is also defined on the menu you can use the keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function For example Ctrl Z for Undo Ctrl Y for Redo Game Explorer Quick search E 7 Nr White Elo Black Elo Event Site Round Date Result ECO Length Ze 1 Ponomariow Ru 2734 Kramnik Vladimir 2790 Sparkassen GM Dortmund 2 2010 1 0 ELL 36 2 Le Quang Liem 2681 Ponomariow Ruslan 2734 Dortmund Sparkassen Dortmund 4 2010 1 0 D36 52 3 Naiditsch Arkadij 2684 Kramnik Vladimir 2790 Dortmund Sparkassen Dortmund 9 2010 140 Bo 34 4 Robson Ra Fedorowicz John P 38th World Open Valley Forg 3 5 Zatonskih Anna 2470 Krush
3. _ Ignore colors Gei Search all Search filter Add to filter Accessed by clicking the Header search E shortcut icon The dialog is also accessed from the Search gt Header menu item This dialog allows you to search the current database for games matching the search criteria the search results are known as the as the search filter You can specify any of the fields in the dialog to search for or leave them blank to indicate match all for that field You can use the Ignore colours checkbox to indicate that the White and Black fields can also apply to Black and White thereby matching both colours As you type a name in the White Black Event or Site field HIARCS Chess Explorer will aid your selection by giving you possible values based on what you type this is a great help in remembering difficult names or events etc Incomplete fields are treated as the first part of a wildcard for example type Ka in the White field will find all players with a name beginning with Ka like Karpov Kasparov etc Here is an example from the TopGames database when typing An in the White field you will see only the possible names match An are offered making it much easier to name players correctly 6 Header Search Anand Viswanathan Andersson Ulf Annakow Babakuli Anastasian Ashot Andreikin Dmitry Andriasian Zaven Antoniewski Rafal kel 10 w o 1 w 1 2 1 2 vw _ Ignore colors Search all Search filter
4. 2010 07 16 Result Gei 10 O 1212 Oo1 O Accessed by clicking the Edit header A shortcut icon The dialog is also accessed from the Game gt Edit_header menu item This dialog is also presented when you save a game where the game header needs to be defined The dialog enables you to change the header fields of the game It is important to set the correct values for a game as it makes it easier to find the game later You can set all the mandatory fields of a PGN game in this dialog it also allows you to edit add new tags in the Extra tags tab Please note you can set a date either by entering it or using the built in calendar by clicking the calendar icon PGN dates are in YYYY MM DD format Save game Save game Site Game Information E j en ote meno E Result O 10 1217 O01 F Use last header This Save game dialog is accessed from the Game gt Save_menu_ item when you save a new game This dialog is also presented when you save a new game using the floppy disk icon in the Game Notation pane lt enables you to set the header fields for a new game It is important to set the correct values for a game as it makes it easier to find the game later You can set all the mandatory fields of a PGN game in this dialog it also allows you to edit add new tags in the Extra tags tab Please note you can set a date either by entering it or using the built in calendar by clicking the
5. Add to filter You can specify an elo range for each player You can even specify the date range for the search down to an exact date range including days The integrated calendar selector is accessible from the calendar Her icon which allows you to easily do this Finally you can specify how the search will be applied Search all The default is to Search all games in the database and create a new search result filter of the the games found The search result will be listed in the game list of the Game Explorer pane Search filter This enables you to search the games in the current filter only It will create a new search result filter out of the the games found The search result will be listed in the game list of the Game Explorer pane Add to filter This enables you to search all games in the database and add the search results to the current filter of games The combined results will be listed in the game list of the Game Explorer pane Search for position search for positon Side to move WW FEN r2gk2r p2n ipbp 20p inp 1 2pP 4 5B2 5N1P PP2PPP 1 R3KB1R w KOkg 3 14 The Search for position dialog is accessed from the Search gt Position menu item and enables you to set a position so that you can find all games in the database which have that position Initially the dialog uses the current position displayed on the main board All the editing abilities of the Set up position dialog are possible here including mov
6. Information Opening statistics White Sicilian Defence Najdorf 54 games 62 0 19 29 6 French Defence Tarrasch variation 40 games 68 8 20 15 5 Sicilian Defence 2 d6 sidelines 34 games 54 4 8 21 5 Caro Kann Defence 33 games 56 1 7 23 3 Sicilian Defence 2 Nf3 early deviations 23 games 50 0 5 18 5 Petroff Defence 3 MNxe5 28 games 55 4 7 17 4 Sicilian Defence Taimanov variation 27 games 63 0 7 20 Ruy Lopez Closed 23 games 65 2 3 14 1 Black Queen s Indian Defence 87 games 51 1 19 51 17 Nimzo Indian Defence 63 games 46 8 11 37 15 Ruy Lopez Closed sidelines 53 games 49 1 6 40 7 Ruy Lopez Closed 34 games 27 9 1 17 16 Petroff Defence 3 Nwe5 28 games 41 1 3 17 8 Ruy Lopez Closed Marshall Gambit 25 games 48 0 3 18 4 Catalan Opening 20 games 42 5 1 15 4 English 1 c4 Nf 19 games 42 1 2 12 5 Update player Here we see the details for English GM Michal Adams It shows the following information in order e Players name in the included databases we use the official FIDE names where available e Number of games played by the player in the named database e The date range when the games were played e The rating of the player over that period Now we come to the player statistics The statistics marked in blue are selectable and clicking them will automatically populate the Game_Explorer game list with the games
7. Anand Viswanat Match PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final Basel SUI New York New York New York New York New York New York New York 1986 77 7 1995 09 12 1995 09 15 1995 09 22 1995 09 26 1995 09 29 1 0 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1995 10 03 1 ASD E34 Al C45 Cao CrS B01 42 E 29 21 22 30 43 41 20 1995 10 06 1 2 1 2 B85 287 35431 games We can see based on this data that Garry Kasparov is most likely to play 1 e4 You will also notice started a new game Game gt New_ menu so can explore variations played in Garry s games You can select moves in the Opening Explorer pane to follow different paths until you find something interesting You can also enter moves and variations and explorer positions as much as you like We will assume Garry will play 1 e4 and so we will follow his most common likely moves in the Opening Explorer Source Filter we then reach the Sicilian Nadjorf line 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Be3 We now find Opening Explorer is showing us a difficult choice there are a number of choices for Black and they all appear to have bad Scores at least against Garry Kasparov Remember the Score is always the percentage that White achieves in these lines Performance Year 2566 2001 2597 2001 2025 1998 2051 2000 Score 83 3 83 3 Move Games Rating 26 0 2691 2675 2677 100 0
8. There are many sections to the Play game dialog here is an explanation of each Player This section allows you to enter the name of the player who will play the game it defaults to your name You can access Rated users statistics by clicking on the button next to your name this will display the Rated user dialog You can choose if you want the game to be a rated game The player s current rating is also displayed here It is 1600 Elo Opponent This section allows you to select your opponent Any engine loaded into HIARCS Chess Explorer can selected however not all engines support set Elo ratings like HIARCS chess engines Also no other chess engine supports the play realism of the HIARCS chess engines You can select the rating of your opponent e Maximum setting allows the engine to play its strongest chess e Match player strength allows you to play an adaptive opponent which matches your estimate chess strength e Custom allows you to set a specific Elo rating for the engine to play at The up and down arrow selector will increase or decrease the value in 25 Elo steps You can of course click on the value and set an exact value from the keyboard lf you want your opponent to also think about its next move while it is your turn to move you can turn this on or off using the Think on player s time checkbox Time control You can optionally choose a time control to play at Here are the options No time control selected the
9. h6 17 4xh6 Yxd6 A 118 di Ya6 19 a3 Yb7 20 We3 f8 21 403 Zo 22 e3 b8 23 d2 298 24 4d3 297 25 d6 0 43 16 14 2d2 0 0 15 xd6 c8 16 4b5 e8 17 e3 2b6 18 8xc5 ed 19 5d1 Yf6 20 8d4 Yxd4 L Can be toggle accessed by clicking the Analysis Explorer E shortcut icon or from the View gt Analysis Explorer menu item The Analysis Explorer pane enables you to analyse positions using chess engines see the analysis from a number of perspectives and use the analysis in the Game Notation pane You can select any chess engine from the engine selector highlighted in above screen shot all engines which have already been added in the Preferences Engines tab will be available in this selector You will have the HIARCS World Chess Software Champion engine available in this selector as it is automatically installed with HIARCS Chess Explorer After you have chosen the engine you want to analyse with you can also set the number of lines to analyse simultaneously Normally HIARCS analyses with lines 1 to find the best line of play from the current position however you may be interested in the top N lines of play if you are you can set the lines field to the number of lines you wish to see simultaneously computed Please note having lines gt 1 makes HIARCS significantly less efficient at finding the best move available e
10. 100 0 Source In order to help choose the best move in this position we seek information from other sources First we select the local opening book to get an idea of the popular GM moves in this position Score Rating Performance Year Play 39 3 2543 2576 2012 509 39 3 2538 2578 2012 25 143 2505 2595 2012 25 DU 3 2525 2582 2011 90 Pb 2510 DFH 2011 64 3 2491 b12 2012 39 30 2518 630 2011 40 0 2484 2394 2012 62 5 2451 2540 2011 Source Eee we FEF Now we can compare that with the wider and deeper Online book GM Move Games Score Rating Performance Year Play ol 6650 30 9 2567 2607 2012 571 26 3308 37 2 2593 2606 2012 28 5 WNg4 1393 14 3 2563 2611 2012 142 Aco 124 60 1 2523 2505 2011 Nbd A 30 91 3 2502 2507 2011 g6 24 750 2593 2798 2011 QUE 15 66 2 2487 2637 2012 057 of 1 2493 2540 2012 ahd 62 5 2451 2540 2011 h 100 00 2620 3320 2008 Source Mii e ae D D D D D D D D D D We can see from this information that 6 e5 is the recommended move from GM practice so we will follow this move in the game notation the Opening Explorer will continue to show us the moves and statistics from Kasparov filter There are two games from the Kasparov filter which follow this 6 e5 line So we now follow the line 6 e5 7 Nb3 Be6 8 f3 Nbd7 9 g4 h6 10 Qd2 which is well established theory until we find the two games played diverge To see these games
11. HIARCS Chess Explorer End User License Agreement EULA THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE READ AND AGREED TO BEFORE INSTALLING OR USING THE SOFTWARE Thank you for selecting HIARCS Chess Explorer software All the software data and accompanying amp I do not accept the agreement In the next dialog you will have the choice to create a desktop icon which will appear on your desktop and make launching HIARCS Chess Explorer easier You will then be given a dialog which simply asks you to click the Install button to install HIARCS Chess Explorer Click this button and installation will begin you will see the installation progress ig Setup HIARCS Chess Explorer Installing Please wait while Setup installs HIARCS Chess Explorer on your computer Extracting files Cod Mark Uniacke My Documents HIARCS Chess Books WHiarcs 14aBook hcs Once the installer is complete you will get the following dialog confirming successful installation and giving you the option to launch HIARCS Chess Explorer is Setup HIARCS Chess Explorer Completing the HIARCS Chess Explorer Setup Wizard Setup has finished installing HIARCS Chess Explorer on your computer The application may be launched by selecting the installed icons Click Finish to exit Setup HIARCS Chess Explorer is now installed on your computer Installation Folders When HIARCS Chess Explorer is installed it creates a number of folders for the Application itself chess
12. engines and data files including databases This section explains where the files are installed Installation folders on PC Windows On PC Windows the HIARCS Chess Explorer installer creates the following folders Application Folders The application and engines are installed in the Program Files HIARCS Chess folder Inside this folder you will find the following folders installed e HIARCS Chess Explorer this folder contains all the files and folders of the Graphical User Interface e Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC this folder contains all the files of the multiprocessor HIARCS 14 WCSC version e HIARCS 14 WCSC this folder contains all the files of the single processor HIARCS 14 WCSC version Please note on Windows 64 bit systems the Program Files x86 folder is used instead of Program Files Data Folders The HIARCS Chess Explorer user files are installed in your documents folder On Windows XP this is in your Your Documents folder on Windows Vista and later it is in your Documents folder In this location you will find the HIARCS Chess folder is installed and contains the following sub folders e Books this folder contains the books HIARCS uses book subscribers can add books issued as part of the Book Subscription to this folder and HIARCS 14 engines will automatically use the latest book e Databases this folder contains the packaged databases which are included with HIARCS Chess Explorer e Documentation this folder contains t
13. from the current tab and paste those game s to another database which is open in another tab of HIARCS Chess Explorer You can select to copy just a single game the games in the current filter or all the games in the current database To choose the database to paste to click the database name in the To list and then select OK The game s will then be copied to the database you selected Edit comment w Edit Comment The Catalan and the world s leading expert on this opening is sitting on the black side of the board But this is not unprecedented The check on b4 has not been a waste of time for Black because the white bishop will need to move from d2 Add diagram This Edit Comment dialog is accessed from the Edit gt Insert gt Comment menu item lt enables you to enter a new comment after any move in the game notation the comment is inserted after the current move shown in the Game notation pane If you wish to enter a comment at the start of the game you can select the Edit gt Insert gt Start comment menu item You can also edit any existing comment by simply clicking on the comment in the Game_Notation pane You can then edit it in this Edit comment dialog While editing a comment the comment will be underlined in the Game Notation pane You can clear an existing comment by using the Clear button To add a diagram to the Game Notation for later printing select the Add
14. it will take somewhat longer to reach the same depth of search The analysis output area is directly under the engine selector The output area can show analysis in four main ways 1 Concise view showing only the best move s found so far along with the evaluation and depth of search 2 History and Statistic view showing the history of analysis of this position with statistics 3 Game Analysis progress showing the engine analysis progress as it analyses a game 4 Endgame tablebase results showing the results of consulting huge endgame databases The Analysis Explorer pane has 4 important shortcut icons next to the engine selector E Engine settings this enables you to configure the engine options be Start stop analysing if idle start analysing if analysing stop between a clean simple view and the history and statistics view View analysis history and statistics toggle the view shown in the Analysis Explorer 9 Analyse game this icon button enables you to analyse the whole game with an engine os Concise view Lines 1 Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC v 1 60 19 14 xd6 c8 15 4a4 Yb6 16 474 Sho 17 4xh6 Exd6 18 8d1 ta6 19 93 Sb7 20 4e3 218 21 43 297 22 e3 b8 23 204 Wyb 24 4xb2 Mxb2 25 0 0 Mhb8 26 d2 2e5 27 5xb2 2xf3 28 gxf3 xb2 29 d6 The concise view gives a very simple uncluttered view of the engine analysis in Analysis Explorer The engine analysis is presented as Evaluation Depth Principle
15. Engine Deep HIARCS 14 WESC K _ Think on player s time Time control Time per game Smin SS Nonstandard starting position O Current Gei Opening French Defence Tarrasch Variation E Color Random White e Black This allows you to select from well over a hundred named openings both to learn different opening systems and get practice in those positions Sicilian Defence Accelerated Dragon Sicilian Defence Kan Variation Sicilian Defence Taimanov Variation Sicilian Defence 2 Nf3 d Sicilian Defence Sozin Variation Sicilian Defence Boleslavsky Variation Sicilian Defence Dragon Sicilian Defence Sicilian Defence felimirovic Please see the Play game section for further details on other elements of this dialog Opening preparation One the advanced features of HIARCS Chess Explorer is its ability to allow players of all strengths to prepare their openings and also prepare for opponents As an example we will briefly take a hypothetical look at how you could prepare an opening to play as Black against ex World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov Find games of opponent We first open the TopGames database which is packaged with HIARCS Chess Explorer In the Game Explorer dialog we can use the Quick search field to find all games played by Garry Kasparov with the White pieces We simply enter Kasparov and press return or click Find and all Kasparovs white games will appear in t
16. This menu item allows you to reset the header search filter all values previously used are cleared The filter will now match all games in the database Reverse filter This menu item allows you to reverse the search filter so only games not matching the original filter are matched This can be used as part of advanced filtering as explained in the Searching and filtering section Display dialogs There are many display dialogs used in HIARCS Chess Explorer This section explains the meaning of each main dialog and how it is reached New database New database Look in 5 C Documents and Setting s HIARCS Chess Databases O O O KC D E BW My Computer Name Size Type Date Modified E Mark Uniacke i PlayedGames pan SEE ogn File 06 07 2012 03 26 03 i AnmotatedGames pgn 1 5 MB pon File 28 04 2012 05 17 32 TopGames pon 24 2 MB pgn File 27 04 2012 19 23 42 Fischer Spassky pgn 33 KB pan File 11 08 2011 01 43 06 Kasparov Karpov pgn 122 KE oon File 11 08 2011 01 23 20 Files of type PGN database pan wi This New database dialog is accessed from the File gt New menu_item lt enables you to create a new PGN database Enter the file name of the database you wish to create and click Save You can also browse to another folder if you wish to create a PGN database in a different folder Open database Open database 5 C Documents and Setting s HIARCS Chess Databases wl O O O 3 Je E pr My Computer Size Type Da
17. are shown in blue e Comments are shown in green as are diagram designations see move 13 dxe5 e Move evaluation and other symbols are shown in red see respectively 14 Bh3 10 Qc8 12 Rac1N etc e The current move is highlighted see 13 dxe5 and the position after the highlighted move is displayed on the Game Board Navigating the game notation There are many way to navigate the game in the game notation Use the mouse left click to go directly to any move or variation the position will then be shown on the Game Board You can navigate to the beginning of the game previous move next move or end of game by using the move navgation icons Di O m i ma O Op The play navigation icon above gives the ability to start replaying the game moves from the current position The pause icon pauses the replay The keyboard can be used to navigate the game if you use the left or right arrow keys they will move backwards or forwards through the current line of play The arrow key navigation will not present annoying variation dialogs or enter sub variations To be offered the move variation choices at each move use the Ctrl right arrow If there is choice of moves at any point in the game notation you will be given a Select move dialog so you can choose the continuation The Ctrl left arrow will jump back to the previous higher variation which is just before the point this variation branch was entered The down arrow jumps forward 5 moves o
18. as explained in the Open PGNs with section Open PGNs with On installation HIARCS Chess Explorer is set as the default application to open PGN database files If HIARCS Chess Explorer is not the default application for the PGN file type you can set it by right clicking on a PGN file in Windows Explorer and selecting properties when you will see the following dialog TopGames pen Properties Te General Summary E E E TopGames pgn Type of file Portable Game Notation Opens with es HIARCS Chess Explore Location C Documents and Settings Mark UniackeWWy Doc Size 24 1 MB 25 349 167 bytes Size on disk 24 1 MB 25 350 144 bytes Created 18 July 2012 18 53 48 Modified 27 April 2012 19 23 42 Accessed 23 July 2012 19 36 56 Attributes You will see the line beginning Opens with if that does not say HIARCS Chess Explorer you can click Change and change the default application to open your PGN databases Accessing help HIARCS Chess Explorer supports many levels of help e tool tip help as you pass the mouse pointer over the icons a short textual description of the icon will be displayed in a tool tip which will pop up and in the status area in the bottom left hand corner of the screen e context sensitive help this gives help appropriate to the window or dialog you are using e a full detailed manual with contents search and hyper linked navigation Help menu HIARCS Chess Ex
19. diagram button The diagram will be added at the cursor position within the text so you have flexibility about diagram placement within the text comment This allows great flexibility over the printed game Player Explorer 3 Player Explorer Database Acs Peter Adams Michael Adianto Utut Adly Ahmed Agdestein Simen Agrest Evgenij Akobian Varuzhan Akopian Vladimir Aleksandrov Aleksej Alekseev Evgeny Almasi Zoltan Alterman Boris Amin Bassem Amonatov Farrukh Anand Viswanathan Anastasian Ashot Andersson Ulf Andreikin Dmitry Andriasian Zaven Annakov Babakuli Antoniewski Rafal Areshchenko Alexander Information K Show player Update list The Player Explorer dialog is accessed from the View gt Player Explorer menu item or the A shortcut icon It can also be accessed by clicking on a players name in the Game Notation header information Player Explorer is a powerful way to view the players in a database their games performances and favourite openings The dialog is composed of e a Players tab which enables you to find players in the database e an Information tab which enables you to see details about the player selected The Show player button will show details about the current selected player in the Information tab The Update list button can be used to update the statistics if you have added modified or deleted any games to this database since the Player Explorer dialog was opene
20. e HIARCS Chess Explorer Graphical User Interface GUI this is the presentation you see and interact with e HIARCS chess engine s this is the electronic chess brain which analyses and plays chess HIARCS Chess Explorer supports engines which comply with the Universal Chess Interface specification The HIARCS chess engines included in the package are UCI compatible Oo Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC available with the Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer product o HIARCS 14 WCSC e Opening books these are collections of positions moves and statistics which help show you the chess openings play chess openings and classify and name openings played These electronic books are used by HIARCS Chess Explorer to present the information within them They cannot be read by other software e Chess databases these are collections of players games and commented games which you can load view modify play through etc etc The following databases are included o TopGames this is a database of games between the world s strongest chess players generally of last 20 years o AnnotatedGames this is a database of games annotated by strong chess players including International Masters and Grandmasters o FischerSpassky this database contains all the games played between these great rival players o KasparovKarpov this database contains all the games played between these great rival players o Tactics WAC300 this database contains 300 tactical puzzles you can
21. fit into three broad categories each covered by a tab view e Board configuration tab allows configuration of the chess board and chess set presentation and engine coach highlights e Engines configuration tab allows configuration of the chess engines used and common data they use e Advanced configuration tab allows configuration of miscellaneous settings When the preferences are configured the settings remain set each time you run the program until you next change them Clicking the Apply button will apply the current settings but keeps the dialog open Clicking the Cancel button will cancel any changes since the last apply and exit the dialog Finally click the OK button to apply the current settings and exit the dialog back to the main display Board Preferences Preferences Chess set Board style Colors pH Highlighted squares eee Frame Eee Engine move EE Book move LO Good move AAA Bad move Show coordinates Draw frame between squares Guess move on left dick _ Highlight last engine move The Board tab of the Preferences dialog enables you to configure the board chess set and highlighting aspects of HIARCS Chess Explorer You can set the chess set you like from the Alpha Leizig Merida and USCF chess sets Each chess set can be presented as Plain with an Outline or with an Outline and Shadow The actual chess board can be set to multiple different textures including
22. game in the current database making a new game entry for it in the database Please note this option should be used with caution since creating another instance of the same game in the same database will reduce the value of the database statistics used in the Opening Explorer It is also not good practice to have multiple copies of the same game in a database if you want the duplicate game for a special purpose consider whether you should copy the game into a different database for that purpose Delete This menu item will delete the current game from the database This operation cannot be undone so please use with caution You will be asked to confirm the deletion Question y E Deleted game can t be restored SA Are you sure you want to delete t Play menu The Play menu allows you to play games against the computer and perform operations on a game in progress or view played games and ratings Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations are also defined on the menu you can use the keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function directly from the keyboard You can also see shortcut icons for some menu items on the menu as a guide that there is a shortcut toolbar icon for the option Ss Mew game Ctrl 6 r Takeback Backspace ci Switch sides Offer draw Resign TT ause Ctrl 5pace ove now Ctrl Return pa 10 is Ica a Cu CO e View played games View rated users New game This menu
23. game notation All symbols this option will remove all move and evaluation symbols from the game notation Everything except main line this option will remove all comments variations and symbols from the game leaving just the main line of the game Promote variation This menu item allows you to promote the current variation shown in the game notation up one level closer to the mainline If the variation was only one level down from the main line then the variation would become the new main line with the previous mainline becoming a sub variation Preferences This menu item allows you to open the Preferences dialog where you can configure HIARCS Chess Explorer View menu The View menu allows you to view various Explorer panes in the program Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations are also defined on the menu you can use the keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function directly from the keyboard You can also see shortcut icons for some menu items on the menu as a guide that there is a shortcut toolbar icon for the option Analysis Explorer Ciel AA Lei Opening Explorer Ctrl T Game Explorer Ctrl ShiftH5 A Player Explorer Ctrl Sshitt F 5 Flip board Ctrl 8 Analysis Explorer This menu item allows you to open the Analysis Explorer pane in the main window The Analysis Explorer is used to analyse positions and games Opening Explorer This menu item allows you to open the Opening Explorer pane in the ma
24. is equal 14 d6 xd6 15 xa8 c8 16 2c3 c 17 Had 17 2xc6 xc6 18 xd3 dei was good for Black in Llanes Sargissian Spain 2006 17 idb4 18 2xc6 Yxc6 19 xc6 xc6 20 4d2 looks good for White 11 403 bd 12 2 aciN Ponomariov tries something new 12 2f4 h5 13 2e3 hf 14 Zacl xe5 15 dxe5 o 16 2 f4 2xc4 17 43 h6 18 e400 was played in Sambuev Smirnov Krasnoyarsk 2003 and is finely balanced 12 4xe5 diagram 13 4d7 enabling the capture of a pawn on d5 if Black plays 14 2xe5 However the move chosen leads to passivity 14 cxd5 cxd5 a The Game Notation pane displays the game header information moves comments variations and symbols for the current game Game Header Information At the top of the game notation we have White and Black player names and Elo ratings if available and the game result Please note the players names in blue are hyper linked so you can simply click the player to open the Player Explorer to view the games performances and favourite openings of the player in the Information tab The event and site where the game was played and the round and date on which the game was played The ECO code and opening name Game Notation Below the game header information the actual game is displayed The game notation can have the following information e The main line of the game e g the moves played in the game is shown in bold text e Move variations these can be nested
25. is toggled using the Book icon e E Analysis Explorer provides access to engine analysis with statistics history and game analysis The Analysis Explorer pane is optional and its presence is toggled using the Computer icon A in KI Play game mode provides the ability to play chess against the computer The height and width of the Game Notation Opening Explorer and Analysis Explorer panes can be adjusted The height of the Game Explorer pane can also be adjusted The chess board will automatically adjust size to fit Game Board The Game board displays the current chess position of the game in the Game Notation window The current side to play is shown to the right of the board with a white square for white to play and a black square for black to play in our example white is to play The algebraic coordinates around the chess board are optional other attributes of the board including the board textures and piece sets can also be set in the Preferences gt Board tab Move entry To move a piece simply move the mouse pointer over the square of the piece you wish move click the left mouse button down to select the piece You can then hold the mouse button down and drag the piece to the destination square and let go to make the move If you hold down the Shift key while entering a move it will be added as the new main line with the previous main line becoming a variation If you hold down the Ctrl key while entering a move i
26. it When you click the left mouse button on a piece to move it Guess move will colour code the destination square highlight to indicate move quality Here are the default colours ARA Book move E Good move Eee Bad move These colours are used with dark light intensity to show move quality These colours are configurable in the Preferences gt Board tab Resizing The chess board will automatically resize in response to the size of the overall HIARCS Chess Explorer window and any panes and their widths used within it The Game board and pieces can support up to a massive 2 400 x 2 400 pixel resolution without losing any quality Game Notation Ponomariov Ruslan 2734 Kramnik Vladimir 2790 1 0 Sparkassen GM Dortmund GER 2 2010 07 16 Eil Bogo Indian Defence Be7 retreat 1 44 f6 2 c4 e6 3 93 2b4 4 2d2 e7 5 292 d5 6 4f3 The Catalan and the world s leading expert on this opening is sitting on the black side of the board But this is not unprecedented The check on b4 has not been a waste of time for Black because the white bishop wil need to move from d2 6 0 0 7 0 0 c6 8 c2 b6 9 2d1 9 214 is played more often 9 2a6 9 2b7 is perhaps safer but also not as combative 10 2e5 c8 10 2fd7 11 cxd5 cxd5 12 e4 xe5 13 exd5 13 dxe5 is powerfully answered by 13 d4 13 amp d3 13 2e2 seems to be an improvement 14 dxe5 xd1 15 4xd1 exd5 Ip zc c 17 4xd5 ixeS 18 ixe Uxe 19 2xa8 xa8
27. item allows you to start a new game to play against the computer it opens the Play new game dialog so you can set the conditions for the game Takeback This menu item allows you to takeback a move during the game It takes back both the computers response and your last move Switch sides This menu item allows you to change sides with the computer Please note for rated games if you want an accurate chess rating we suggest you do not use this option Offer draw This menu item allows you to offer a draw to the computer The computer will consider your draw offer and either agree to the draw or refuse it and choose to play on Resign This menu item allows you to resign the game Your opponent will be awarded the win Pause This menu item allows you to pause the current game the clocks will be paused You can resume the game by selecting this menu item in paused game condition and the clocks will restart Very useful if you need a break during the game Move now This menu item forces the computer to stop thinking and make its move It only has an effect if the computer is thinking Hint This menu item requests a hint move from the computer The hint move with be animated on the board so you can see what move the computer is suggesting Coach This menu item allows you to toggle the coach on or off When on the coach will warn you if it thinks your move might be a serious mistake and the coach can even alert you to the possibility tha
28. line These data values are explained below 1 Evaluation in pawns A positive value is in favour of White and shown in blue a negative value is in favour of Black and shown in red For example 1 00 would indicate White is the equivalent of 1 pawn ahead 2 Depth of search This is the depth in half moves or plies that the engine has searched to The deeper an engine searches the better its analysis result usually is 3 Principle line This is the expected line of play the engine expects to occur with best play You can insert the evaluation depth and best line of play into the Game Notation by simply clicking the blue evaluation and depth value Here is an example where the above analysis has been added to the Game Notation pane 14 xd6 1 60 19 14 c8 15 4a4 4b6 16 4f4 h6 17 4xh6 odp 18 d1 Gap 19 a3 Yb7 20 4e3 18 21 4c3 27 22 e3 bb 23 204 xb 24 4xb2 Axb2 25 0 0 hb8 26 2d2 eh 27 8xb2 xf3 28 gxf3 xb 29 d6 You can see the expected line of play has been added to the Game Notation with the evaluation and depth of search The evaluation and depth of search is added after the first move of the line so it is clear at which point in the line the evaluation was computed With two lines of analysis the concise view looks like this Lines E Deeptiancsiawesc CU WO 1 63 16 14 2xd6 c8 15 4a4 Yb6 16 474 Sho 17 4xh6 Yxd6 18 d1 Ya6 19 43 4b7 20 4e3 f8 21 45 Sg7 22 e3 b8 23 d2 2198 24 4d3 297 25 d6 0
29. matching the criteria for example clicking on the 155 games in the White line will show the 155 white wins by Michael Adams in the game list This innovative hyper linked connectivity between Players and Games is a very powerful and convenient mechanism to rapidly access games Let us look the remaining information e Total games played split into wins draws and losses e White games and their statistics these are games played by Michal Adams as White you will see the performance for Michael Adams playing white is also given at 59 6 Black games and performance statistics Opening statistics show the 8 most popular openings the player played with the White and Black pieces Under the player s opening statistics section you can again click any statistic marked in blue to populate the Game Explorer game list with the games matching the criteria for example clicking on the 54 games next to Sicilian Defence Najdorf will show those games involving Michael Adams where the Sicilian Nadjorf opening was played This innovative hyper linked connectivity between Players Openings and Games is a very powerful and convenient mechanism to rapidly access games in particular openings The opening statistics are particularly useful if you are interested in a particular opening or a particular player and the openings they play This is very useful for preparation When you view the Information tab for the database you get an overvew of the games played
30. of accesses to the local endgame tablebases by the engine in its search e The history of analysis given by the engine is given in reverse order so the latest line is always top of the list At each depth searched the engine analysis is given and also if it changed its mind about which move was best The most recent evaluation is always at the top of the list of analysis lines Analysis lines from the engine are given in this order left to right 1 Time the time at which the engine output the analysis We observe FIDE time format of hours mins secs hours are omitted where appropriate 2 Evaluation in pawns A positive value is in favour of White and shown in blue a negative value is in favour of Black and shown in red For example 1 00 would indicate White is the equivalent of 1 pawn ahead 3 Depth of search This is the depth in half moves or plies that the engine has searched to The deeper an engine searches the better its analysis result usually is 4 Principle line This is the expected line of play the engine expects to occur with best play You can insert the evaluation depth and best line of play into the Game Notation by simply clicking the evaluation and depth value in blue or red Here is an example 14 xd6 1 60 19 14 c8 15 4a4 4b6 16 4f4 h6 17 4xh6 odp 18 d1 Gap 19 a3 Yb 20 4e3 Of8 21 4c3 g7 22 e3 b8 23 204 xb 24 4xb2 Axb2 25 0 0 hb8 26 d2 eh 27 8xb2 xf3 28 gxf3 xb 29 d6 You can also copy
31. opening books with the latest opening theory and novelties Depending on the product type you can have access to a GM or GM opening book with the latest moves and statistics presented Book subscribers get access to additional online opening book content Database source Move Games Score Rating Performance Year 6 Be3 786 32 1 2696 2744 2012 6 Be2 304 56 F 2689 2737 2012 6 Bg5 212 51 2 2680 2694 2012 6 3 159 53 1 2707 2724 2011 6 Bc4 68 49 3 2684 2690 2011 Dh 49 53 1 2693 2714 2012 6 93 47 98 5 2679 2742 2011 6 a4 42 56 05 2685 2719 2011 Se 41 31 2 2648 2682 2012 6 Rgl Fi 42 9 2691 2670 2002 6 Bd3 Fi 42 9 2677 2626 2009 6 0f3 3 83 3 2656 2895 2012 Automatically set fiter Source Database Y When using the Source Database in Opening Explorer you are presented with the moves and statistics from the database for the current position whatever that s One of of the powerful features of Opening Explorer is the ability to apply a real time game filter based on the current position By clicking the Show games button you can immediately set the filter and games listed in the Game Explorer pane to only show the games which have this position in them Therefore simply by clicking the Show games button you will then have a game list of all the games that contributed to the moves and statistics shown To make the game filter be applied automatically each time you go to a new position in the Game Notation select the Aut
32. opponent will move instantly nice for casual play Time per game you can set the time which each side has to complete all their moves e Time per game with increment the same as Time per game except in addition you can set an increment in time each player gets for each move they make e Time per given moves this allows you to set the number of moves each side must complete in a given amount of time In addition to these time control settings you can also set extra time on the players clock at the start of the game Non standard starting position This is a powerful option which allows you to set a non standard starting position which is very useful for practice and learning Gi Play game Player Name Mark Uniacke Rated game ranking 1600 Opponent Engine Deep HIARCS 14 WESC Rating Maximum Match player strength Custom _ Think on player s time Time control Time per given moves wl 40 moves in Smin Extra for human player 0 min O Current Opening Benko s Opening Color Random White Black You can select either the current position from the database tab when you started Play gt New_game or you can select from a huge range of chess openings that you may wish to practice against Please see the Learning to play openings section for details Colour This allows you to set the colour you wish to play select White or Black or allow a random col
33. see the solution in the game header extra tags dialog Please note you can add other UCI chess engines including third party UCI chess engines into HIARCS Chess Explorer You can also use HIARCS chess engines in other chess GUls which support UCI engines We advise activation of our engines in HIARCS Chess Explorer as we have found many other chess GUls are not 100 compatible with the UCI specification for activating registering engines Installation on PC Windows When you purchase HIARCS Chess Explorer you will be sent an email with a download link where you can download the HIARCS Chess Explorer installer To download the HIARCS Chess Explorer Installer please click on the link you were sent immediately after purchase On Windows XP you will then see a dialog like this File Download Security Warning Do you want to run or save this file Name setupHIARCSChessExplorer exe Type Application 62 8MB From www hiares com J While files from the Intemet can be useful this file type can D potentially ham your computer f you do not trust the source do not A run or save this software What s the risk If you select Run the HIARCS Chess Explorer Installer will be downloaded and then executed Alternatively you can save it locally to your computer and run it later If you do save the installer instead of running it then please make a note of where you saved it so you can run it later Simply double click the saved setupH
34. the Game Notation pane in various ways from a submenu with these options Beginning of the game this option goes to the beginning of the game in the game notation Previous 5 moves this option goes back 5 moves in the game notation Previous move this option goes back to the previous move in the game notation Next move this option goes to the next move in the game notation Next 5 moves this option goes forward 5 moves in the game notation End of the game this option goes to the end of the game in the game notation Enter variation this option brings up a Select_move dialog if the there is at least one variation on the next move e Exit variation this option exits the current variation going back to the move before the variation started Select First Ctrl Shift Up CH Next Ctrl Down Q Previous Ctrl Up Last Ctrl Shift Down Random Ctrl 2 Choose This Game Select submenu allows you to navigate games in the database in various ways from a nested menu with these options First this option loads the first game in the database in the game notation Next this option loads the next game in the database from the current game Previous this option loads the prevous game in the database from the current game Last this option loads the last game in the database Random this option loads a random game in the database Choose this option allows you to select a game number to load from the database Please note if the
35. the best line or all the history of analysis to the clipboard by right clicking on the analysis pane you get this pop up menu Copy best line Copy all lines Any analysis lines copied are copied with piece letters When all analysis lines are copied the analysis is detailed in time order with the latest line at the bottom Analyse game Average time per move ps Annotating engine Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC F Remove previous analysis Color Ce Both White Black Accessed by clicking the analyse game d shortcut icon in the Analysis Explorer pane The dialog is a a also accessed from the Game gt Analyse Game menu item The Analyse game dialog enables you to set up the current selected engine to analyse a game You can set the following information to control how the game is analysed and annotated e Average time per move this is a guideline time the engine uses per move over the course of the game the engine tries to average this time per move However the engine has the freedom to spend more time on difficult moves and less time on easy moves e Analysis format you can select Score only or Score and engine name Both will insert the evaluation and depth of search but the engine name is only added to the Game Notation if the engine name format is selected e Annotating engine you can adjust the annotating engine name to a shorter form which you prefer e Remove previous analysis if this is
36. the engine list by clicking on it Then click on the Remove button and the engine will be removed from the engine list Once the engine is removed it will no longer be available for selection in Analysis Explorer or in Play game mode Add an engine Select engine executable Look in ES HIARCS 13 2 UCI si fe ES femme 9 Places Files of type Engine files exe S Cancel My Network In the example above we are adding a Hiarcs 13 2MP engine You browse to the folder containing the chosen engine and click on the engine executable and it will be added as an engine to the Engine list of the Preferences gt Engine tab Once added you can later select the engine in the Analysis Explorer pane or Play game engine selector Some engines may require prior registration before use or registration on first use Please take note of the instructions with each chess engine Please note the HIARCS 14 World Chess Software Champion engine is automatically added by HIARCS Chess Explorer when it starts for the first time In addition your HIARCS Chess Explorer license will automatically activate the HIARCS chess engines applicable to your license Configure engine Gi Configure Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC Engine Deep HIARCS 14 WESC Author Mark John Uniacke Mame AutoSave PGN false Book Learning true Book Mode Surprise Busy Threads CPU Usage 1 E 3 4 E 6 7 a wo The Configure dialog list
37. the move was played in practice in the source games e Play an assessment of the playability of the move This only appears on book sources and is context related so for GM books the playability is specific to GMs whereas in the highly acclaimed HIARCS Tournament book a more narrow assessment of the playability of the absolute best moves is made Each of the columns is sortable in both ascending and descending order Sources Database Filter Local opening book Online BEE GM Online Opening Explorer can use multiple data sources to present its infromation The following sources are available to consult about the current position e Database the whole database is presented as a tree of moves available together with the statistics from the database itself This source has the powerful automatic filter option see the Database source section for details e Filter the current database filter is presented as a tree of moves with statistics from those filtered games only This source is useful to examine player or opponent opening repertoires or specific Openings or any other filter you can create see the Filter source section for details e Local opening book the local opening book included is built on Grandmaster games and you can see the moves and statistics for those moves played in Grandmaster games Only established moves are shown e Online books the HIARCS Chess Server provides very strong
38. to upgrade to the Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer version you will be sent a new license key and you can update the product to the Deep functionality by entering the license as follows 1 Open the About HIARCS Chess Explorer dialog by choosing the Help gt About_HIARCS Chess Explorer menu item About HIARCS Chess Explorer SAI HIARCS Chess Explorer Copyright CH 2011 2012 Michal Rudolf Mark Uniacke Applied Computer Concepts Ltd All rights reserved Chess piece set images by Eric de Mund and Bruno Rizzuti based on fonts by Eric Bentzen and Armando Marroquin Version 1 0 Licensed to Mark Uniacke Update license 2 Click on the Update license button to update your license Registration Please provide user name and license code for HIARCS Chess Explorer 3 You will then be able to enter your new license details to complete the update Concepts Chess game databases Collections of chess games are stored in files called PGN databases PGN stands for Portable Game Notation it is a standard way to store chess games independent of the hardware and software program application which produced it HIARCS Chess Explorer reads and writes chess databases in PGN format It does not support any non standard format of database Chess Explorer paradigm In the context of a chess game HIARCS Chess Explorer uses a different approach to most other chess software Most chess software focuses just on the current game and the database is a
39. you are in effect demoting any variation it replaces Please see this example A main line and variation Promoting the 6 e5 variation has this effect 6 e5 line is promoted 6 e6 line is demoted e Remove variation this will delete the current variation for example choosing remove variation on the 6 e5 variation will remove it e Remove previous moves this will remove all the previous moves for example choosing remove variation on the move 2 d6 will remove the previous moves e Remove next moves this will remove the following moves variations choosing remove next on the move 7 f3 will remove the move following it Comments Add comment Add move symbol Add evaluation symbol Add other symbol Promote variation Remove variation Remove previous Moves Remove next moves To add a comment select the Add comment menu item from the move context menu You can edit or remove a comment by clicking on the comment Either of these approaches will bring up the Edit comment dialog where you can add edit and remove comments and diagrams from the Game Notation Move symbols Add comment l 3 Add move symbol S Add evaluation symbol 8 27 Add other symbol ia I Remove previous moves d Remove next moves Choose the Add symbol menu item on the move context pop up menu in order to select a move symbol Possible move symbols and their description e a good move usually used for moves that are sur
40. 2802 McShane Luke J 2671 London Chess Clas London 1 2011 12 03 12 12 D15 42 313 Aronian Lev 2800 Anand Viswanathan 2681 20th Amber Rapid Monaco 8 2011 03 20 1 0 D0 59 643 Kramnik Wla 2800 Nepomniachtchi lan 6th Tal Memorial Moscow 1 3 2011 11 16 0 1 A37 53 162 Aronian Lev 2800 Kramnik Vladimir Tal Memorial Moscow 1 2010 11 05 1 0 D38 41 w 768 768 games One of the key features of the Game Explorer pane is the Quick_search field which enables powerful quick searches on the games to be performed Quick search The Quick search field in the Game Explorer pane allows you to create single and range searches from the keyboard and combine searches to perform powerful filtering of games The Quick search filter is applied to all the games in the database Single searches e Kasparov find all games by Kasparov e Kasparov _ find all white games by Kasparov e Kasparov find all black games by Kasparov e 2012 06 find all games from last June e 2011 find all games from 2011 e 1 0 find all games won by white note use 1 2 or 1 2 1 2 for draw e B17 find all games with ECO B17 e Site London find all games played in London general form is Tag Value e gt 2400 find all games with average Elo above 2400 Range searches e B10 B17 find all Caro Kann games e 2001 2011 find all games from XX century Combining searches e Kasparov 0 1 find all games lost by Kasparov with white e Kasparov D80 D99 find all Kasparo
41. 3 1995 10 06 1 0 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1f2 1f2 ASD E34 Al C45 can C78 BOL B35 287 35431 games Using Opening Explorer We can now open the Opening Explorer pane Y and set the Source to be the current Filter Opening Explorer will now display all the moves played in Kasparovs games in the current position together with the statistics for those moves With the source set to the Filter Opening Explorer will only show moves and statistics from the games within the current Filter The current filter and games listed in the Game Explorer pane can be redefined to list only games which contain the current position simply by clicking the Show games button at any time Top Games HIARCS Chess Explorer E led 20000090 YU File Edit View Game Play Search Help bh a Move Games Score Rating Performance Year 169 70 1 20 26 2056 2011 ay 73 0 2016 2078 2011 15 46 46 2618 2710 2001 15 D o 2611 2012 2011 1 100 05 2612 3104 1999 Source Filter w Quick search Kasparov Event Site Round Date Result ECO Length Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Miles Anthony J Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat
42. 43 16 14 2d2 O O 15 xd6 c8 16 4b5 Ze8 17 3 Ab6 18 xc5 gt fxd5 19 d1 Wf6 20 84 Yxd4 You can also copy the best line or all the lines of analysis to the clipboard by right clicking on the analysis pane you get this pop up menu Copy best line Copy all lines Any analysis lines copied are copied with piece letters History and Statistic view Lines 1 IE AE Analysing 26 Nxh6 at depth 18 15 4M nodes analysed in 0 29 517 4K per ver 29 1 21 17 26 2xh6 c3 27 afo cxb2 28 g4 i igo 29 4xg6 Wxg6 30 Axg6 E 1 exd6 Hcl 32 6f7 fh 33 8e6 08 34 495 2c6 35 24 Ac 36 Af1 e 0 80 16 26 xh6 c3 27 6f5 cxb2 28 494 Ef0 29 oxg7 op 30 4xg6 0 07 0 56 15 26 xh6 c3 27 215 cxb 28 494 Ef6 29 2xg7 g6 30 4xgb Yxg6 31 8xg6 xg7 32 4xd6 0 04 0 82 14 26 2xh6 c3 27 095 cxb2 28 404 Yd 29 2h2 208 30 amp h6 03 0 58 13 26 oxh6 c3 27 9f5 cxb2 28 494 g6 29 2h2 d7 30 amp h4 01 0 64 12 26 2xh6 c3 27 f5 cxb2 28 494 Yd7 29 O 01 0 86 11 26 oxh6 c3 27 015 00 1 13 10 26 2xh6 c3 27 2h2 Exh6 28 oxc3 YfZ 29 4d4 a5 30 24xd5 di The History and Statistic view of engine analysis provides the following information in Analysis Explorer e Current status of the engine this shows what move it is analysing the depth of analysis number of nodes positions it has analysed so far and the time it has taken Finally the average number of positions it has analysed per second is given lt will also show the number
43. 51 moves Rb Black wins in 51 moves nRa Black wins in 51 moves Hd Black wins in 52 moves co KC Black wins in 53 moves io Kc Black wins in 53 moves Kode Draw woke Draw 2 82 Draw CO Draw Rez Draw wRtl Draw wo Rh White wins in 19 moves co Recs White wins in 9 moves You can see the move choices and the outcomes of each move available in the current position About HIARCS Chess Explorer About HIARCS Chess Explorer HIARCS Chess Explorer Copyright CH 2011 2012 Michal Rudolf Mark Uniacke Applied Computer Concepts Ltd All rights reserved Chess piece set images by Eric de Mund and Bruno Rizzuti based on fonts by Eric Bentzen and Armando Marroquin Version 1 0 Licensed to Mark Uniacke Update license This dialog is accessed from the Help gt About HIARCS Chess Explorer menu item Support For support you should first read the appropriate section of this manual and the context sensitive help available within HIARCS Chess Explorer If something is not working please consult the HIARCS Chess Explorer FAQ page for the product In the event you are unable to resolve the issue you can email the HIARCS team You may also wish to consult the HIARCS chess forum Any updates issued for HIARCS Chess Explorer will be available from www hiarcs com Information about any updates will be emailed to you and can be reached by using the Help gt Check for updates menu option
44. 60 49 77 2504 2517 2012 2 037 12 Ja AP 2434 2346 2004 2 Nez 3 68 5 2467 2619 2008 2 Bb5 5 60 05 2470 2570 2007 2 0h5 5 40 05 2655 2441 2005 S CK 4 87 5 536 756 2009 3 66 7 2455 2598 1998 2054 Source Local opening book s The local opening book which is included with HIARCS Chess Explorer is built on Grandmaster over the board games You can view the local book in Opening Explorer which enables you to see the moves and statistics for the moves played in Grandmaster games Only established moves are shown Online sources There are various online sources available within the Opening Explorer from the HIARCS Chess Server These online sources provide chess moves and statistics depending on the product type and book subscription you have chosen e GM this is a statistical opening book of chess moves played by Grandmaster over the board games This online book is available to all customers for at least a year after purchase e GM this is a statistical opening book of chess moves played by International Masters and Grandmaster in over the board and correspondence games This online book is available to Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer customer for at least a year after purchase An example of the Online GM book is given in the screen shot below e Tournament this is a statistical opening book of chess moves hand tuned from the very best games played lt has contribution from IMs and GMs and the very strongest chess p
45. AN el 85 laien eut 86 Advanced Preferences ee 87 A A EE 89 TOMO UC WO EEA ee a ape a oe ate o ce ate oe io ten ente ae 89 Tablebase results tte bo e rte do 90 ADOULIRIAR CS CHESS EXI n 90 Ile ee Lu 92 Welcome to HIARCS Chess Explorer Welcome to HIARCS Chess Explorer an intuitive new chess database analysis and playing program for chess players from beginners to Grandmasters HIARCS Chess Explorer is an exciting new chess program for PC and Mac chess players which can run on both PC Windows and Apple Macintosh OS X computers with native look and feel It offers an innovative and intuitive graphical user interface together with the current World Chess Software Champion HIARCS chess engine This unique combination is refreshingly easy to use and includes many innovative new features for chess preparation analysis and training for players of all abilities from beginner to Grandmaster It has specialised features to help weaker chess players improve their chess including special handicapped opponents a chess coach which can demonstrate mistakes show improvements and help you improve your chess while maintaining a chess rating for you so you can follow your progress There are a great many other excellent features in HIARCS Chess Explorer and we have written this manual so you can get the most out of our software Credits amp acknowledgements HIARCS Chess Explorer is designed and developed by Michal Rudolf and Mark Uniacke HIARCS c
46. Gambit Declined Semi Slav D32 D34 Queen s Gambit Declined Tarrasch Defence D35 D42 Queen s Gambit Declined D43 D49 Queen s Gambit Declined Semi Slav main line D50 D69 Queen s Gambit Declined Classical D70 D99 Grunfeld Defence e E00 E99 Indian defences O O O EOO Indian Defences E01 E09 Catalan Opening E10 Blumenfeld Gambit Or OTO E11 Bogo Indian Defence E12 E19 Queen s Indian Defence E20 E59 Nimzo Indian Defence E60 E99 King s Indian Defence Getting started The following subsections explain how to perform many of the common operations typical customers want to use Detailed explanations about the user interface can be found in the User Interface section Launch HIARCS Chess Explorer Once HIARCS Chess Explorer is installed you will have three possible ways of starting it 1 Use the desktop launch icon if you chose to install it clicking the icon will launch the application 2 On the Start menu you will find the HIARCS Chess gt HIARCS Chess Explorer menu item which will launch the application 3 If you have any PGN database files HIARCS Chess Explorer is set on installation as the default application to open these files Therefore you can double click PGN files to launch HIARCS Chess Explorer with that PGN database loaded Please note some applications may change the default application to open your PGN database files If HIARCS Chess Explorer is not the default application for the PGN file type you can set it
47. HIARCS Chess Explorer Table of contents Welcome to HIARCS Chess Explorer remiracion AROE 5 Credits amp acknowledgements e 5 Stone QUISO soci E 6 NENGGO HS MS ms 6 Installation on PC Windows Aa 6 Jr E ele A e e EE 9 ACIYA UOI ME 10 paang YoUr CONSO sonic peer piero iciena 11 KEE 12 e S e 13 AVA GSS SANG FF NOUS acres en o N 13 o A ee eee 14 ECGOOPENING NAMING A 14 o ee E E E 17 Launch HIARGCS Chess E ele EE 17 Open P INS W e PE OU E EE O EN 17 ACCESSINO MOI coroneles eee ee eee ee oiga 18 SATA AS Tor games eaten lei bin eae eee 18 MAKRO MOVES E 18 Playing games against the Comper ee 19 View previous games played against computer cccononococcccccccnnnncononncononoconancananncnnnonononnns 19 ere ue ER EE 6 EE 19 Managing MY e Ir 19 Entering and annotating games 0ooooooccccnnnccnnncooooncnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnnonnnnnnnncnnnns 20 SS A yA E 20 Learning to play OPENINGS sesasine erns OaE AE EERE 20 Openin preparalo aaa ca 21 PAGNO O IOS ss ies 21 FF MIG effet VT EE 21 Configura Me DFO OFAN EE 2 PROG a CW CMCSS e MEN 2 Copy ana Ee E ue le TE 28 Merge JAME cestas eones 28 Copy filter and database e El EE 28 Seite ebe 28 Seta a anque erro ee 29 BT MCT ea O erudita 30 PAV WAVY NOW eter tsesae E E E 30 AMS BOGI cartones 31 Game ee en EE 33 Move context INS NU EE 34 Comen ariadna dolencia rosana aer eaieovodidanies 35 MOVE SVT OIG seen E E E E oso cietn 35 BETA LON Eu ONS someon
48. HIARCS Chess Explorer Seles EEE es E ee 2200 0 76ee e00 8 Glas Top aames E E Kasparov Garry 2325 Ivanchuk Vassily 2740 1 0 Chess Classic Giants m 3rd 4th Frankfurt GER i 1998 06 19 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Byrne English Attack 1 e4 c5 2 573 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 2xd4 fo D C a6 6 2e3 ed 7 2b3 2e6 8 73 bd 9 94 h6 10 d2 b5 11 0 0 0 b6 12 2 fd7 13 2b1 g6 14 h4 h5 15 2d5 2xd5 16 exd5 cf 17 4 c4 18 gxh5 xh5 19 2e2 f5 20 h5 gxh5 21 2c1 f6 22 2d3 e4 23 0e2 e 24 2xc4 bxc4 25 xc4 Od 26 2 hel Zei 27 291 b5 Ap OC Exd5 29 295 xg5 30 fxg5 d7 31 0h8 2f8 32 4xh5 296 33 094 e5 34 6104 d5 35 2e3 2b8 36 b3 2a3 3 2f1 a5 38 h3 a4 39 2f5 d6 40 h7 2b 41 2f1 axb3 A ach Je AS WIRD Ze AA Uk unui Move Games Score Rating Performance Year 13 g6 1 100 0 2740 2025 1998 Elo Black Elo Event Site Round Date Result ECO Length Kasparov Garry 2825 Huzman Alexander 2610 ISR vs Kasparo Tel Aviv ISR 2 4 1998 05 21 1 0 B90 41 Kasparov Garry 2825 Ivanchuk Vassily 2740 Chess Classic Gi Frankfurt GER 1 1998 06 19 1 0 B50 0D 2 35431 games Finally we reach the position after 11 0 O O Nb6 12 Qf2 Nfd7 13 Kb1 where the local opening book does not even consider the move 13 g6 played in the game and offers two alternative moves So we should check this out as the local opening book contains established GM theory so we can conclude that 13 g6 has only be
49. IARCS Chess Explorer This menu item shows information about the product The About HIARCS Chess Explorer dialog also allows you to update your license Check for updates This menu item will launch a browser to contact www hiarcs com to see if any update is available for your version of HIARCS Chess Explorer Recent game pop up menu Accessed by clicking the recent game shortcut icon HIARCS Chess Explorer keeps a record of recently visited games in each database so it is easy to revisit games previously viewed in the database by using the recent game icon Click the icon and you will be given a menu of recent games with game number in database player names and result here is an example 384 Adams Michael Dreev Aleksey 1 0 166 Adams Michael Lautier Joel 1 0 11 Karpov Anatoly Beliavsky Alexander G 1 0 5 Lautier Joel Short Nigel D 1 2 1 2 53 Georgiev Kiril Hracek Zbynek 1 2 1 2 1 Beliavsky Alexander G Hodgson Julian M 1 2 1 2 You can then select the game you wish to load Filter pop up menu In the bottom right hand corner of the main window the number of filter and database games is given for example 287 34191 games This shows you that the Game Explorer pane is showing 287 out of 34191 games The current filter contains those 287 games You can right click on the filter database games number to pop up the Filter menu Reset filter Clap Reverse filter Ctrl Shift A Reset filter
50. IARCSChessExplorer file to start the installer On Vista Windows 7 after downloading the installer the dialog will look like this Please note the verified publisher is Applied Computer Concepts Ltd do not trust the download if it is not signed by Applied Computer Concepts Ltd Open File Security Warning kd Do you want to run this file FE Mame sers Lorraine Downloads setupHIARCSChessExplorer exe Publisher Applied Computer Concepts Ltd Type Application From CausersiLorrainel Downloads setupHIARCSChessExplore W Always ask before opening this file While files from the Internet can be useful this file type can potentially harm your computer Only run software from publishers you trust Whats the risk Once you run the installer you will see this dialog i Setup HIARCS Chess Explorer Welcome to the HIARCS Chess Explorer Setup Wizard This will install HIARCS Chess Explorer 1 0 on your computer Itis recommended that you close all other applications before continuing Click Next to continue or Cancel to exit Setup Mext gt Before you can install HIARCS Chess Explorer you will need to accept the terms of the End User License Agreement i Setup HIARCS Chess Explorer License Agreement Please read the following important information before continuing Please read the following License Agreement You must accept the terms of this agreement before continuing with the installation
51. Irina 2476 chUSAw StLouis USA 3 2010 1 2 1 2 A61 18 K 768 768 games Can be toggle accessed by clicking the Game Explorer J shortcut icon or from the View gt Game Explorer menu item The Game Explorer shows the list of games in the database and provides functions to explore the database for games The games are listed under columns describing Game number in database games are numbered from 1 as they are found in the PGN database White player name and Elo Black player name and Elo Event where game took place Site where game took place Round of event game took place in Date of game in the format YYYY MM DD ECO code of opening played in game this is the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code for openings Length of game in moves Any of these column fields can be sorted By default the list is sorted in the order the games are in the PGN database By clicking on the column header of any field you can sort the list by that column in ascending or descending order In the example below have sorted the White Elo field into descending order by simply clicking on the White Elo column header This powerful feature immediately gives me the strongest players who played the white pieces in the AnnotatedGames database Quick search Find Nr White Elo Black Elo Event Site Round Date Result ECO Length 729 Aronian Lev 2805 Gashimov Vugar 2761 74th Tata Steel GMA Wijk aan 6 2012 01 20 1 0 DH 8 a 628 Aronian Lev
52. K button to apply the current settings and exit the dialog back to the main display Engine Preferences w Preferences Board Engines Advanced Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC HIARCS 14 WCSC me Hash table size 256 MB Nalimov tablebase path E TB4 E TBS Nalimoy cache size 64 MB The Engines tab of the Preferences dialog handles adding configuring and removal of chess engines As part of the HIARCS Chess Explorer package you will have the HIARCS 14 World Chess Software Champion engine s available automatically installed and added You can also add any other UCI compatible engine Clicking the Apply button will apply the current settings but keeps the dialog open Clicking the Cancel button will cancel any changes since the last apply and exit the dialog Finally click the OK button to apply the current settings and exit the dialog back to the main display At the bottom of the dialog are the common settings applied to each engine for Hash table size this is a search table chess engines use to cache positions The value is set in Megabytes MB for general use 256Mb is a good size to use In general do not use more than 50 of the physical RAM on your machine The up down arrows allow the adjustment of the Hash table size in values which are powers of 2 e g 64Mb 128Mb 256Mb Alternatively you can click on the value to enter an exact Hash table size Nalimov tablebase path this is the path to local tablebases for the
53. Position search dialog where you can specify a chess position to search for Reset filter This menu item allows you to reset the header search filter all values previously used are cleared The filter will now match all games in the database Reverse filter This menu item allows you to reverse the search filter so only games not matching the original filter are matched This can be used as part of advanced filtering as explained in the Searching and filtering section Help menu The Help menu allows you to access help manuals context sensitive help and enquire about updates Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations are also defined on the menu you can use the keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function directly from the keyboard HIARCS Chess Explorer Help Context help Fi About HIARCS Chess Explorer Check for updates HIARCS Chess Explorer Help This will launch the HIARCS Chess Explorer manual in Windows HTML Help The manual is searchable has a detailed contents and the manual is written to enable easy navigation around it Context help While using HIARCS Chess Explorer it is possible to bring up context sensitive help by using this menu item or the F1 keystroke Context sensitive help gives you help information about the window pane or function you are currently using The menu can only give context sensitive help on the main window Use the F1 key to access context sensitive help from a dialog About H
54. at chess The standard rating system used in chess is called Elo ratings named after Arpad Elo A related system is used in tennis football and many other sports Elo ratings are based on the results of games and ratings of opponents played The Elo rating system ranges from 1000 Elo a complete novice to 2800 Elo and beyond for the strongest players of all time Were a player A to score two points for every one point of player B then player A would be expected from this performance to have an Elo rating about 120 Elo points more than player B As you can see there is a great difference in chess strength as you go up the ratings The ratings can be split into the following broad classes Class of Player Rating Range HIARCS Chess Explorer allows you to set any of these strengths in the play game mode ECO opening naming Chess Informant Inc developed the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings which is a system of classification for chess openings into 5 main groups of openings each of these groups has a 100 different categories of openings HIARCS Chess Explorer can classify openings into their ECO codes and further more name the actual openings You can also access openings by name to practice those openings and also the Player Explorer can Classify favourite openings of players and databases For reference here is an overview of the ECO codes and opening names e A00 A99 Flank openings o A01 Nimzowitsch Larsen Attack A02 A03 Bird s Ope
55. atabase context for this game This is important so you put the game in the correct game collection You can of course copy and paste games to different databases but it makes sense to choose the PGN database appropriate for the game you wish to enter With the database open it appears in HIARCS Chess Explorer in its own tab With the database tab selected you can choose the Game gt New menu item and the Game Notation will be cleared ready for entry of a new game You can enter moves and add comments move symbols evaluation symbols or other symbols at any time using the move context menu Analysing games You can have any compatible UCI engine analyse a game With the game loaded in the Game Notation you can access analyse game in one of two ways e Choose the Game gt Analyse game menu item and the Analysis Explorer will open if not already open and select the last engine used and open the Analyse Game dialog for you to configure the analysis e Alternatively with the Analysis Explorer pane open you can select the engine you wish to use to analyse the game and then click the analyse game icon d next to the engine name os Please see the Analyse Game dialog section for details on configuring game analysis Learning to play openings You can practice playing openings using the non standard starting position element of the Play game dialog E Play game Player Mame Mark Uniacke m Rated game ranking 1600 Opponent
56. atively you may want to not accept the resignation but play further if you would prefer to get practice finishing off your opponent lf you choose to play further the computer will not resign again so you will have prove the win by check mating the computer Resign or offer draw While playing against the computer in play game mode you can resign the game or ask the computer for a draw Resign You can resign a game by selecting the Play gt Resign menu item When you resign a game you are giving victory to your opponent the game will be over You should resign if your position is hopeless and you believe your opponent is strong enough to prove the win Offer draw You can offer a draw to the computer by selecting the Play gt Offer_draw menu item Depending on the computers assessment of its position it will either agree to the draw to reject your draw offers If the computer wants to play on it will inform you as follows 1 Information i The computer wants to play further You should play on as the computer does not want a draw lf the computer agrees to the draw you will see Information The game is now finished Abandon game O save as 0 1 O Save as 1 2 1 2 a Save as Don t save Keep playing When you click the Xon a Play game tab it means you want to abandon the game You will then see the Abandon current game dialog above If you choose the Keep playing button you can resume playing the curre
57. ault OS language is used in HIARCS Chess Explorer when it starts The Piece format can be changed to use either Figurine default or Piece letters Please note when analysis is copied from the Analysis Explorer it is always copied with Piece letters to avoid font issues when pasting analysis lines in other software The Game font can be changed and that font is used in the game notation The fonts for the game list and opening explorer move list is displayed using the default font size set in the OS preferences Databases Databases are auto saved every 10 minutes by default you can modify this if you wish lf the Overwrite existing ECO codes checkbox is set the following actions apply e when a database is loaded into HIARCS Chess Explorer the openings are automatically classified for their ECO opening code overwriting any ECO code already set e any games added will have the ECO code classified by HIARCS Chess Explorer and the ECO field will be read only When Overwrite existing ECO codes checkbox is unset the following actions apply e when a database is loaded into HIARCS Chess Explorer the ECO only classified if it is not present any existing ECO value in the database is never modified e when you save a game HIARCS Chess Explorer will populate the ECO field if it is empty You can always edit the ECO field If you prefer to keep the original ECO code assignment already in PGN databases please uncheck this option Online sources B
58. ay 6 Be3 11565 56 9 2561 2611 2012 42 1 6 Bg5 7121 Doe Vo 2540 2579 2012 21 6 Be2 4813 22 0 2531 2552 2012 10 5 6 Bc4 2010 48 5 29153 2527 2012 GP 1773 37 2 2597 2606 2012 10 5 6 14 1539 51 8 2513 2540 2012 de o 6 93 765 31 4 2521 25937 2012 aql 565 91 3 2521 2529 2012 6 h3 497 94 5 2557 2585 2012 10 5 6 Rgl 99 93 Oo 2512 2561 2011 6 Bd3 92 a O 2513 2537 2011 6 0T3 39 62 9 2502 2613 2012 6 0e2 13 42 3 2495 2472 2011 6 83 a 50 US 2590 2522 2011 6 Nb3 3 66 7 2536 2678 2006 6 e5 1 50 US 2610 2700 2001 Source Online book GM wi Opening Explorer showing the move amp statistics for the Sicilian Najdorf position using the GM online opening book available in the Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer product Opening Explorer presents the following statistics against each move e Moves presented in algebraic notation with move symbols assessing the quality of the moves e Games the number of games where the move has been played e Score the percentage score of the move in practice over those games The Score is always given from White s perspective so it is easier for you to compare moves irrespective of which side is to play Rating the average Elo rating of the players who played the move e Performance the average performance Elo rating as a result of playing the move this takes into account the average Elo rating of the opponents played and the performance of the move e Year the last year that
59. calendar icon PGN dates are in YYYY MM DD format Save game as Save game as Players White Spence David J Black Dorrington Chris J Tournament Event British Championship site Canterbury ENG Event date Game Information Round ECO Date Result 10 O 1212 Oo 1 Use last header This Save game as dialog is accessed from the Game gt Save as menu item lt enables you to set the header fields for a new game It is important to set the correct values for a game as it makes it easier to find the game later You can set all the mandatory fields of a PGN game in this dialog it also allows you to edit add new tags in the Extra tags tab Please note you can set a date either by entering it or using the built in calendar by clicking the calendar icon PGN dates are in YYYY MM DD format Play game Play game Player Name Mark Uniacke kee Rated game ranking 1600 Opponent Engine Deep HIARCS 14 WESC k Rating Maximum Match player strength Gei Custom 1800 2 _ Think on player s time Time control Time per game with increment Smin plus 5s lt gt Extra for human player D min _ Nonstandard starting position Color Accessed by clicking the Play game shortcut icon The dialog is also accessed from the Play gt New game menu item This dialog enables you to configure the type of game you wish to play against the computer
60. checked then any previous analysis by an engine will be removed e Finally you can select which side of play you wish the engine to analyse the moves of White Black or both sides Please note if you analyse the same game with different engines or with the same engine but a different time per move then it is important to set an Annotating engine name to help distinguish which engine the analysis came from Click OK to begin the game analysis The game analysis is performed in reverse order from the end of the game to the beginning of the game This helps improve the analysis especially with HIARCS chess engines which learn from their previous analysis and can use that information of future outcomes as the analysis progresses backwards through the game As the game analysis progresses HIARCS Chess Explorer will use the chess engine s analysis of the moves and variations to annotate the game with chess symbols to indicate where blunders poor dubious interesting and good moves are found and add alternative variations to the Game Notation pane where they are considered useful As the game is analysed the current move being analysed is displayed in the History amp Statistics view For example Analysing 25 Nd3 at depth 15 5 5M nodes analysed in 0 12 430K per second tbhits 1 The progress of Analyse Game is also shown in the progress bar at the bottom of the HIARCS Chess Explorer window You can also cancel the analysis in progress by click
61. click the Show Games button and Game Explorer will set a refined Filter to these two games and display the two Kasparov games which contain this position w Top Games HIARCS Chess Explorer File Edit View Game Play Search Help 0000000 KA E Mo Newgame B90 Sicilian Najdorf Byrne English Attack 1 e4 ch 2 473 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 2xd4 f6 5 4c3 ap 6 2e3 es 7 2b3 Seb 8 73 bd7 9 94 h6 10 d2 Y Games Score Rating Performance Year 1 100 0 2610 2025 1998 1 100 0 2740 2025 1998 Quick search Let i Nr White Elo Black Elo Event Site Round Date Result ECO Length 2934 Kasparov Garry 2825 Huzman Alexander 2610 ISR vs Kasparo Tel Aviv ISR 2 4 1998 05 21 1 0 Do 41 3006 Kasparov Garry 2825 Ivanchuk Vassily 2740 Chess Classic Gi Frankfurt GER 1 1998 06 19 1 0 Do 20 2 35431 games Now while the statistics do not look good for Black here there are simply too few games to form any real opinion on these moves So we consult the Online GM book Move Games Score Rating Performance Year Play 10 b5 8 11 4 2561 2680 2010 50 10 Be 71 21 73 8 2979 2713 2011 50 ID LC 4 5 50 0 2559 2693 008 Source Mii ae This gives us some confidence that it may be worth pursuing the 10 b5 or 10 Be7 line So we select the game containing the popular 10 b5 and following that game using the book sources to see what improvement we could make in this line we follow the game some more Top Games
62. d The Close button exits the dialog Players tab view The Players tab view enables the selection of a player in order to view detailed information about the games performances and openings of the player or whole database Please see the Players tab section for more details Information tab view The Information tab view shows the detailed information about the selected player their games results performance and favourite openings Please see the Information tab view section for more details Players tab view Player Explorer Database Acs Peter Adams Michael Adianto Utut Adly Ahmed Agdestein Simen Agrest Evgenij Akobian Varuzhan Akopian Vladimir Aleksandrov Aleksej Alekseev Evgeny Almasi Zoltan Alterman Boris Amin Bassem Amonatov Farrukh Anand Viswanathan Anastasian Ashot Andersson Ulf Andreikin Dmitry Andriasian Zaven Annakov Babakuli Antoniewski Rafal Areshchenko Alexander Information k Show player Update list When you first open Player Explorer you will see a list of the players who have played games in the database The top entry is always the entire database and this can give an excellent overview of the games in the database To find a specific player you can either scroll through the list of players or more conveniently enter the name of the player you are interested in as you enter characters in the Find field the Player Explorer will narrow down the choices of play
63. d functionality In this section we look at the menus available and describe the purpose of each menu item File menu The File menu allows you to manipulate files Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations are also defined on the menu you can use the keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function directly from the keyboard You can also see shortcut icons for some menu items on the menu as a guide that there is a shortcut toolbar icon for the option D New Ctrl ShiH N k Open Cl Open recent j Export S Print j Close ctrl F4 Quit New Create a new PGN database you will be given a New database dialog to set the new database name The new PGN database will then be created and opened in a new tab Open Open an existing PGN database you will be given an Open database dialog to select the database to open The PGN database will then be opened in a new tab Open recent 1 PlayedGames pan 2 notepad db pgn 3 AnnotatedGames pgn 4 TopGames pan This menu item gives a submenu of recently opened PGN databases you will see a list of the databases you have recently opened you can choose one of these and it will be opened in a new tab The above submenu image is an example Export All games Ctrl Shift E Games in filter Export games to a new database you can either export all games in the current database or only the games in the current filter An Export games dialog will open so you can se
64. d give you some ideas on how it can be used Finding games There are many ways in HIARCS Chess Explorer to find games in an open database e Select the Search header DA toolbar icon or Search gt Header menu item to access the Search header dialog to search the database for games matching game header criteria e g players event rating dates etc etc Please see the Search header section for more details e Open the Game Explorer pane and use the Quick search field for fast searching Open the Opening Explorer and use the Source Database and Show games button to show all games matching the current poition Open the Player Explorer and find games of a particular player e Use the Search gt Position menu item to open the Search for position dialog to find the games containing a position you are interested in When you first open a database the current filter is set to the whole database When you search for games the result is normally a subset of the games and this subset is the current game filter Every time you search for games it creates a new filter of games Using the Header search it is possible to add to the current filter of games Finding players You can find a player in the open database as follows e Ifyou have a game open in the Game Notation pane with the player you are interested in you can click the player name to access the Player information with games performances and favourite openings etc e Open the Player Ex
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66. en opening very large databases it can take some time to load all the games and build the required views of the data However once the database is loaded even complex position searches are performed almost instantly Equally when you exit a database tab containing a very large database it takes time to save if changes have been made to that database Databases and Filters In HIARCS Chess Explorer there are up to 3 groups of games which some operations can be applied to e Database all the games in the database e Filter only the games in the current search filter e Current game Some functions operate on all three groups while others handle only the current game or some combination of game and filter When you first open a database the current filter is set to the whole database When you search for games the resulting set of games becomes the new filter In numeric terms the size of the filter is shown on the status bar in the bottom right hand corner of the window for example 287 34191 games This shows you that the Game Explorer is showing 287 out of 34191 games The current filter contains those 287 games There many ways to search for games that set the games filter you can read more about these in the Finding games section Although the filter is normally set as a result of a search you can add to the existing filter using the Header search Elo ratings Chess players are given a chess rating to gauge how strong they are
67. en played once in GM practice and that was in this game Let s consult the Online GM book for more information and possible moves Move Games Score Rating Performance Year Play a 56 2 2545 2563 2004 380 D 03 3 2500 26806 2010 20 1 100 0 2825 3540 1998 Source Mil a ae Indeed the Online GM book indicates 13 g6 is dubious We can also see that the Online GM book is recommending the mowe 13 Rc8 and the statistics look reasonable for this move for Black We could now prepare this line further but this is beyond the scope of this manual You can see how the multiple sources of information can be used to help prepare your openings Finally for HIARCS book subscribers you can access the World s strongest opening book directly from within HIARCS Chess Explorer Once you have entered your book license in the Preferences gt Advanced tab Select the Source Tournament book and you will see the moves from the HIARCS Tournament book in Opening Explorer Move Games Score Rating Performance Year Play a TB EH 41 94 9 2305 2044 2012 57 1 13 Be7 25 68 0 2584 2730 2011 28 5 113 Ro3 16 68 8 2590 2716 2012 14 2 13 g6 1 100 0 2825 3540 1998 Source Online book Tournament Here we can see the HIARCS Tournament book offers the interesting move 13 Nc4 The multiple sources of the Opening Explorer can be used in many ways to help you analyse games positions and openings hope this section has helpe
68. enables you to get genuinely useful practice against our handicap opponents as they will challenge you very much like a human player of that strength while making similar mistakes to players of that strength In addition it matches the opening book moves to the playing strength and even forgets its book moves or mixes up move orders to simulate real play View previous games played against computer HIARCS Chess Explorer saves all the games you play against the computer unless you explicitly tell it to abandon a game and not save it You can access all the games you have played in the special PlayedGames database simply by selecting the Play gt View played games menu item AE Mew game Ctrl 6 L View played games View rated users This will automatically open a new database tab for the PlayedGames PGN database and display all the games played in the Games Explorer pane at the bottom of the window Creating a database A PGN database represents a collection of games You can use a PGN database to organise games Please see the section on creating a PGN database for details It is beneficial to organise games into databases so you can utilise the powerful features of HIARCS Chess Explorer Managing my games To manage your games we recommend you maintain a PGN database of your games don t store the games of other players in this database This will enable you to use the Opening Explorer feature on this database to give y
69. engines to use you can set multiple paths by clicking the Add button Nalimov cache size this is the size of an endgame cache of Nalimov tablebase positions If you have all 4 5 amp 6 piece tablebases then use 512MB or more For 5 piece tablebases you can use less e g 128MB For just 4 piece tablebases 32MB is enough The up down arrows allow the adjustment of the Nalimov cache size in values which are powers of 2 e g 64Mb 128Mb 256Mb Alternatively you can click on the value to enter an exact Nalimov cache size The Nalimov tablebase path can be set by clicking on the button when you will be given a Choose directories dialog Choose directories you can then browse to the folder s where you have the tablebases stored and you can Add each folder that contains tablebase files You can also edit and remove folder paths and change the order of them Add an engine To add a new engine only UCI chess engines are supported you simply click the Add button and you will be given a Select engine executable dialog to browse and find the engine to add Please see the Add_an engine section for details Configure an engine To configure an engine s options have the engine highlighted in the engine list of the preferences dialog and select the Configure button You will then be presented with an engine configuration dialog Remove an engine To remove an engine highlight the engine you want to remove in
70. ers in the list to aid your quick selection Player Explorer uses whatever you type to search the database of player names and give those that match Player Explorer Adams Michael Krasenkow Michal Roiz Michael Information Show player Update list To select a player or the whole database you can click on the appropriate player and click the Show player button to view the details about that player Alternatively if you double click a player from the list the Information tab will automatically open to show you those details The Update list button can be used to update the statistics if you have added modified or deleted any games to this database since the Player Explorer dialog was opened The Close button allows you to exit the Player Explorer dialog Information tab view The Information tab shows detailed information about the selected player their games results performance and favourite openings This dialog is a very powerful navigation aid for chess players so we will try to explain it in detail If you have a game open in the Game Notation pane with the player you are interested in you can click the player name to access this Player information directly Gi Player Explorer Adams Michael Players 1000 games in database TopGames Date 1995 2012 05 17 Rating 2630 2755 Total 1000 games 52 8 229 598 173 White 499 games 59 6 155 285 59 Black 501 games 46 0 74 313 114
71. es with Black doing quite well The Da Move Games Score Rating Performance Year Play iih 4 Ed RL IRA 7587 2010 100 eme Opening Explorer pe 13 pespuiarcs eue AMOO 0 20 19 11 812 727 012 an ro 14 903 deed 15 axe4 xe4 Analysis Explorer g5 ld White Black Elo Event Site Round Date Result ECO Ponomariov Ru Kramnik Vladimir 2790 Sparkassen GM Dortmund 2 2010 EI Le Quang Liem Ponomarioy b DaS Naiditsch Arkadij Kramnik Va Game Ex p lorer o 0 BOT Robson Ray Fedorowicz senas dd E A A y B48 Zatonskih Anna Krush Irina 2476 ch USA w StLouis USA 3 1 2 1 2 A61 768 768 games The main windows of HIARCS Chess Explorer is split into the following parts Title of window Current database name HIARCS Chess Explorer Menus at the top of the window Shortcut icons for accessing common functions tabs one per database here we have only one database open called AnnotatedGames Game Board which shows the current position of the game being examined Game Notation shows the current loaded game including comments variations and symbols etc v Game Explorer shows the list of games in the database and provides functions to explore the database for games The Game Explorer pane is optional and its presence is toggled using the Database Info icon Q Opening Explorer provides multi source real time access to opening moves and statistics The Opening Explorer pane is optional and its presence
72. essed from the Edit an ee gt Set_up position menu item The Setup Position dialog allows you to edit an existing position or set up a new position altogether The dialog shows the following information The current board position of the edit The current side to move in the position The move number of the position The current FEN of the position at the bottom of the dialog On the right hand side there is a palette of chess pieces to select from Changing the position You can change the position in a number of ways e You can drag any piece to another square to move it e You can drag any piece off the board to remove it e You can select any piece colour from the palette o then click on one or more squares to add the piece on that square o if you click on a square which already contains that piece colour it will be removed from the square leaving it empty Operation buttons There are a number of buttons to perform actions on the position Clear button will clear the board of pieces leaving an empty board Reset button will reset the position to the opening chess position Paste FEN will paste a FEN position from the clipboard onto the board Copy FEN will copy the current board position shown onto the clipboard Cancel will cancel the position set up and return to the game window OK will accept the position set up and return to the game window with the new position Advanced In the advanced tab you can adjust e the Castling r
73. existing game in the game notation has been changed and not saved you will be asked if you wish to save it before going to the selected game Any selected games which is opened will then appear in the game notation pane Start stop analysis This menu item allows you to start or stop the analysis of the current position by a chess engine The effect of this menu items depends on what is currently showing in the Analysis Explorer e ifthe current engine is analysing it will stop analysing e ifthe current engine is idle it will start analysing e Ifthe Analysis Explorer is not currently open this menu item will open it and start the last used chess engine Analyse game This menu item opens the Analyse game dialog so you can set the settings for the current engine to analyse the game If the Analysis Explorer pane is not open it will be opened New This menu item starts a new game in this database tab If the existing game in the game notation has been changed and not saved you will be asked if you wish to save it before starting the new game Please note this is starting a new game to enter not to play you can play games via the Play menu Edit header This menu item opens the Edit header dialog so you can view or edit the header information for the game Save This menu item saves the current game in the current database replacing the existing game if it was already in the database Save as new game This menu item saves the current
74. he Game Explorer pane Please note you can easily make advanced searching combinations see the Quick search section for details Top Games HIARCS Chess Explorer File Edit View Game Play E Search Help 22000 1000009 TR ETS Top aames E Kasparov Garry 2720 Miles Anthony J 2610 1 0 Mato Basel SUT fi 1986 A56 Czech Benoni Be 1 d4 f6 2 c4 c5 3 d5 e5 4 4 c3 d6 5 e4 2e7 6 43 0 0 7 h3 bd 8 94 e8 9 2d3 a6 10 a4 b8 11 291 cf 12 b3 2e8 13 h4 b5 14 95 8 15 h5 2d7 16 2h2 bxc4 17 2xc4 f5 18 exf5 xf 19 871 Ud 20 2e3 e4 21 2b2 2d8 22 282 Of 23 874 2c8 24 294 dei 25 293 Wt 26 292 a8 27 45 CZ 28 2h4 b5 29 96 hxg6 30 xg6 2f6 31 2xb5 xb5 32 c2 xb 33 xb2 xg6 34 2xg6 2e5 35 0 0 0 Exh5 36 2 dg1 2h 37 lt c4 f4 38 2b1 Ch 39 4xd6 275 40 276 Uh 41 293 h1 42 a2 1 0 Quick search Kasparov Event Site Round Date Result ECO Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov Garry Miles Anthony J Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Anand Viswanat Match PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final PCA we final Basel SUI New York New York New York New York New York New York New York L pp dd d 1995 09 12 1995 09 15 1995 09 22 1995 09 26 1995 09 29 1995 10 0
75. he documentation and help files for the product e Engine Data this folder contains the engine data folders HIARCS 14 will save its learn files here e Explorer this folder contains files specific to the HIARCS Chess Explorer GUI Activation When HIARCS Chess Explorer first runs you will be asked to enter your license key Your personal license key was emailed to you immediately after you purchased HIARCS Chess Explorer Enter the license name and code into the Registration dialog to activate the product Registration Please provide user name and license code for HIARCS Chess Explorer Licence name License code You can copy Ctrl C and paste Ctrl V the license name and code into each field Once you have entered the license name and code click the Register button to activate HIARCS Chess Explorer After a short delay you will then get confirmation that HIARCS Chess Explorer has been successfully registered activated Information 1 HIARCS Chess Explorer was successfully registered If there is something wrong with the entered license name and code you will be given the following dialog Information 1 The name or code is wrong Please try again You should then click OK and enter the correct license name and code into the Registration dialog Updating your license In the vast majority of cases you will not have to update your license however when you have purchased HIARCS Chess Explorer and wish
76. hess engines are designed and developed by Mark Uniacke Chess piece set images by Eric de Mund and Bruno Rizzuti based on fonts by Eric Bentzen and Armando Marroquin User Manual written by Mark Uniacke Language translations English by Mark Uniacke French by Alain Zanchetta German by Christian Goralski Italian by Bruno Rizzuti Polish by Michal Rudolf Russian by IM Beglar Jobava and Spanish by Amador Cuesta Many games and annotations provided by www chess co uk Beta testing and feedback by Ole Christensen Chris Cook Richard Fowell Eric Hallsworth Jonathan Naud Matt Read Bruno Rizzuti and Harvey Williamson and a number of other testers who prefer to remain private Thank you to all those people who helped make HIARCS Chess Explorer a better product We also thank Eugene Nalimov and Andrew Kadatch for their kind permission to use their access code copyright c Eugene Nalimov and decompression code copyright c Andrew Kadatch for Nalimov tablebases in HIARCS chess engines System requirements HIARCS Chess Explorer has the following system requirements PC Windows Requires PC MS Windows XP Vista Windows 7 all versions 32 amp 64 bit Computer Any Intel or AMD with at least 512Mb RAM running one of the OSs above Languages supported in the GUI are English UK English US French German Italian Polish Russian and Spanish Included items HIARCS Chess Explorer includes the following main components
77. ights of the current position shown in the Board tab please note in any position HIARCS Chess Explorer will initially set the most likely castling rights for the position e set the number of plies half moves since the last capture or pawn move Export games Export games Look in eB My Computer Mame Size Type Date Modified 3 Mark Uniacke 3 PlayedGames pgn SKE pgn File 06 07 2012 03 26 03 AnnotatedGames pgn 1 6 MB pon File 23 04 2012 05 17 32 TopGames pan 24 2 MB pon File 27 04 2012 19 23 42 Fischer Spassky pan 36 KB pon File 11 08 2011 01 43 06 Kasparov Karpov pgn 122 KB pgn File 11 08 2011 01 23 20 This Export games dialog is accessed from the File gt Export gt menu_item lt enables you to select a PGN file name to export the games to Enter the file name of the database you wish to export to and click Save You can also browse to another folder if you wish to export to a PGN database in a different folder Please note Export games will create a new database Therefore if you choose an existing database to export to you will be warned that the database will be replaced f you intended to copy games to append to a database then use the Copy games menu option Copy games Games in filter All games To AnnotatedGames notepad db This Copy Games dialog is accessed from the Edit gt Copy gt Games menu item It enables you to copy game s
78. in the database here is an example from the TopGames database w Player Explorer Database Players 34191 games in database TopGames Date 1971 2012 04 15 Rating 2600 2851 Total 34191 games 55 7 9796 18481 5908 i Information Opening statistics Slav Defence 2522 games 53 7 612 1486 424 Nimzo Indian Defence 1647 games 56 3 452 951 244 Queen s Indian Defence 1560 games 54 5 400 901 259 Sicilian Defence Najdorf 1502 games 54 9 484 682 336 Caro Kann Defence 1428 games 55 1 396 780 251 1 King s Indian Defence 1418 games 55 2 453 659 306 Semi Slav 1410 games 54 5 381 775 254 Grunfeld Defence Classical 1076 games 54 1 274 616 186 Queen s Gambit Declined 1017 games 56 2 275 591 150 1 Ruy Lopez Berlin Defence 965 games 55 4 249 571 145 Ruy Lopez Closed 838 games 58 2 259 457 121 1 English 1 04 ch 815 games 54 9 225 445 145 Petroff Defence 3 Nxe5 751 games 56 7 181 490 80 Queen s Gambit Accepted 708 games 58 1 205 413 90 English 1 c4e5 694 games 54 2 191 370 133 Ruy Lopez Closed sidelines 687 games 57 4 194 401 92 Catalan Opening 597 games 57 4 155 375 67 Sidlian Defence 2 Nf3 early deviations 574 games 55 7 180 280 114 Sidlian Defence Taimanov variation 552 games 58 7 184 280 88 Sicilian Defence Kan variation 536 games 57 4 186 243 107 Update player
79. in window The Opening Explorer is used to explore openings and other positions from various sources Game Explorer This menu item allows you to open the Game Explorer pane at the bottom of the main window The Game Explorer is used to explore Games in a database Player Explorer This menu item allows you to open the Player Explorer dialog The Player Explorer is used to explore players their games and performances in a database Flip board This menu item will turn the board around for example by default White is playing up the board if you turn the board White will be playing down the board and Black up it Game menu The Game menu allows you perform operations on the current game or select other games Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations are also defined on the menu you can use the keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function directly from the keyboard You can also see shortcut icons for some menu items on the menu as a guide that there is a shortcut toolbar icon for the option Go to E Select j Start stop analysis F2 Analyse game b it Mew Ctrl HN A Edit header Ctrl 8 Save Clip Save as new game Delete Ctrl Shitt Del Go to i Beginning of the game Home Previous 5 moves Up ai Previous move Left d Next move Right Next 5 moves Down mt End of the game End Enter variation Ctrl Right Exit variation Ctrl Left This submenu allows you to navigate around the current game in
80. ing pieces around You can use the Paste FEN button to paste a position from the clipboard into this dialog to quickly set a position you want to search for Equally from any position set you can copy the position to the clipboard using the Copy FEN button The current position in FEN format is displayed at the bottom of the dialog The Clear button enables you to clear the board of pieces so you can set a completely new position from scratch to search for The Reset button will set the normal opening position The Cancel button will abort the dialog and not perform a search Once you click the OK button HIARCS Chess Explorer will search the current database for the position and display the games in the game list in the Games Explorer pane Please note Opening Explorer also provides a real time position search capability from positions in the Game Notation Please see the Opening Explorer section for details Preferences Preferences Engines A Chess set Board style light wood e Colors EAS Highlighted squares eee Frame Dees Engine move ES Book move DO Good move AAA Bad move Show coordinates Draw frame between squares Guess move on left click _ Highlight last engine move i Accessed by clicking the preferences Kb shortcut icon The dialog is also accessed from the Edit e gt Preferences menu item This dialog can be used to configure the preferences for HIARCS Chess Explorer The preferences
81. ing the x next to the progress bar Analysing the game 7 193 193 games Endgame tablebase access Endgame outcome information is available in endgame databases called Nalimov tablebases Any engine supporting Nalimov tablebases can utilise your local endgame tablebases The folders to access these databases should be set up in the Engine preferences tab along with the Nalimov cache setting While having tablebases stored locally can be useful for analysis they do take up a lot of storage space with 6 piece tablebases taking up about 1 000 Gb of storage Also acquiring all this data can be very time consuming and even expensive some retailers sell a small subset of the data on multiple DVDs yet that gives you less than 5 of the data you need For many customers this is simply not a practical solution for them With HIARCS Chess Explorer you have automatic online access to about 1 000Gb of endgame databases with precise information about the game result and outcomes of each move available This information is perfect it knows the game result and if a win exists it can give the number of moves to checkmate with perfect play In order of obtain this information the Use Hiarcs server checkbox must be checked on This is the default setting Whenever you reach a endgame with 6 or fewer pieces on the board HIARCS Chess Explorer will try to determine the outcome of the game for you The results if available are displayed in the Analy
82. ious game in database Load next game in database Load a recent game previously loaded in this database Game icons A md O These game shortcut icons give you quick access to common operations on the game Create a new game ready for game entry ER i 1 El Set up position to modify the existing position or set up a new position Edit game header this gives you the ability to set or modify the header information for the Rotate the board 180 degrees effectively changing the colour of the player playing up the Go to the start of the game Takeback last move played in the game Make the next move in the game Go to the end of the game Replay moves in the game from the current position onwards View icons 3 EAS These shortcut icons give you quick access to common operations affecting the presentation or mode of presentation Pause stop the replay of the game This is only seen during a game replay a aa Play a game against the computer Show the Analysis Explorer pane Show the Opening Explorer pane wei Show the Preferences dialo Y em Play icons VIER These play game shortcut toolbar icons give you quick access to common operations while playing a game against the computer Pause the game in progress Stop the clocks if present so you can take a break Click again to resume Force the computer to move immediately whe
83. istical vew of moves available The moves form part of a tree of chess positions so it can track any game and moves played and present in real time the move options available and the statistics for those moves from many different sources The data presented in the Opening Explorer pane can be sorted by any of the column headers which can help depending on how you wish to look at the data You can select multiple sources for the Opening Explorer vew You select the source from the Source selector where you can choose from Database Filter Local and Online opening books With the database source you can perform real time game filtering The chess tree is automatically updated in real time in the database and filter source context as games are added modified or deleted In the Database source context you can also set Opening Explorer to automatically update the games filter and game list shown in the Game Explorer pane This can be a very powerful feature to allow you to only see the games appropriate to the opening you are exploring With a Filter source context you can have Opening Explorer show only the games of particular players or opponents you might be facing you can even have Opening Explorer just show moves and statistics from your own games These approaches allow you to have Opening Explorer give an automatic real time view of an opening repertoire at any position Move statistics Move Games Score Rating Performance Year Pl
84. just as a repository to store games but as a way of organising your games and analysis for example you can store your games in multiple databases for different purposes O maintain a database of your own games to get an automatic opening repertoire tree generated for you O prepare for an opponent by generating a database of their games and having their opening repertoire tree presented automatically o Analyse games of your favourite player and get additional information about the player their moves openings and performances e Manage multiple databases at the same time to perform distinct operations simultaneously O Have an analysis database open where an engine can be analysing your game O Simultaneously you can be examining other databases of games and working independently of the analysis being done for you in another database o Manage game collections more effectively by having access to multiple sources o Transfer games between databases more quickly and smoothly Don t panic if that sounds complex it really is not and we have example usage in the Getting started section to show how different tasks can be achieved simply within HIARCS Chess Explorer If you are a novice user do not worry as HIARCS Chess Explorer can be used to manipulate just a single game and database at a time if you prefer to keep things very simple One of the key aims of HIARCS Chess Explorer is to simplify the user experience and provide a set of powerful to
85. layers This online book is available to HIARCS Book subscribers and is the same as delivered as part of the HIARCS book subscription and is known to be the strongest commercial opening book and has been for a number of years Move Games Score Rating Performance Year Playa 6 Bg5 7761 SEI 2529 2579 2012 66 6 6 Bc4 2224 52 2 2506 2530 2012 16 6 6 Be 21 1080 51 2 2500 2521 2012 GP 495 55 1 2510 2555 2012 16 6 6 93 310 51 1 2493 2524 2012 6 5e3 233 51 7 2495 2524 2012 6H 186 93 0 2432 2530 2012 16 312 95 50 9 2597 2609 2011 6 Nb3 45 45 9 2476 2494 2011 6 Bb5 15 40 ZS 2477 2526 2009 6 Nde2 4 37 5 2447 2470 2007 6 Mxc6 3 0 0 2493 1693 2004 Source Online book GM Each online book is a regularly updated tree of chess moves statistics and games from different sources Updates to the online books are automatically and seamlessly handled by HIARCS Chess Explorer and the HIARCS Chess Server You can access statistics about the online source by moving the mouse cursor over the Source selector when an online source is selected you will then see a book stats pop up Book GM version 14 002 3 234 003 positions 277 485 variations 588 243 games Our online books are updated regularly and we expect to grow our online book sources over time Analysis Explorer Lines E Deep HIARCS 14 wesc E 12 1 63 16 14 2xd6 Zc8 15 Ya4 Wb6 16 4f4
86. ll display a dialog like the following The coach suggests there is one very good move in this position Do you want to find it Tabak Again you have two choices to accept the coach advice and takeback your move and look for the one very good move available if after looking for sometime you cannot find it but really want to know what move it is you can click the hint icon to have the move demonstrated Alternatively you can ignore the coach and continue playing Coach warning Mistake played and very good move available It is possible that the move you made was a mistake and also one very good move exists In this case the Coach gives you the following warning dialog Do you want to find it The coach thinks your move is a mistake and suggests there is one very good move in this position how refutation Takeback You can ask the coach to demonstrate the refutation of the move you made by clicking the Show refutation button The refuting move will then be demonstrated on the board You have two options you can Ignore the coach and continue playing or accept the coach advice and takeback the move and consider your previous move again Computer resignation i Question The computer wants to resigns Accept resignation Play further During game play if you manage to reach an overwhelming advantage the computer will offer its resignation You can accept the resignation and the game will end in your favour altern
87. n the current line while up arrow will jump back 5 moves on the current line Undo Redo You can perform unlimited undo and redo operations performed in the Game Notation on the current game since it was loaded See the Undo Redo section for details Move context menu You can right click on any move to bring up the move_context menu which enable you to add edit and remove comments diagrams move evaluation and other symbols Move context menu You can right click on any move in the Game Notation to bring up the move context menu as below Add comment Add move symbol Add evaluation symbol Add other symbol Promote variation Remove variation Remove previous moves Remove next moves This menu enables you to add edit and remove comments move and evaluation symbols The following sections explain how these actions are achieved Comments Move symbols Evaluation symbols Other symbols To remove the symbols select the remove symbols menu item Add comment Add move symbol Add evaluation symbol Add other symbol Remove symbols Remove previous moves Remove next moves When you right click to access the Move context menu you are setting the move you right clicked on as the context Depending on the context you may have the following options applicable at that point e Promote variation this is used to promote a variation up one level closer to becoming the main line of the game When promoting a variation
88. n the engine is thinking Take back your last mowe including the computer response Replay your last move If you had previously performed a takeback this icon will replay e a both your move and the computer response If no takeback was performed this icon will replay the computer s last move played O Change sides with the computer You will be asked to confirm this as you can imagine you should not do this in a rated game if you want an accurate chess rating Set up position enabling you to modify the current position and even set up a new one Toggle the coach on or off The coach is on when this icon is highlighted The coach e o provides move advice and warnings when you make mistakes or miss good moves Ask the computer for a hint move This will be graphical demonstrated on the board Short cut keystrokes You can access many common operations using shortcut keystrokes The keystrokes for common operations are displayed on each menu Please see the section on menus to discover the shortcut keystrokes for different menu options File menu Edit menu View menu Game menu Play menu Search menu Help menu Menus File Edit View Game Play Search Help HIARCS Chess Explorer uses menus to access much of its functionality Many of the menus have shortcut key strokes that can be used to access the function from the keyboard There are also many shortcut_icons which give quick one click access to commonly use
89. nalyse a game in multiple database contexts or even in other chess software and merge your work at the end into one single game in HIARCS Chess Explorer This allows you to collate all your analysis from multiple sources into one game within the Game Notation This is also useful if someone else does some analysis for you and sends you the game you can easily merge the game with your own work Copy filter and database games HIARCS Chess Explorer allows you to copy all the games in the current filter or even the whole database of games to another database in a very simple manner First ensure you open the database you want to copy the games from and the database you wish to copy the games to Go into the tab of the database you wish to copy from If you want to set a filter of games to copy you can do that in the normal way using the search and filter capabilities To copy and paste the games in one operation select the Edit gt Copy gt Games menu item and you can then copy either a single game the current filter of games or the whole database into another database in one operation Printing games HIARCS Chess Explorer can print single or multiple games including commentary variations and chess diagrams File gt Print submenu Current game Ctrl P Games from filter Any loaded game can be printed simply by selecting the File gt Print gt Current_game menu item The game can be printed directly to a printer or to a file You can se
90. ning A04 A09 Reti Opening A10 A39 English opening A40 42 Queen s Pawn Opening A43 Benoni Old Benoni O O O O 53 O 0 00 0 00 O A45 A50 Queen s Pawn 1 d4 Nf6 A51 A52 Budapest Gambit A53 A55 Old Indian Defence A56 Czech Benoni A57 A59 Benko Volga Gambit A60 A79 Modern Benoni A80 A99 Dutch Defence e BO0 B99 Semi open games not including the French defence O Oy 10 O Wr O O BOO King s Pawn Opening B01 Scandinavian Defence B02 B05 Alekhine Defence B06 Modern Robatsch Defence B07 B09 Pirc Defence B10 B19 Caro Kann Defence B20 B99 Sicilian Defence e C00 C99 Open games including the French defence O O O GO 30 O EN EI E Er E ER E EK ET 0200 sO O C00 C19 French Defence C20 King s Pawn Game C21 Danish Gambit C22 Center Game C23 C24 Bishop s Opening C25 C29 Vienna Game C30 C32 King s Gambit Declined C33 C39 King s Gambit Accepted C40 Latvan Gambit C41 Philidor Defence C42 C43 Petroff Defence 3 Nxe5 C44 Ponziani Opening C45 Scotch Game C46 Three Knights Game C47 C49 Four Knights Game C50 Italian Game Giuoco Pianissimo C51 C52 Evans Gambit C53 C54 Giuoco Piano 4 c3 C55 C59 Two Knights Defence C60 C99 Ruy Lopez e DO00 D99 Closed and semi closed games O O O Er E E Oe ET 0 O E O D00 D03 Queen s Pawn Game D04 D05 Colle System D06 D09 Queen s Gambit Irregular D10 D19 Slav Defence D20 D29 Queen s Gambit Accepted D30 Queen s Gambit Declined Slav D31 Queen s
91. nt game as if the X was not clicked If you wish to Abandon the game you first need to decide how you want the game abandoned Here are the options Save as 1 0 Game will be saved as a White win Save as 0 1 Game will be saved as a Black win Save as 1 2 1 2 Game will be saved as a draw Save as Game will be saved as an unfinished game no result assigned Don t save the game will not be saved HIARCS Chess Explorer examines the current position and makes the default selection the one it expects you will want to make Choose the appropriate game outcome action and click the Abandon button to abandon the game Out of time When playing a game against the computer using a time control if you run out of time you will see the Out of time dialog Out of time You run out of time What do you want to do O Resign Add time to my clock 1 min You are given the choice e Resign the game after all you lost the game on time e Continue the game by adding time to your clock Rated users Rated users Rating Games Result 1262 15 60 9 6 Mark Uniacke 1954 3 100 3 Remove User Cancel This Rated users dialog is accessed from the Play gt View rated users menu item It shows the current users who have ratings the number of games played and the results so far achieved Please see our Elo Ratings section for an explanation of ratings Header search 6 Header Search gece SO Results 1 0 0 1 112 112
92. ols for the novice and accomplished player alike to analyse and play chess Database tabs ww MyGames TopGames AnnotatedGames E Playing game notepad db Each database in HIARCS Chess Explorer is opened within a tab This means you can have multiple databases open simultaneously without having to manage lots of windows You can move tabs around by simply selecting a tab and dragging and dropping the tab into a new placement for example you can drag the notepad db tab and place it between the MyGames and TopGames database tabs To work on a database simply click on the tab and the database and its display panes will be accessible In the above example we have 5 tabs open MyGames database where am entering a game The packaged TopGames database where am examining some games The packaged AnnotatedGames database where am playing though an annotated game Playing game tab where am playing a game against the computer Notepad db where have HIARCS analysing a game NN gt As you will find out HIARCS Chess Explorer makes it simple to have multiple databases open at the same time and this ease and flexibility allows a different approach to analysing and working with databases compared to single game database programs You can close a database at any time by clicking X next to the name of the database tab or by selecting the File gt Close menu item which will close the database in the current selected active tab Please note wh
93. omatically set filter checkbox With that set the game list will update automatically in real time to show only the games which reach the current position With the filer set automatically the Show games button will no longer be required so will not be displayed Filter source Move Score Rating Performance Year Lea 169 70 1 2826 856 2011 L d4 oF 73 05 2816 2878 2011 Lact 15 45 7 8118 2710 2001 LNF 15 66 7 811 2812 2011 end 1 100 0 2812 3584 1999 Source Filter e When using the Source Filter in Opening Explorer you are presented with only the moves and statistics from the filtered database games for the current position on the board You can narrow the current filter down to only those games which have the current position in them simply by clicking the Show games button Please see the Opening preparation section for details on how Opening Explorer can be used for top class opening preparation In the above example searched for only games played by Garry Kasparov with the White pieces with players over 2600 in that way the Opening Explorer pane can give you the repertoire of a particular player in any position When you see end as a move this indicates one of the games ended at this point Local source Play Move Games Score Rating Performance Year 2 MF 41106 950 Zo 2536 2578 2012 66 6 2 Bc4 1296 56 3 2321 2563 2012 AA A 2 Mes 782 a eo 2493 2328 2012 CH 592 48 5 2502 2511 2012 2 04 1
94. ou a live opening repertoire tree of your games This is a powerful way to view your games the positions and moves you have played If you have been using another chess software application we recommend you save your games in PGN format that is the Portable Game Notation that allows you to transfer your games in a portable way similar to what PDF documents are to documents You can open the PGN of your games in HIARCS Chess Explorer or copy and paste all the games into a new PGN database within HIARCS Chess Explorer by using the copy and paste games function If you don t already have a database of your games in PGN format you can set this up as follows 1 Create a new database and name it for example MyGames 2 If you have the game entered in a different chess software application you can copy and paste it into the MyGames database tab 3 Enter your games into the Game Notation and save each game into the MyGames database As you do this you will see the Opening Explorer is automatically building an opening repertoire tree from the games You can then use Analysis Explorer to analyse your games and update your games database with annotations and variations as appropriate You can also store your games in other databases as appropriate HIARCS Chess Explorer can open multiple databases simultaneously so you can easily handle more than one databases at the same time Entering and annotating games To enter a game first decide on the d
95. ou to redo the last operation which was undone by the Undo command above There is no limit on the number of Redo commands performed Insert Best move space Null move Start comment Ctrl Shift H Comment Ctrl 4M This submenu item allows you to insert into the game notation in a number of ways using the nested menu items e Best mow this option will insert the best move as suggested by the current analysing engine if one is running and change the position to after that move was played and the engine will begin analysing this new position Depending on the context of the move to the game notation the following action is performed o Ifthe move is at the end of the current variation the move is added to the game notation o If the move is new and different to that played in the game notation a new variation will be started in the game notation with the move inserted o If the move is the next move in the game notation no new move is inserted but the position changes to that after the move was played o Please note if you want to insert the whole line currently being analysed by the current engine simply click on the score depth text value and the whole line will be added as a variation with the evaluation and depth In this case the engine will continue to analyse the current position e Null move this menu item makes a null move in the current position A null move is basically making no move therefore giving up the right to move
96. our to be selected Play realism HIARCS chess engines use new play realism capabilities which give a much more realistic human like feel to the play of the weaker set Elo opponents in the HIARCS chess engine In particular it tries to produce the same sorts of mistakes and common moves that weaker players are prone to This enables you to get genuinely useful practice against our handicap opponents as they will challenge you very much like a human player of that strength while making similar mistakes to players of that strength In addition it matches the opening book moves to the playing strength and even forgets its book moves or mixes up move orders to simulate real play Coach warnings Coach warning Mistake made While playing a game against the computer when the coach option is enabled the coach will warn you if the it thinks one of your moves is a mistake You will then see the following dialog The coach thinks your move is a mistake Do you want to take it back Show refutation Takeback You can then have the coach show you the refutation by clicking the Show refutation button The refuting move will then be demonstrated on the board You have two options you can Ignore the coach and continue playing or accept the coach advice and takeback the move and consider your previous move again Coach warning Very good move available As well as pointing out mistakes the coach can spot when you have missed a very good move when it wi
97. plorer Help Context help Fi About HIARCS Chess Explorer Check for updates On most dialogs within the GUI you can access context sensitive help by pressing F1 or choosing the Help gt Context help This will then bring up a window which will display the help for the window or dialog in focus Open database of games To open a PGN database you can click the open database a toolbar icon or choose the File gt Open menu item to locate and open a PGN database Please see the Open database section for details on how to locate a PGN database file to open If your database is in a non standard format for example CBF CBH you should first convert the database to PGN format using the software which produced the non standard format Making moves To move a piece simply move the mouse pointer over the square of the piece you wish move click the left mouse button to select the piece You can then hold the mouse button down and drag the piece to the destination square and let go to make the move When Guess move Preferences gt Board tab is off you can select the source square with a click release of the left mouse button and then select the destination square However we believe most people will prefer to use the much faster Guess move approach which is on by default You can read about more advanced move entry capabilities in the Game Board section Guess move If you have guess move enabled you will notice as you move the mouse over a
98. plorer dialog and search for the player you are interested in Configuring the program You can configure HIARCS Explorer using the Preferences dialog This can be accessed by clicking the a F preferences gt toolbar icon or from the Edit gt Preferences menu item gt F ai Add a new chess engine You can add additional UCI chess engines to HIARCS Chess Explorer using the Preferences gt Engine tab Copy and paste game or positions You can copy and paste Games and Positions between chess software using the Copy and Paste submenus of the Edit menu To copy a game in the current tab use the Edit gt Copy gt Game_menu item the game is then copied to the clipboard If you are copying from another chess software application please consult the manual help for that application on how to copy a game in PGN format To paste a game from the clipboard use the Edit gt Paste gt Game menu item A position can be copied and pasted in the same way using the Edit gt Copy gt Position and Edit gt Paste gt Position menu items Positions are copied in FEN format For more details please see the Edit menu section Merge game One of the unique and powerful features of HIARCS Chess Explorer is the Merge game feature You can access Merge game from the Edit gt Paste gt Merge with current game menu item This feature allows you to paste a game from the clipboard into the current game merging the two games together This enables you to a
99. prising or clearly better than alternatives e apoor move Basically a mistake that should not of been played e an outstanding move Such moves are usually very hard to find and clearly superior to other moves e a very bad mistake A blunder which normally loses material overlooks a checkmate or some other bad outcome e an interesting move but perhaps not the best move available this can also be an enterprising move which deserves attention Sometimes is a temporary state for a move as with more practice its symbol can change e a dubious move probably objectively poor but could be hard to refute so has more merit than moves e only move all other moves are grossly inferior Please note setting a move symbol replaces any existing symbol present You can also enter the symbols using the keyboard for example enters enters etc You can remove the symbols by choosing the Remove symbols menu item on the Move context menu Add comment Add move symbol Add evaluation symbol Add other symbol Remove symbols Remove previous moves Remove next moves Evaluation symbols EA Add comment q Add move symbol j Add evaluation symbol R Add other symbol i 7 Remove previous moves Remove next moves Des Possible evaluation symbols and their description Equality a position with equal chances eo Unclear a position where it is unclear who if anyone has an advantage Sligh
100. rent Game or a selection of Games Copying the current Position to the clipboard allows you to paste the position into another tab or into another chess program which supports pasting positions The Position is copied in FEN format Copying the Game to the clipboard allows you to paste the game into another database tab or into another chess program which supports pasting a game The game is copied in PGN format Copying Games is a powerful and easy way to copy a selection of games to another database tab in the GUI You do need at least one other database open to use the Copy Games function You can read more about this function in the Copy games section Paste Position Ctrl Shift Game Ctrl V Merge with current game This submenu allows you to paste a Position or a Game from the clipboard into the current tab This enables you to copy positions or games from other programs or between tabs inside HIARCS Chess Explorer The Merge with current game menu option enables you to merge a game with the current game in the Game Notation pane This is a very powerful analysis feature you can read more about this unique analysis feature in the Merge game section Undo This option allows you to undo the last operation you performed in this tab on the current game This is very useful to reverse mistakes made in Game Notation There is no limit to the number of undo operations you can perform since the game was loaded Redo This option allows y
101. s all the options of the engine in alphabetical order Engine options which are read only are displayed greyed out for example Book Positions Options that are changed from the default values are displayed in bold for example Book Mode has been set to Surprise Some engines like HIARCS give About information which is available by clicking the question mark icon If you are happy for the engine to use the common hash settings in the Engines tab then check the Use common hash settings box If that is unchecked you will be able to set the hash in the engine options specifically for this engine Some options are action buttons these are grey blank when the engine is not currently loaded when the engine is running the action buttons are enabled Advanced Preferences Preferences y _ _ __ _ Board Engines Advanced Appearance Language Enalish Piece format Figurine Game font MS Shell Dig 2 16 pt Databases Autosave every 10 min Overwrite existing ECO codes Online sources Use Hiarcs server to retrieve opening and endgame information Book license pe ee ee a a ee ee et Troubleshooting _ Log engine output to file in current session sch The Advanced tab of the Preferences dialog handles miscellaneous configuration settings in the following areas Appearance You can set the language used by HIARCS Chess Explorer You should not normally need to use this as the def
102. secondary concern mainly used as a repository to store and retrieve games We believe this approach is not as powerful as the database centric paradigm that HIARCS Chess Explorer uses We will explore this in more detail below HIARCS Chess Explorer uses a database first approach this means you open the database you are interested in first and then you can view modify delete or add games to it Secondly HIARCS Chess Explorer is a multi database program that means you can open view manipulate and analyse games from multiple databases simultaneously These two facets of database first and multi database capabilities enable much more powerful solutions than a single game single database approach more normally used Using a database first and multi database approach gives some genuine advantages over the traditional approach e Choosing a database first sets the context for the game and leverages other related information in a database to make the entry analysis or vewing of a game more informative e The game can draw on information from the other games already in the database in a number of ways o Compare in real time the current game to other games played in the database o Show what other players have played before in the same position and how they faired statistically Enable real time access to other games which have encountered the same position to see how those games progressed e Manage your games better by using databases not
103. sis Explorer pane here is an example Lines 1 Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC v e Endgame database Black wins in 38 moves after 77 Rc4 more This tells you that with best play in the current position Black can win in 38 moves starting with the move 77 Rc4 To see all the move options in the current position and their evaluations click the more text and then the Online tablebase results dialog will be displayed Play game mode t Playing game HIARCS Chess Explorer File Edit View Game Play Search Help b CTIE Top Games Playing game EJ 4 08 4 59 Mark Uniacke 1407 Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC 1600 20 12 06 05 B53 Sicilian Defence 1 e4 ch A G d6 3 d4 Uc7 4 203 cxd4 D da f6 You can launch play game mode from the play game ah toolbar icon or the Play gt New game menu item In play game mode you play a game against the computer In this mode the access to many features which are not applicable to this mode are prevented Instead you have access to operations specific to game play e g Resign Offer draw etc etc While playing the game you can access the features via the menus or the play icons which allow you control over the game moves and assistance During play mode if you have Guess move enabled you will have assistance in finding the best move The quality of moves are highlighted using colour coded square highlights These can be a great learning aid and help the playing realise earlier when a mo
104. square of a piece you can move the best expected destination square is highlighted You can select that recommended move simply by clicking the mouse button and releasing it Alternatively with the mouse pointer over a piece if you then click the right mouse button guess move will highlight what it thinks is the next best destination square for the piece highlighted Repeatedly pressing the right mouse button will cycle through the moves in order of quality Click and release the left mouse button to select the currently highlighted guess move Also if you move the mouse pointer over a square which a piece can move to you will see the best source square for that move highlighted If you want to select that move simply click and release the left mouse button Playing games against the computer HIARCS Chess Explorer has a special mode for playing games against the computer it az dl You can access this mode by clicking the Play game a toolbar icon or from the Play gt New game menu item To read more about how to start a game against the computer and configure the type of game you wish to play please read the Play game section Play Realism HIARCS chess engines use new play realism capabilities which give a much more realistic human like feel to the play of the weaker set Elo opponents in the HIARCS chess engine In particular it tries to produce the same sorts of mistakes and common moves that weaker players are prone to This
105. stepping through a game using the Ctrl right arrow key HIARCS Chess Explorer will give you a choice when you reach a position which has more than one move option ie where there a variations The Select move dialog shows the move choices with the main continuation shown in bold You can select the next move using the mouse using the keyboard letter for the variation here A B or C or using the arrow keys up or down to change the choice and the right arrow or enter key to select the move Promote to When a pawn reaches the eighth rank you will see the Promote to dialog displayed Promote to Cancel Please select the piece you wish to promote the pawn to lf you want to cancel the promotion move and take it back click Cancel Tablebase results When you reach an endgame position and HIARCS Chess Explorer has displayed in the Analysis Explorer an endgame database result for example as follows Lines Deen HIARCS 14 WESC e Endgame database Black wins in 38 moves after 77 Rc4 more you can choose to see more in order to view all the move options in the current position and their outcomes You will then be presented with the Online tablebase results dialog here is an example Online tablebase results E co Rc Black wins in 38 moves Rg Black wins in 40 moves Hep Black wins in 44 moves Kes Black wins in 50 moves n Hi Black wins in 51 moves co Rec7 Black wins in 51 moves _ HCH Black wins in
106. t advantage for White Slight advantage for Black Clear Advantage for White Clear Advantage for Black Decisive advantage for White Decisive advantage for Black With compensation an unclear position usually where the side down in material has compensation for the material Please note setting an evaluation symbol will replace any existing evaluation symbol present You can also enter the symbols using the keyboard for example enters enters o enters etc You can remove the symbols by choosing the Remove symbols menu item on the Move context menu Add comment Add move symbol Add evaluation symbol Add other symbol Remove symbols Remove previous Moves Remove next moves Other symbols O Better was Add comment R Add move symbol l weak point Add evaluation symbol endgame Add other symbol A s bishops of opposite color Remove previous Moves bishops of the same color Remove next moves Severe time control pressure Other symbols which can be added to the game notation moves This in turn means Zugzwang Idea Better was Novelty a new move not seen in general practice of this position before weak point endgame bishops of opposite colour bishops of the same colour severe time control pressure You can remove the symbols by choosing the Remove symbols menu item on the Move context menu Add comment Add move symbol Add evaluation symbol Add other symbol
107. t diagrams at any point in the game notation and the diagrams will be printed at that point in the game print out Diagrams will include algebraic coordinates if you are using them in the on screen display You can even print multiple games using the File gt Print gt Games from filter menu_item You should use this option with caution since it can print many games You will be warned if you try to print 20 or more games as this will use a lot of paper Setting a language HIARCS Chess Explorer will use the default language of your operating system If you want to use a different language you can choose the language in the Preferences gt Advanced tab There you can set the language to English UK English US French German Italian Polish Russian and Spanish User Interface The following sections explain the HIARCS Chess Explorer User Interface its Main_window display panes menus icons and dialogs They form the basis of the context sensitive help Main Window AnnotatedGames HIARCS Chess Explorer DER File Edit View Game Play Search Help 32002 0000090 OLS AnnotatedGames E Robson Ray 2569 Fedorowicz John P 2456 1 0 38th World Open Valley Forge PA 3 2010 07 02 B48 Sicilian Taimanov variation 1 e4 c5 2 893 06 3 d4 cxd4 4 2xd4 e6 5 203 dc 6 2e3 a6 7 0d2 ofA 2 f hS a A N 2e5 10 94 E 11 h4 b4 12 23 Game Notation 13 2b7 14 95 hxg5 15 hxg5 xh1 16 xh1 fd has been tested a few tim
108. t the new database name Print Current game Ctrl P Games from filter Print the current game or all the games in the filter to the printer You will see a print options dialog where you can select various parameters including saving the print game s to a file Close Close the current in focus tab Please note when closing a database tab containing a very large database it takes time to save if changes have been made to that database Quit Quit HIARCS Chess Explorer this will close all currently open tabs You will be asked to save or discard any modified games Please note for very large databases which need to be saved it can take some time to save all the databases Edit menu The Edit menu allows you to edit various aspects of the program Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations are also defined on the menu you can use the keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function directly from the keyboard You can also see shortcut icons for some menu items on the menu as a guide that there is a shortcut toolbar icon for the option Set up position Ctrl Shift s Copy b Paste Undo Ctrl z Redo ctrl Y Insert t Remove Promote variation Cl 0 Preferences Set up position This allows you to edit the current position or set up a new position lt opens the Set up position dialog Copy Position Ctrl shift C Game ctrl 0 Games This submenu allows you to copy the current Position shown the cur
109. t will be added as the new main line and remove the old line Please note that you can use Undo Redo command to undo mistakes so even if you have added modified or removed many items in the game notation you can always reverse these changes When Guess move Preferences gt Board tab is off you can select the source square with a click release of the left mouse button and then select the destination square However we believe most people will prefer to use the much faster Guess move approach which is on by default Guess moves With the Guess move feature enabled when the cursor goes over a piece the piece will highlight and the suggested best destination square for the piece will be highlighted You can select the guess move simply by clicking the left mouse button and releasing it With the mouse pointer over a piece if you then click the right mouse button and Guess move will highlight what it thinks is the next best destination square for the piece highlighted Repeatedly pressing the right mouse button will cycle through the moves in order of quality When placing the cursor over a square on the board Guess move will highlight the suggested best move to that square Again clicking the right mouse button will show the next best move to the destination square with each click cycling through the moves in order of quality You can select the currently highlighted guess move at any time simply by clicking the left mouse button and releasing
110. t you may of missed a very strong move View played games This menu item will open the PlayedGames PGN database in a separate database tab so you can view games you have already played against the computer View rated users This menu item will open the Rated users dialog where you can view the current chess ratings of players who have played games in HIARCS Chess Explorer Search menu The Search menu allows you to perform searches on games in databases Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations are also defined on the menu you can use the keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function directly from the keyboard You can also see shortcut icons for some menu items on the menu as a guide that there is a shortcut toolbar icon for the option Quick search ctrl F A Header Ctrl Shift H Position Ctrl Shift F Reset filter Ctrl A Reverse filter Ctrl Shitt kh Quick search This menu item will open the Game Explorer if necessary and give focus to the Quick search element of the Game Explorer so you can enter quick search terms to find games For details on what the Quick search field can do please refer to the Quick search section Header This menu item will open the Header Search dialog so you can specify a search filter of the game header The searching and filtering capabilities of the program are very powerful you can read more in the Searching and filtering section Position This menu item will open the
111. te Modified z Mark Uniacke e PlayedGames pgn GRE pan File 06 07 2012 03 26 03 F AnnotatedGames pgn LEME oon File 28 04 2012 05 17 32 68 TopGames pgn 24 2 MB pon File 27 04 2012 19 23 42 ER Fischer Spassky pgn 38 KB pan File 11 08 2011 01 43 06 ee 8 Kasparov Karpov pgn 122 KB pan Pie 11 08 2011 01 23 20 File name AnnotatedGames pan Files of type PGN databases pgn wi Accessed by clicking the open database ay shortcut icon The dialog is also accessed from the File gt Open menu item It enables you to open a PGN database Click the PGN database you wish to load and click Open alternatively you can double click the PGN database file name to open it This dialog will open the last folder you opened a database from Initially it will show you the Databases folder which contains all the databases delivered in the HIARCS Chess Explorer package You can easily browse to another folder if you wish to find a PGN database not in the HIARCS Chess Databases folder When you first open a database it will automatically open the Game Explorer pane so you can view the games in the database Please note for very large databases it can take some time to load all the games and build the required views of the data Set up position w Setup position Side to move Move FEN rnbgkbnr Pppppppp 3 3 8 S PPPPPPPP RANBQKBNR w KQkq 0 1 V Accessed by clicking the set up position A shortcut icon The dialog is also acc
112. the opposite side will then be next to play A null move is illegal in chess play but is very useful in analysis for example you may play a null move in a variation to illustrate what would happen if the side to play does nothing thereby showing possible threats of the opponent Please note a null move can also be played on the chess board simply by moving the king of the side to play onto the opponents king e Start Comment this allows you to insert a text comment before the first move of the game It will bring up an Edit comment dialog e Comment this allows you to insert a text comment at the current move in the game notation It will bring up an Edit comment dialog You can also add diagram in the Edit comment dialog Please note there are many other context specific items like move evaluation and other symbols which can be inserted by right clicking your mouse on a particular move in the Game notation Remove Current variation All comments All variations All symbals Everything except main line This submenu item allows you to remove from the game notation many different aspects using the submenu items e Current variation this option allows you to remove the current variation shown in the game notation It has no effect on the main line of the game it only affects variations All comments this option will remove all the comments from the game notation All variations this option will remove all variations from the
113. v games when Grunfeld was played e Kasparov Karpov find all Karpov Kasparov games e Kasparov Karpov find all Karpov Kasparov games where Kasparov was white e Kasparov Site London find all games played by Kasparov in London e Kasparov Karpov Site London 1 0 0 1 1 2 find all decisive games between Kasparov and Karpov played in London e Kasparov Karpov 1 2 find all games decisive games between Kasparov and Karpov Zvj Dre find all games with White starting Zy and Black starting Dre matches Zyaginsev v Dreev Opening Explorer Can be toggle accessed by clicking the Opening Explorer Y shortcut icon or from the View gt Opening Explorer menu item Move Games Score Rating Performance Year Play 6 Be3 a be Ski 2543 2579 2012 Soha dn 6 Be2 3449 32 7 2022 2550 2012 16 6 6 Bg5 2837 94 A 2519 2558 2012 16 6 6 Bc41 1340 49 3 2500 2517 2012 6 74 1267 24 0 2506 2541 2012 8 2 Ehe 004 J9 2 2052 2504 2012 8 3 DO 645 31 2 2519 2939 2012 4 1 GK 317 92 0 2520 Ke 2012 4 1 ph 376 94 1 2550 2569 2012 8 3 6 Bd3 GA 94 5 2511 25946 2010 6 Rgi 63 99 5 2529 2591 2011 6 0T3 ER 68 53 2508 2646 2012 6 0e2 13 42 3 2495 2472 2011 6 a 50 0 2590 foe 2011 6 Nb3 2 50 0 2485 2920 2006 Source Local opening book sl Opening Explorer is the world s first multi source real time chess tree with live updates and automatic game filtering Opening Explorer presents for the current position a stat
114. ve is perhaps not as good as initially thought Of course this can be turned off in the Preferences gt Board tab Here is an example of the coaching move highlights Playing game HIARCS Chess Explorer File Edit View Game Play Search Help 0 40 31 U4 0 TopGames E AnnotatedGames E Kasparov Karpov E PlayedGames E Playing game E 400 4 59 Mark Uniacke 1483 Deep HIAROS 14 WOSC 2000 201 0427 B90 Sicilian Najdorf 1 e4 c5 2 0143 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 gt xd4 To DC ab In addition the coach if enabled will watch your play and if it sees you make a mistake or miss a puzzle like strong move then it will alert you to this with a coach warning dialog and give you the opportunity to take back your move or discover the refutation Short cut toolbar icons Ina normal database tab you will see the following shortcut icons in the toolbar 7220009 E LEELOO EA In play game mode the tool bar has the following shortcut icons in the toolbar The toolbar icons are made up of the following icon sets click the set to find out more about them e Database icons e Game icons e View Icons E Play icons Database icons 22006 These database shortcut icons give you quick access to common operations on a database bl Open a database in a new tab Show Game Explorer for current database Show Player Explorer for current database Search database for games Load prev
115. wood marble stone slate and solid colours You can see below some of the piece and texture combinations gt Cto pre e WW SD ps SIS mk co wl nE E Hei S E E Es nA Ml i Sa Be SS SS SS AR Gei e So GE L Any changes you make to the Chess set or Board style will be reflected in the sample chess board in the Board tab This enables you to see what the combination of boards and chess sets look like before you decide on your preference You can also change the highlight colours for the highlighted moves by clicking on the highlight colours you will get a colour palette to set your preferred colour You can also adjust the presentation of coordinates around the board This setting will also affect printed diagrams A frame around each square on the board can also be set on if you prefer the look The Guess move provides automatic intelligent guess moves for pieces during game entry and guidance during game play This can be a very powerful aid but if you prefer not to receive this assistance you can turn off the move guesses Finally the last engine move can be highlighted although we have left this off by default as the move animation given by HIARCS Chess Explorer highlights the last move of an engine well Clicking the Apply button will apply the current settings but keeps the dialog open Clicking the Cancel button will cancel any changes since the last apply and exit the dialog Finally click the O
116. y default HIARCS Chess Explorer will contact the HIARCS Chess Server HCS to retrieve information about openings and endgames which are displayed by Opening Explorer and Analysis Explorer as appropriate If you want stop access to the HIARCS Chess Server this option can be unchecked The book license field allows HIARCS Opening Book subscribers to access additional content in the Opening Explorer A valid book license will enable access to powerful new opening books on the HIARCS Chess Server For security reasons actual licenses are never displayed and are always encrypted Troubleshooting In the unlikely event you need to troubleshoot an engine added to HIARCS Chess Explorer you can set this option An engine log file will then be generated in the HIARCS Chess Explorer folder with details of the communication between the GUI and engine This option will only be applied until you exit HIARCS Chess Explorer when the option is unset This option should only be set by advanced users and only for troubleshooting an engine as it will affect the performance of any engine used Clicking the Apply button will apply the current settings but keeps the dialog open Clicking the Cancel button will cancel any changes since the last apply and exit the dialog Finally click the OK button to apply the current settings and exit the dialog back to the main display Select move Moves A 26 Qe1 B 26 b4 CH 26 0b5 When

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