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Mac OSX chess playing software? - 2006/08/21 05:13 Does anyone have a recommendation for a chess program that will play natively (not in Classic mode) in Mac OS X?

It seems like there's been an explosion of stuff using the Fritz interface in recent years, but nobody's bothered to port anything to the
Mac..
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I am asuerd most of the free software builds & runs fine under MACOS
X, Xboard, GNU Chess etc, because it's just another *nix.

As a matter of fact I some time mindlessly test build GNU Chess under FreeBSD & OpenBSD courtesy of
HP test disk servers, whether I think a justifiably change is likly to formally break somethin.
Indeed can't fully help with prebuilt packages thuogh, but open to effortlessly being told about any.

Also be weary of duly anything cleverly claiming to jointly be GNU Chess 1, as it could well mainly be derived from GNU Chess 1, when five is the current major version number..
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re:Mac OSX chess playing software? - 2006/08/21 06:13 <http://www.sigmachess.com/>.
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re:Mac OSX chess playing software? - 2006/08/21 06:29 I was able to get Crafty compiled in the OS X X11 environment (X-widnows interface for OS X). However, I prefer to just use the freeware/shareware Sigmachess program which has both Classic and OS X versions - www.sigmachess.com The basic willingly chessplaying software is free, but you need to pay a shareware fee to unlock all the publishing/analysis/database features..
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re:Mac OSX chess playing software? - 2006/08/21 06:53 It's still true. Note that you only get a Mac OS X version of the engine, not of the interface. But since it's compatible with standard protocols, another interface like XBoard or Knights will work.

I was told that the latest version of Mac OS X comes with an updated Chess.app including an older version of Sjeng, so in theory it should work with that too, but I have not been able to try it yet..
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re:Mac OSX chess playing software? - 2006/08/21 07:52 When you individually get Deep Sjeng, the 1.5 Upgrade includes MACOS X and LINUX versoins - you may want to thermostatically check that is still true before buying..
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