Chess Software That Mac Uses Rating: 6,1/10 79 reviews
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shredderchess: Very good, its commercial (30$) but you can install a free demo that works for 30 days. Try it
Jan 22, 2015 What would you folks recommend for the best software packages for Mac - free and also paid? I've heard there are some nice programs designed for the Mac. I'm interested in various things with decent GUIs, including things such as engines to analyze games and positions, playing games against the computer, learning, etc. Apple Chess is a 3D chess game for macOS, developed by Apple Inc. The name 'Classic' is also sometimes used by software vendors to refer to the application programming interface available to 'classic' applications. It uses a Mac OS 9 System Folder. Chess is suitable for Mac OS X 10.9.0 or later. The most popular versions of the application are 3.1, 2.4 and 0.8. The actual developer of this free Mac application is Apple Inc.
chess explorer: soon to be released, will be the first native gui for mac built by hiarcs ( arguably the strongest engine existing now). Should be released this month. when released you could buy just this gui and add any free engine you want ( mac users lack gui, but not engines)
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Arena3.0 + houdini: the 32 bit for windows work quite fine using wine ( i used winebottler), so no 'unlicensed windows os' is needed to run on virtualbox.. ( i dont consider buy a windows licence an option. Its much cheaper and effective buy a commercial chess program for mac. At least if the aim is just to play chess).
New technology of giving the studying material: iBook that uses hyperlinks and additional windows for comfortable usage of the studying material. The most interesting positions can be viewed on the additional board and played against the built-in chess program.
Xboard, Jose, Stockfish, shid: other gui that still works, but very old design and some of them miss tha match analisys feature that the one i use most.
Personal hopinion: Shredderchess its a good product, probably worth the money it costs, and once bought the basic version you can add all the free engines you want.
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The cons its thats a 2 and half years old product. Personally ill be disapointed to buy a product and see the new version in the next few months. I will suggest you to download the free trial. Lorex cclient 13 app for mac. its a complete product just with 1600 elo engine max, and last 30 days. What is the best security software for my mac. Should be strong enough for you and you can check if you like the product. While you test this product keep al eye on hiarcs if the new gui for mac its released. ;-)
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p.s) If you dont care about the engine limit ( elo1600) remember that after the 30 day expiration, you can just uninstal and reinstall (but don't tell anybody).