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Macintosh :: Computer Platforms

Sigma Chess 6.1.3 Lite - [Freeware] Free Macintosh chess program has 3D set, prints games with diagrams, includes HIARCS 10 demo, runs UCI chess engines. [ out Dec 29, 2005]

Chessmaster 9000 Mac - [ $40 commercial] Grandmaster strength, many training features. OS X 10.2+ and DVD drive required. Released Dec. 2004.
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Crafty 14.11B - [Freeware] Version of Crafty with code added so that ExaChess can be used as a GUI interface and computer-computer umpire.

404 Crafty Mac 18.08 text - [Freeware] Master strength chess engine, text interface only. Updated March 2001.

Gambіt 1.01 - [Shareware $20] Mac OSX Front end to Crafty with PGN browser. Updated 12-13-05.
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Glaurung and Scatha - [Freeware] UCI GUI with two engines: Glaurung (normal chess), Scatha (Glinski's hexagonal chess), requires OSX 10.3.9+
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500 GNUChess 4.0b5 - Freeware download, expert-strength Mac chess program.

HIARCS 10.0 - [Commercial $40] Strongest Macintosh chess program, in UCI engine form for Mac OS/X. Can use endgame tablebases. [Out Dec. 13, 2005]
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HIARCS 7.0 - [Commercial - $48] Macintosh OS9/Classic version of a former world champion chess program.

j2chess 2.4 - [Freeware] Simple OS/X chess game / PGN viewer in Java. Updated 17 Dec 2005
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MacChess - [Freeware] Master strength freeware program, ExaChess compatible, and with English/German/Dutch/Italian versions available.

MacChess - chess on Mac - Lists software for Mac OS X, classic, X11 and pre-OS X. Includes information for compiling and configuring X11 and XBoard based applications.
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MacUpdate: ChessKing 1.0 - ChessKing 1.0 - Challenge a friend to a game of chess.
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MacUpdate: ChessMate 6.3.5 - ChessMate 6.3.5 - Play chess against your computer or friend.
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RChess 2.2.3 - [Freeware] Chess playing program with many easy levels for beginners to win against.
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Screamer - [Freeware] Master strength program, also works as ExaChess engine.

Shredder - Commercial [ $30-$100] The Macintosh version of the 2005 World Computer Chess Blitz champion. Downloadable Demo. Released 10/3/2005.
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