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. Play, analyze, and improve your game with this affordable software for the Mac. Many of you have been waiting for chess playing software that’s compatible with your Mac. Chess King has all the features you’ll need to improve your game. It analyzes your every move. Login to your Chess.com account, and start enjoying all the chess games, videos, and puzzles that are waiting for you! If you have any issues while logging into your account, do not worry.
In the Chess app on your Mac, choose Chess Preferences, then select Allow Player to Speak Moves. When you see the feedback window (it shows a microphone icon with a fluctuating loudness indicator), press the shortcut key (the key you specified in Dictation preferences), then speak a command. Try not to hesitate while speaking. Free and Open Source. Version 1.5.4 just released: There is a new Move Reader for visually handicapped users, a dark theme and many other tweaks and fixes. If you don't trust online binaries of if you want to extend ChessX with your own ideas: Download the source here and compile for yourself.
With the free Chess game already included as part of OS X, you may wonder why you’d need another way to play chess on the Mac—or why you’d lay down hard-earned cash to get it. But Feral Interactive’s Chessmaster 9000 isn’t just a chess game. It’s the ultimate chess resource.
Chessmaster 9000 lets you choose from more than 60 different 3-D boards. New players are assigned a basic skill rating, and as you play games, the software adjusts your rating to reflect your skill level. Chessmaster 9000 then uses this rating to select the computer-controlled opponents that are most appropriate for you—opponents range from newbies to grand masters. If you run into trouble during a game, you can get on-the-fly advice from the Chessmaster.
Unless you play chess regularly, you’ll probably want to brush up on your strategy. And to that end, Chessmaster 9000 includes the Classroom. Here you can run tutorials, by real-life chess pros such as Josh Waitzkin, Bruce Pandolfini, and Larry Evans, on everything from moving the pieces to setting up elaborate attacks and defenses. The game lets you specify your level of instruction: beginners can run basic tutorials and drills, intermediate players can practice openings or take the Larry Evans Endgame Quiz, and experts can solve challenging chess puzzles or try advanced drills.
The game provides a Kids’ Room, which offers a simplified interface and basic drills to help youngsters hone their chess skills. There’s also a Database Room for true chess fanatics. A data miner’s paradise, this room contains information on more than half a million real-world chess games—some collected as recently as 2002. Here you can analyze openings, add new game content, and much more.
Chessmaster 9000 includes all the trappings of its Windows counterpart, but thanks to a complete interface overhaul by Feral, it feels like a Mac game. It even connects to iTunes so you can listen to your playlists as you compete. You can also set your iChat status to let others know when you’re playing chess. The game offers online play, but you’re limited to competing against other Mac gamers.
Feral lists the minimum hardware requirement as a 700MHz G4. But even with my 1.5GHz G4, I ran into some occasional pokiness when loading different parts of the game. However, the slowdowns didn’t detract from the otherwise excellent and trouble-free experience.
The Bottom Line
Feral Interactive’s Chessmaster 9000 is the best chess game you can buy for the Mac. It’s an absolute must-have for chess fans who want serious competition and training.
Chessmaster 9000 lets you relive a classic game played by 19th century masters.
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a series of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc, introduced on January 24, 1984 by Steve Jobs. It was the first mass-market personal computer featuring a graphical user interface and a mouse.
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| Model | Year | Processor |
|---|---|---|
| Macintosh 128K | 1984 | 68000 |
| Macintosh II | 1987 | 68020 |
| Macintosh IIx | 1988 | 68030 |
| Macintosh Quadra | 1991 | 68040 |
| Power Mac | 1994 | PowerPC |
| iMac G3 | 1998 | PowerPC G3 |
| iMac G4 | 2002 | PowerPC G4 |
| iMac G5 | 2004 | PowerPC G5 |
| iMac (Intel) | 2006 | x86-64 |
| Mac Pro | 2006, 2013 | x86-64 |
| MacBook Air Mac Mini | 2020 | Apple M1 |
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- Distributing engines for Mac/OSX by Harm Geert MullerCCC, March 17, 2016 » Mac OS
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- Apple New Mac Mini by Michael Byrne, CCC, November 17, 2020
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- Mac Chess Engines Repository hosted by Julien Marcel
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- ↑Apple M1 from Wikipedia