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sangahm wrote:Just bought the game and I really like it!
I did notice that it shares some of the GUI design of Glaurung. Would it be possible to bring over the XBoard piece set too, as that one is my favorite?
Technically adding new piece sets is extremely trivial. I think the reason Mark chose to delete the XBoard piece set was that he was worried about copyright issues, and feared that it was not allowed to use them in a non-free program.
By the way, here is the new default piece set in Glaurung. The new version, which uses Stockfish as the internal chess engine, will probably be available within a month or two.
It gives an excellent entertainment and educational value, especially if you are on a flight or with kids on a road trip. I definitely prefer my kids playing chess over playing violent video games any day.
On the scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 9.5. Well done!
Susan Polger
Harvey Williamson wrote:It gives an excellent entertainment and educational value, especially if you are on a flight or with kids on a road trip. I definitely prefer my kids playing chess over playing violent video games any day.
On the scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 9.5. Well done!
Susan Polger
She probably would give 10/10 if her kids could play against each other on that road trip with their own ipods's.
IA wrote:Hello Harvey, meet on the screen the Kn/s de Hiarcs in iPhone? It´s to say, 11.8 Kn/s …..
Has that forces ELO Hiarcs in the iPhone of 1 Generation, 2 Generation and 3 Generation?
The screen shot that showed 11.8 kN/s wasn't from Hiarcs, but from a recent development version of iPhone Glaurung, using Stockfish as the chess engine. I think the speed of Hiarcs is probably similar, but I am not sure.
The hardware was an iPhone 3G, i.e. last year's version.
Dark Horse wrote:any plans to port HIARCS to Android ?
a lot of the new smart phones (including the HTCs) are using Android..
Most current chess programs are written in the C or C++ programming language, which (unless I have missed something) are not supported on the Android platform. Android applications must be written in Java. Translating a C/C++ chess program to Java is, unfortunately, a lot of work.
Porting to the iPhone is much easier. I didn't have to change a single line in my own program (in C++); I just compiled my old source code with the iPhone OS compiler, and everything just worked. It's a one-minute job, while porting to Android would probably take months.
A quick thanks! I've been using Hiarcs on the iphone 3gs for the last few days and love it! (I'm using it against the Headbangers now hehe).
Very nice play, great interface, a lot of fun.
I think Hiarcs has the PDA market cornered and I congratulate Mark on his achievments.I have being waiting since Rybka was released for a PPC version but have gradually come to realize that Vas either does not care or knows that Rybka cant be miniturised to fit on the smaller limitations of the mobile platform.The 32 bit limits of PDA's combined with that Rybka has a huge .exe with bit-board code all add up to a mediocre possible performance.
I just wish Vas would state that these are the real reasons why there will not be a PDA version so that we all can give up dreaming and be happy with Hiarcs as #1.
A year on and I am still impressed with Hiarcs 12.1 engine.Even if PF4 with Hiarcs 13 is only 25 elo stronger that would be great.
