In 1997 the World's strongest ever human chess player, Garry Kasparov, said 'HIARCS is much better positionally than Deep Blue' and even the current World champion, Vishy Anand, in a recent interview when asked what chess program he uses to analyse with said 'generally I use HIARCS'.
It twice won the Mercusor Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina ahead of Grandmasters with a performance of 2900 Elo, the best chess performance rating for any handheld device in history. HIARCS is a multiple World Championship winning chess program and the only handheld chess program in the world which has won matches and tournaments with Grandmasters.