Legaroid's Chess Mac OS
Welcome to the home of ExaChess! ExaChess is a powerful, full-featured chess-database program for the Macintosh. It can manage a database of millions of master games, serve as a chessboard to play through games, and be used as a tool to record and annotate your own games, to play games against the computer, or to play perfect endgames. HIARCS Chess Explorer for Apple Mac OS. A new version 1.9.5 of HIARCS Chess Explorer is now available for you to download and install. It is compatible with any Mac OS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later including the new Big Sur (macOS 11). MacinCloud provides managed and dedicated cloud Mac servers, hosted private cloud solutions and DevOp pipelines. Users can access on-demand Mac servers for app development, Mac tasks, and enterprise builds. All of our plans and solutions are backed by genuine Mac hardware hosted in 8 professional data centers around the globe.
I have a Mac (running OS 10.7 Lion), and am just starting to learn to play chess. What would you recommend as the best software for learning on a Mac?
I have Fritz 9, which I can run on an old machine running Windows. It's ok, but it also seems a bit clunky and awkward with its interface (besides simply looking dated -- which I can handle, since it's free for me -- some of the commands are not where I expect them to be, and don't always function the way I would expect).
I've been trying out the trial of Shredder Classic 4, but find I miss some of the 'newbie' features in the old Fritz 9 software. That's even more the case with Stockfish, which is great for a free app, but doesn't have much (beyond the game itself, of course) for someone new to chess.
- There are a lot of applications that I have no use for that take up space on my Mac that I want to delete. When ever I try to delete them it says that it is an essential part of the OS but with Chess.app, I find that reason specious at best.
- Operating Systems Mac OS X 10.4 PPC, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 Intel, Macintosh, Mac OS X 10.4.
So my question is: am I best off with Shredder or Stockfish, and simply doing the best I can to learn from books, or would I still be better off with Fritz 9 on an old computer? I'm open to buying another Windows chess software, but it would need to be VERY GOOD for beginners to convince me to buy software for an OS that I don't really use anymore.
Since OS X 10.2 Apple has included a Chess game by default on your Mac. The current version allows you to play against the computer with varying difficultly levels, play against another person, and even play online. You can change the look of the 3D board, hear moves and even speak to make a move. You can also save and resume games.Check out Play Chess On Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.