You mentioned that SCID is ugly. Well that - mostly - is true. I hated the piece sets that came with SCID. They were all blurry or pixelated, so I made my own (I made existing chess fonts ready to use in SCID).
I sent them to the developers and they probably will be included in future SCID releases (or already if you compile your own dev snapshots).
Ok apart from the board, the user interface is pretty gray and emotionless and/or (mostly) functional. But it's pretty old software and all the developers tend to focus on functionality.
Interested people can visit my SCID thread at talkchess (HD pieces, new board colors, latest databases (2,63 million games) and more:
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=669575#669575
But nothing is wrong with HIARCS if you like it. What I can say about it from the product video, it seems to be pretty solid. I like the online books/tablebases.
But still... I don't think it's something for me. SCID is just a HUGE tool for a chess player and it cost >100€ less
I sent them to the developers and they probably will be included in future SCID releases (or already if you compile your own dev snapshots).
Ok apart from the board, the user interface is pretty gray and emotionless and/or (mostly) functional. But it's pretty old software and all the developers tend to focus on functionality.
Interested people can visit my SCID thread at talkchess (HD pieces, new board colors, latest databases (2,63 million games) and more:
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=669575#669575
But nothing is wrong with HIARCS if you like it. What I can say about it from the product video, it seems to be pretty solid. I like the online books/tablebases.
But still... I don't think it's something for me. SCID is just a HUGE tool for a chess player and it cost >100€ less