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"22. Nf3!"

I feel pleased for seeing a computer classify this move as very good, congrats!

"[Theoretical move is 4. Nf3!]"

I would write "Book move" or "Best move" in place of "Theoretical move".

" Stockfish: +5.14/23 [16... c4 Stockfish: -0.62/23 17. Bc2 Qc7 18. Nf3 g6 19. Kh2 Bc5 20. Rh1 Qg7 21. Kg1 Rf7 22. Rh4 Rcf8 23. Rf1 b5 24. Kh2 a5 25. Qe1 Bb6 26. Qd2 Bc6 27. Qe1 Bc7 28. Rf4 Qh6 29. Kg1]" Big sequences in computer analysis lines are hardly useful. There could be an option t...

"[15. ef6 Stockfish: +0.53/19 15... Bf6"

It becomes redundant to read the engine name Stockfish at every annotation. It could go at the end like: "Annotated by Stockfish [version number]".

"White loses 0.21 pawn per move" This is an important statistic to measure strength of play (the average deviation of moves from computer recommendation). Would be nice to have a field where this statistic can be inserted (manually or automatically) to classify games in a player's games co...

Hiarcs has so good online and local Nalimov compatibility that I can't see the advantage of trying to connect Syzygy... See here, Hiarcs announced mate in 196...

"A tablebase win announced by Hiarcs against Maverick"

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10 minutes is blitz, enough to put an human player 200 points below the Elo rating. Using anti-computer strategy or not don't make much of a difference nowadays.

Someone already mentioned the rating points of an user expressed in qualitative scale from: "You barely know how to move the chess pieces" to "You should be ashamed of being a computer cheater"?

Yes, and don't forget you need ChessBase to sort a games database to use in Fritz, without it any games collection just becomes a mess after some time.

Moving from Mac to Windows to use ChessBase, no, absolutely not. When changing operative system one lose a lot of time and money. I am sure you are able to come out with a better investment for your time and money. I have been using almost everything that exists for chess in Mac and Windows since 19...

Playing with the lowest rating: [Event "1 11 rated"] [Site "Portugal"] [Date "2014.07.01"] [Round "?"] [White "martinus"] [Black "HIARCS 14 WCSC"] [Result "1-0"] [BlackElo "750"] [ECO "C20"] [TimeControl "...

You can set Hiarcs as low as 750. Rating is an average, like humans, computers can do a game stronger than average and play wrong in the next game. Usually I find the ratings accurate, anyway I almost never play long standard games. Maybe you want to show the game? Here goes the last one I played: [...

Time you attribute to an human change his/her force greatly. Time you attribute to a computer change its force slightly. So... If you play at 1800 and you set the computer to 1800, you will probably lose in a very fast game and you will probably win in a very long time game. Also, Hiarcs will play f...

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Nowadays chess computers play and analyse so much above human level that I have reasons to presume that a chess book made of "theory" from human games is not much more than an handicap to the program. Humans play the opening for "ideology" and only after that for the best move. C...