After one year in the making, HCE has finally been updated to its version 1.8, both for Windows and OSX.
The list of novelties is quite long :
Updated local opening book with latest theory up to December 2014
Updated online GM and GM+ (for Deep HCE) books with latest theory
Updates to ECO reference
Confirm loss of locked analysis
Allow synchronised game filter with position and show games functions going forward and backwards through a game
Allow Pasting PGN FEN with no move
Engine match adjudication now optional
Allowing pasting partial games onto position
Player clock times restored after replaying move
Detect last move blunders in game analysis
Default to last book used in game play
Display date online book last updated with count of positions, variations and games
Smarter resignation
Allow hiding moves in training mode
Automatically switch to training mode when loading puzzles/test sets
New tactical test set included sorted by difficulty
Mac OS Yosemite look and feel improvements
Fix to Mac OS Yosemite sleep crash issue
Correction to tablebase dialog to display under promotions outcomes
Improvement to live game presentation
Move and square arrows and highlights marked in game notation with a star
Handling of upgrades to Deep functionality
Many other improvements and bug fixes
The update is free for customers with a previous version.
I wonder if this would make it good news for me.
I simply never had a chance to sort out all my computer and therefore i don't even have a decent computer chess engine in regular use, which i can play against and analyze with when ever i want and from any position i want to, and set up within seconds, like i used to do with hiarcs 6 and 7.
(i know that sometimes someone has explained me what to do. But it always made me problems as i do not like to be on facebook etc and i don't like all other kinds of stuff online and i don't have success in instaling things as they never work, or i am asked questions at the last minute and the downloading or the installation doesn't go through).
http://hiarcs.com/chess-explorer.htm contains updates from v1.0 to 1.8
of course, but no download links - hiarcs@hiarcs.com wrote:
"Inside every HCE version is a Check for update menu item on the Help menu that will direct you to the latest version if one exists. When HCE runs it will contact the server and if a new version exists you will be informed and given a URL link to access it."
Did you made the same experiences? In my opinion customers were formerly informed by email-contact directly of HIARCS-team.
Norbert wrote:"Inside every HCE version is a Check for update menu item on the Help menu that will direct you to the latest version if one exists. When HCE runs it will contact the server and if a new version exists you will be informed and given a URL link to access it."
Did you made the same experiences? In my opinion customers were formerly informed by email-contact directly of HIARCS-team.
I did update this way that is via Help->Check for updates.
It is my preferred TCEC viewer of choice. I like the fact that the interface is clean, simple and easy to use.
"Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions."
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noctiferus wrote:Today new update: !.8c (opening the gui, I was automatically informed of it)
I have installed it already but it does not show up in Help->about...., it is still 1.8, so practically we don't know what exact version is installed. Do you know what is in 1.8c?
no: I looked at the modified files, and it seems that the only ones are some directories about audio, images, and so on.
maybe somehting in the exe too, that is now dated 19-12, while the previous update was dated 18-12 on hiarcs site.
note: confirmed: the old exe was dated 17-12, therefore the today's update is effective on my computer
Last edited by noctiferus on Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:54 am, edited 1 time in total.
http://hiarcs.com/chess-explorer.htm contains updates from v1.0 to 1.8
of course, but no download links - hiarcs@hiarcs.com wrote:
"Inside every HCE version is a Check for update menu item on the Help menu that will direct you to the latest version if one exists. When HCE runs it will contact the server and if a new version exists you will be informed and given a URL link to access it."
Did you made the same experiences? In my opinion customers were formerly informed by email-contact directly of HIARCS-team.
I like the fact that the interface is clean, simple and easy to use.
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