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Hiarcs or Shredder?
Or maybe even Rybka? Those are the top 3 names and every year the different developers try and upgrade with +30 or so rating on the top chess engine when they do battle at the various chess engine tournaments. As it stands at this time of writing Shredder 10 is trying to pip Hiarcs 10. Rybka currently tops both Hiarcs 10 and Shredder 9. Toga II and Fruit can also compete well (sometimes scoring higher). The problem is that Rybka, Toga II and Fruit are engines. Hiarcs 10 and Shredder 10 are engines but are both packaged with chessbase software which costs $30 for the latest edition. So for $20 extra you are getting the engines and the chess software. If you want the top of the line chess engine then Rybka is probably where you want to go if you are willing to shell out an experimental $70 for it. Shredder 10 is being tested at the moment so right now the #2 place goes to this engine, Hiarcs 10. You are going to get one of the most powerful chess engines in the world if you purchase this. At #2 it can only drop 3 places if the other 3 engines can beat it. Hiarcs 10 is also the same price as Shredder 10. Dont go here though if you are just trying to improve your game. Something like Deep Fritz 8 can be bought now for $20 if you get the "Deep Fritz: Grand Master Deluxe" software package. That has the Deep Fritz 8 chess software package that can load up all the top engines if you have them. Fritz 9 is more expensive with an updated chess software package and can load the new engines too. You don't really need to spend all this much to have a good engine (the $20 set above is beyond 99% of us) but at the same time if you can get Hiarcs 10 then use it because it is powerful.

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Unique playing style
Hiarcs 10 runs on the identical GUI to other ChessBase engines such as Fritz 9 and the new Shredder 10. As such it has all the tools a serious chess player can want - a million game database, training and analysis modes, a year's subscription to Playchess, etc. <
>I own both Fritz 9 and Hiarcs 10 and thouroghly recommend both. Fritz and Hiarcs have long been rivals. In playing strength Fritz has usually been slightly stronger (at least in games against other engines.) However,strength (particularly against other computers) is not the only consideration. The top 5 engines are certainly a match for the world's top grandmasters, and what an owner wants is a program that is useful for analysis. What Hiarcs offers is its own unique playing style. It is often said that Hiarcs is the most "human-like" computer opponent. To my mind no computer really plays like a human but I can understand what the many Hiarcs fans mean. Hiarcs has a very individual style and is less material-oriented than many programs, often ignoring the gain of a pawn, for example, in favour of the initiative. <
>In keeping with this style of play the program comes with an opening book that is decidedly quirky, with all sorts of interesting lines of play. <
>Hiarcs fans will be delighted with this version of the program and any serious chess player will find it a very powerful tool.