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The Match player strength option in the Play dialog has not been removed, it is still present and available to use. I assume you are using the Spanish language version and hence the slightly different phrasing. Hi, It hasn't been removed, I know. What I'm saying is that with the update, the program...

The tests showed about +3 Elo. Now it makes even more sense. If the difference in strength between two engines is very small, it's indeed necessary to conduct a large number of games under strictly defined conditions, which must be the same for both engines. If the new engine is 3 ELO stronger than...

When I use Stockfish 16.1, LC0 or other engines, I can't see / select Ponder and MultiPV. It's a must have. A lot of people would like to see some other / all options. Nonsense. Mark Uniacke himself stated that these attributes are not supposed to be available in the engine settings at all! These p...

Thanks Mark. There's a new option in the engine configuration for H15.3: Limit Book Knowledge. My understanding is that when I play against the engine at a reduced ELO level, e.g. 1400, the book knowledge is already limited in several ways. So what happens if Limit Book Knowledge is selected as wel...

I don't think that Hiarcs (or any engine) will loose on time, because they will make a move before the reaming time will be 0. I have played a lot of games, and sometimes it happens that the chess engine loses on time. Even the Hiarcs engine on lower levels occasionally loses on time. It doesn't ha...

Nobody needs 4k, let alone 8k, chess software demos. You are talking total nonsense. No 8K videos will surely be delivered. I doubt that videos will be made in 4K either because previously they were not recorded in this quality either. In my opinion, videos will be delivered again in Full HD qualit...

HCE tries to estimate how much time is needed to get selected Elo level of quick analysis depending on your hardware. So the time will be different on different machines, but of course, the higher the rating, the longer will the analysis take. I have been using the latest version of Hiarcs Chess Ex...

How are the videos coming along? If you need help editing them, just let me know. 8K videos would be great. Why do you need an 8K resolution video? Most content isn't even native to 4K, and you're already thinking about 4K videos? If I remember correctly, Mark doesn't even have a monitor that suppo...

Because receiving hints during a game is considered cheating, I suppose. We didn't consider it useful, but maybe it is. One drawback is that it uses CPU time so the main engine would not have 100% CPU (although I doubt that would matter for most people, HIARCS would probably easily defeat most of u...

dying_sphynx wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:42 pm I also wrote a blog post about this feature and its usage here: https://64squares.substack.com/p/search ... sitions-in

Very nicely written article! I'm glad that users are actively utilizing the advanced features of Hiarcs Chess Explorer!

That is just a quick and instant evaluation. It is not a proper analysis. HCE tries to estimate how much time is needed to get selected Elo level of quick analysis depending on your hardware. So the time will be different on different machines, but of course, the higher the rating, the longer will ...

Hi, Okay, I hadn't seen it. Ryzen 7 6800H supports up to 16 threads (8 cores = 16 threads), but I'll settle for 8 threads so as not to suffocate the system, haha. Thank you, Horatio. It is always recommended to set the Thread count to the maximum number of physical cores. So in your case it means s...

I would have one suggestion. These questions tend to repeat sometimes here. @Michael, wouldn't it be better if you created a new post summarizing how to install the Stockfish and Komodo chess engines in Hiarcs Chess Explorer, and set this new post on the forum to always appear at the top in the head...

This is also one of the reasons why I don't like Mac at all. It has very poor compatibility. The only compatibility is mainly ensured with software that is directly developed by Apple. All other software, despite all efforts, have difficulties. See Stockfish. Such a simple program that is well-tune...

This is also one of the reasons why I don't like Mac at all. It has very poor compatibility. The only compatibility is mainly ensured with software that is directly developed by Apple. All other software, despite all efforts, have difficulties. See Stockfish. Such a simple program that is well-tuned...