Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 19:07:38 12/05/04
Macintosh HIARCS ---------------- The new Mac HIARCS product is nearing completion and we hope to have it available before Christmas. We believe it will be the strongest chess software ever on Macintosh computers and will also have a high quality graphical user interface. We will be updating the website accordingly over the next week to explain the product offering in more detail. Palm HIARCS ----------- The new Palm HIARCS 9.50 update has been placed on the Hiarcs web site. This is a FREE update for all registered customers. This update provides the following improvements: 1) Set Elo levels 1350 Elo to 2000 Elo inclusive catering for players of intermediate strength. Palm HIARCS now offers opponents from absolute beginner (750 Elo) to Strong Grandmaster (2600 Elo). Fast ARM based hardware is required for GM strength. 2) Chess coaching has now been extended to support ALL levels including the weaker instant sparring levels. If you accept the coach's warning and take back your move you can now ask for a move hint using the Move Hint menu item to perhaps see a better alternative move. 3) Move Hints are now almost always available (except in analysis mode where the best variations are displayed instead). So for example if you are playing on one of the weaker instant sparring levels you can now ask for move hints. 4) Some piece graphics have been improved in multiple board views. In particular the knights in both Classic and Challenger piece styles have been enhanced. Thanks to Bryan Whitby for the new Challenger knight. 5) There is now a separate indicator that the board has been flipped. When the board is flipped a pixel above the side to play box in the bottom right hand corner is set. This information is available in all board sizes. 6) A number of other improvements to areas such as clocks, typewriter input, book move display. You can download the update from http://www.hiarcs.com by selecting the Palm Chess download link to visit our download page. Simply install it over the previous version, if you are a registered customer the product will remain fully registered. -elc.
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