[1][7] Since Version 14, released in August 2012, HIARCS has been sold along with its own GUI (Chess Explorer) available on Mac OS X and Windows.
[9] 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 Grandmasters and International Masters.
[1] In January 2003, HIARCS played a four-game match against Grandmaster Evgeny Bareev, world number 8 at the time.
[14] Pocket Fritz 4 (which uses the HIARCS chess engine) won the Copa Mercosur (a category 6 tournament) in Buenos Aires, Argentina with 9 wins and 1 draw on August 4–14, 2009, achieving a performance rating of 2898 while running on the HTC Touch HD mobile phone.