native for mac:
BEST CHESS SOFTWARE FOR MAC & PC. Chess King Diamond Pro (new for 2018) Download. Chess King Diamond (new for 2018) Download. Perfect Entry: Chess King Standard. Supports all PC & Mac configurations. Has all the games, puzzles, quest games as the other two versions.
shredderchess: Very good, its commercial (30$) but you can install a free demo that works for 30 days. Try it
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)
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).
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.
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. its a complete product just with 1600 elo engine max, and last 30 days. 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. ;-)
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).
Developer(s) | GNU project |
---|---|
Stable release | 4.9.1 / July 31, 2016; 3 years ago |
Repository | |
Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Microsoft Windows, macOS |
Type | Computer chess |
License | GPL |
Website | XBoard |
XBoard is a graphical user interfacechessboard for chess engines under the X Window System. It is developed and maintained as free software by the GNU project. WinBoard is a port of XBoard to run natively on Microsoft Windows.
Overview[edit]
Originally developed by Tim Mann as a front end for the GNU Chessengine, XBoard eventually came to be described as a graphical user interface for XBoard engines.[1] It also acts as a client for Internet Chess Servers,[2] and e-mail chess,[3] and can allow the user to play through saved games.[4]
XBoard/WinBoard remain updated, and the Chess Engine Communication Protocol has been extended to meet the needs of modern engines (which have features such as hash tables, multi-processing and end-game tables, which could not be controlled through the old protocol).
XBoard/WinBoard also fully support engines that play chess variants, such as Fairy-Max. This means the GUI is able to display a wide range of variants such as xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess), makruk (Thai chess), Crazyhouse, Capablanca Chess and many other Western variants on boards of various sizes. It offers a Westernized representation for these games, but the almost limitless configurability of XBoard/WinBoard also allows a high-quality representation of non-Western style games.[5]
Screenshot of XBoard showing a game of shogi
Another computer chess protocol is the Universal Chess Interface (UCI). XBoard/WinBoard supports this protocol (and its dialects USI and UCCI, which are in common use for shogi and Chinese chess) through adapter programs such as Polyglot and UCI2WB.
Since 2014 there exists a special version of XBoard that better integrates with Apple's OS X. It is distributed from WinBoard forum as an OS X App, including several engines (for chess and many chess variants), and adapters for running engines in non-natively supported protocols. It also contains supporting software for connecting with the popular Internet Chess Servers FICS and ICC for on-line play. XBoard OS X Apps that specifically configure XBoard for oriental-style shogi or xiangqi are also available.
WinBoard is a version of XBoard adapted to MS Windows, and is available in a similar package.[6]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Hagen, William von (13 May 2010). Ubuntu Linux Bible: Featuring Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 15–16. ISBN978-0-470-88180-4. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^Negus, Chris (9 May 2003). Red Hat Linux 9 bible. Wiley Pub. p. 242. ISBN978-0-7645-3938-1. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^Mui, Linda; Quercia, Valérie (1994). X user tools. O'Reilly & Associates. p. 186. ISBN978-1-56592-019-4. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^Johnson, Chris F. A. (2005). Shell scripting recipes: a problem-solution approach. Apress. p. 294. ISBN978-1-59059-471-1. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^'XBoard'. gnu.org. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^http://home.hccnet Fairy-Max: an AI for playing user-defined Chess variants.
External links[edit]
- XBoard on GNU Savannah
- FAQ for the use of Xboard and Winboard chess engines
- Listing of Xboard and Winboard chess engines
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XBoard&oldid=921402502'