Macintosh Products.

by Malcolm
(Suffern, NY, USA)

There are Macintosh Chess Products.
1. Commercial Products-
Chess Master 9000
After installing download the patches.
http://www.feralinteractive.com/game/chessmaster9k

2. freeware/Shareware:
http://www.sigmachess.com/
Packaged with HIARCS.
The shareware product licensed allows database files in pgn.
Sigma Chess is a freeware, master strength Macintosh chess program for Mac OS X. The feature set includes: Optional HIARCS engine, UCI Engine support, Databases, PGN/EPD, basic desktop publishing, endgame databases, novice levels, a true perspective 3D board, ExaChess compatibility and much more. Sigma also runs on Classic Mac OS, but this is no longer officially supported.
After installing download the plugins. Boards, piece sets.
There is a free working product.
Rating 2800+

3. Review sites: http://www.atpm.com/7.02/chess.shtml
Macintosh reviews of Chess products.
Macintoshchess in Yahoo! Groups.
(I am the moderator).

4. Other Products:
Freeware: http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/
Current version 1.4.4

http://www.exachess.com/
xaChess 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. See Features and Screenshots below to find out more, and Ordering for pricing, ordering and contact details.

ExaChess Lite is a freeware version of ExaChess which provides most of the features of ExaChess in a version suitable for maintaining a personal games collection. You can download ExaChess Lite from this web site.

Bookup formerly was for the Mac. But currently only for WIndows.

Vanessa and Vektor: http://www.schubert-it.com/

5. Fritz, Chessbase, and Window Chess Products:
On the Intel Macs, with either Parallels 5.0 , or Fusion software you can run any
Window based Chess Product. Beside the above software,( either one) you also need a Window Operating System, XP, Vista, or Windows 7.
Do not install a previously installed licensed product of Windows.
You need a new licensed copy.
Chess CDs, such as Lasker, Tal, Steinitz will run and quite well.
MacWorld bench marks indicated Intel Macs run Windows just as fast as Window Computers. Recommendation; When purchasing a new Mac as for a large Hard Drive, and increased memory to avoid problems.
Any questions go to Yahoo! groups, Macintoshchess.