Hiarcs Mac Chess Explorer

I have seen a you tube video of this chess program for the mac and it looks really nice...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtBdRjtrBDU

I want to use it to enter my games and analyse them and play through some games of great players.  I would like to study my openings as well. Does anyone have experience with this mac chess program?

I have it and like it a lot. I think you will like it. It has much of the same origins as the free program ChessX. I post the most recent builds of ChessX for the Macintosh ( and occasionally windows ) to www.box.com/chessx. The official chessX site is http://chessx.sourceforge.net.  In some ways they are very similar programs. Hiarcs has a very nice opening explorer, and you can play games against it. ChessX is more of just a PGN database program. I suggest trying ChessX and then if you want to pay for HIARCS Chess Explorer go ahead.

The Opening Explorer in HIARCS will be invaluable in studying your openings. If you download ChessX you will also want to download Stockfish and install it into ChessX so you can analyze positions. Both ChessX and HIARCS are great for playing over games and studying them.

Thanks James, I tried ChessX and it is ok to enter games but I did not see a book, it says opening tree but I don't see any moves. Also is the board meant to shake when I enter a move?

Can ChessX analyse my games? It is a nice program especially for free, keep up the good work, but it does not seem to have the features I need for playing chess and analysing my games. Also I would like a good opening book to refer to.

ChessX is interesting but I think I am going to need to consider Hiarcs Chess Explorer. In the video it seemed to have all the things I want that ChessX is lacking.

ChessX analyses positions ( you need to install an engine ) but not yet complete games.

ChessX doesn't have a book feature. You can use the current filter as an opening tree ( You need to enable the filter ) , but I agree its not the same. HIARCS has an extremely nice opening book.

The board doesn't shake. At least for me. Not sure what you are seeing there. It does try to guess your move and make the move easier to make. This is a shared feature with HIARCS.

ChessX does not allow you to play games against it.

HIARCS will have the features you want. It is a nice program. I like HIARCS better than Chessbase in fact. I got tired of Chessbase crashing so often. I have never had HIARCS crash once.

morphy is a shill for Hiarcs