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DeepFritz7
RRP
£74.99/$99
Upgrade from Deep Fritz £45/£70
DeepFritz7
is the multi-processor version of Fritz7. The strongest program
produced by ChessBase won the very strong CSVN computer chess
tournament in Leiden 2002. Deep Fritz 7 will run in computers
with between one and eight processors. On a dual system the
increase in speed is around 85% compared to a single processor
of equivalent speed. But even on a single processor system the
playing strength is greater than that of the regular Fritz7.
The “Deep” version has been improved and enhanced, it has more
positional understanding and additional endgame knowledge. This
has been achieved without diminishing the program’s legendary
tactical power. Deep Fritz 7 comes with the full Fritz7 interface
and gives you full access to the ChessBase chess server playchess.com
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Fritz
7
RRP
£39.95 / $49.50
More
than just the best and most popular chess program. Fritz 7 is
the key to a new world of chess. Fritz 7 connects you with chess
enthusiasts in New York, London, Bombay, Sydney, or with your
pal down the street. Visit the Fritz server, where every day
is chess club day. All over the world. From morning to evening,
or in the middle of the night. With Fritz 7 and a normal Internet
connection you are exactly two clicks away.
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The
program HIARCS, written by Mark Uniacke of England, has been
one of the world’s top programs ever since it won the microcomputer
world chess championship in 1993. HIARCS stands for "Higher
Intelligence Auto Response Chess System". And indeed
the distinguishing feature is that the author, like no other,
uses a maximum of chess knowledge to increase the playing
strength of his program. The new version of HIARCS has been
improved and enhanced in a number of areas, especially in
its search algorithms and the implementation of concrete chess
knowledge. The search tree has been further optimised and
results in an increase in search depth of up to three ply
in the middle game. The maximum search depth is now 62 ply!
This leads to substantially increased tactical power while
at the same time the program maintains its active positional
playing style. Chess knowledge has always been the program’s
main strength. The improved search algorithms made it possible
to implement even more advanced positional functions, especially
in the areas of "typical pawn structures" and "dynamic
evaluation of the centre". HIARCS 8 evaluates important
factors like weak squares, king’s safety, piece exchanges,
initiative and king attack much more reliably than the predecessor
versions.
System
requirements:
Windows 95/NT4.0 or higher/98/ME/2000/XP, Pentium 200 MHz or
compatible,32 MB RAM,1 MB graphics card,sound card,CD ROM drive,
mouse keyboard
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