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Stockfish Mac app
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:48 am
by daylen
It's finally here! A beautiful, powerful chess app for the Mac.
http://stockfishchess.org/mac/
And the source code is here on GitHub (GPLv3):
https://github.com/daylen/stockfish-mac
Some features:
- Stockfish engine (obviously)
- PGN support (no variations or commentary, though)
- FEN support
- Automatic hardware detection
Since this is a 1.0, there are missing features:
- No chess clocks
- No opening books
- No endgame tablebases
- No one-player mode
Short development history: I started with about 9000 lines from Tord's Stockfish for iPhone app, and wrote about 3000 lines over 2 weeks to get it to where it is today.
If you have a Mac, I think you should check it out, and if you would like to, I welcome pull requests!
Re: Stockfish Mac app
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 4:29 am
by arjuntemurnikar
AWESOME!! As a mac user, thank you very much! I have been waiting for a decent chess analysis app for *like forever*!!
Rated 5 stars!
Re: Stockfish Mac app
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:06 am
by gladius
Great stuff! Congratulations, it looks really nice
Re: Stockfish Mac app
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:36 am
by Werewolf
Nice one. Can you add Stockfish Dev versions, or is it just the Stockfish that comes with it?
Re: Stockfish Mac app
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:20 pm
by zullil
It looks gorgeous; good luck developing it further. But I'm switching to a linux workstation. Really disappointed with the CPU options in the new Mac Pro. $4000 for 6 cores? I'll be getting 16 physical cores for $5000.
Re: Stockfish Mac app
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:33 pm
by daylen
It comes with the latest Dev version as of January 19. I haven't tried it yet, but you might be able to drop in new binaries into the app if you right click it and "show package contents." Or you can put in new binaries and compile from the GitHub project.
Re: Stockfish Mac app
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:52 am
by Norbert Raimund Leisner
http://eric.terrien.pagesperso-orange.f ... age21.html
(chess programs for iPad/iPhone, written in French language)
Re: Stockfish Mac app
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:37 am
by Kaj Soderberg
Thank you Daylen for the nice looking app.
I was looking for a way to set up a position (clear board and enter pieces), in order to then let infinite analysis do its thing. Couldn't find it, only pasting a string is possible, right? Or it could be my early morning clumsiness
Thanks for clarification in advance.
Cheers,
Kaj
Re: Stockfish Mac app
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:07 am
by arjuntemurnikar
I thought you would be updating it frequently with the latest SF dev releases. If you are not, then why did you throw in a dev version in the first place?
Re: Stockfish Mac app (requires Mavericks!)
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:59 am
by zullil
daylen wrote:It's finally here! A beautiful, powerful chess app for the Mac.
http://stockfishchess.org/mac/
If you have a Mac
running OS X 10.9 or later, I think you should check it out, and if you would like to, I welcome pull requests!
Can you build this to run on earlier versions of OS X? In any case, you ought to be clear on your website that the current app is Mavericks only.