HIARCS

 Higher Intelligence Auto Response Chess System. Written by Mark Uniacke of England, HIARCS was one of the world’s strongest microcomputer chess programs created in 1980. In 1991 it won the world amateur microcomputer championship title at Vancouver and in 1993 it succeeded with the title of microcomputer world chess champion. In April, 1997 it defeated IM Deen Hegott 4:2 in a 6 game match. In 2005 it drew with Evgeny Bareev 4-4 but defeated Jan Gustafson, Sergei Volkov and Piotr Bobras.  In 2007 the program won the 17th IPCCC Paderborn. Garry Kasparov, said “HIARCS is much better positionally than Deep Blue”. HIARCS (Pocket Fritz 4 powered by HIARCS) is the only handheld chess program in the world which has won Grandmaster tournaments. In August 2009 it won the 2009 Mescosur Cup in Buenos Aires, scoring an incredible undefeated 9½/10 points (9 wins, one draw) and a performance of 2938 Elo. The chess software engine is available for Pocket PC, Palm, Apple iPhone & iPod Touch, PDAs, PC and Macintosh computers