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==Competition results== HIARCS has won numerous computer and human tournaments. In 1991, it won the title of the ''World Amateur Microcomputer Chess Champion'' at the 11th [[World Microcomputer Chess Championship]] (WMCCC), in 1992, it won the gold medal at the [[4th Computer Olympiad]], and in 1993, it won the ''World Microcomputer Chess Championship'' held in Munich.<ref>{{cite web|title=12th World Microcomputer Chess Championship|url=http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=57%2012th%20World%20Microcomputer%20Chess%20Championship|accessdate=25 October 2013}}</ref> In April 1997, HIARCS 6.0 became the first PC chess program to win a match played at tournament time controls over a [[FIDE]] [[International Master]]. In the same year, HIARCS went on to win the Godesberg Open ahead of [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmasters]] and [[International Master]]s.<ref name=milestones /> In January 2003, HIARCS played a four-game match against Grandmaster [[Evgeny Bareev]], world number 8 at the time. All the four games were [[draw (chess)|drawn]], resulting in a tied match.<ref name=milestones /> Since 2005, HIARCS has been tested to be the strongest chess program available on a handheld device. It is the top handheld on the [[Swedish Chess Computer Association|SSDF]] rating list, and was considered the strongest engine in a comprehensive review of 63 handheld chess programs.<ref name=milestones /><ref name="pocket" /> In December 2007, HIARCS won the 17th [[International Paderborn Computer Chess Championship]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=475|title=Developers' announcement of 17th Paderborn championship victory|accessdate=2008-03-04}}</ref> and after the disqualification of Rybka,<ref name="rybka-disqualified">[[Rybka]] placed first but the program was found to have plagiarized [[Crafty]] and [[Fruit (chess engine)|Fruit]] (the [[GPL]]'ed runner-up in 2005), and was stripped of its title. ({{cite web|last=Doggers|first=Peter|title=Rybka disqualified and banned from World Computer Chess Championships|url=http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/rybka-disqualified-and-banned-from-world-computer-chess-championships/|publisher=Chess Vibes|accessdate=29 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630152638/http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/rybka-disqualified-and-banned-from-world-computer-chess-championships/|archive-date=30 June 2011|url-status=dead}})</ref> HIARCS was placed first at the 2008 [[World Computer Chess Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|title=16th World Computer Chess Championship|url=http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=178|accessdate=25 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009103525/http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=178|archive-date=9 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> It also won the 2009 [[International CSVN Tournament]], and the [[World Chess Software Championship]] in 2011<ref>{{cite web|title=9th World Computer Chess Championship (Software)|url=http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=240|accessdate=25 October 2013}}</ref> and 2013.<ref>[http://www.hiarcs.com/Games/wcsc13/wcsc2013.htm HIARCS wins the 2013 Computer Chess Software Championship]</ref> Pocket Fritz 4 (which uses the HIARCS chess engine) won the Copa Mercosur (a [[Category (chess tournament)|category]] 6 tournament) in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina with 9 wins and 1 [[draw (chess)|draw]] on August 4β14, 2009, achieving a [[Glossary of chess#Performance rating|performance rating]] of 2898 while running on the [[HTC Touch HD]] mobile phone.<ref>[http://www.hiarcs.com/Games/Mercosur2009/mercosur09.htm Mercosur Cup 2009], www.hiarcs.com</ref><ref name=milestones /> It searched around 20,000 nodes per second, far less than it would on an average home computer.<ref>{{cite web|title=The New Pocket Fritz 4(Hiarcs) Wins in Mercosur 2009 9.5/10|url=http://hiarcs.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2537&start=67|accessdate=25 October 2013}}</ref>
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