Stockfish Chess (macOS) unavailable?

[clumma]

The official Stockfish app for macOS has been unavailable on the Mac App Store since 17.1 was released. At least this is true for macOS 14.6.1 in the U.S.



Is this a known issue? I don't see an issue for it on the app's GitHub page

https://github.com/daylen/stockfish-mac

-Carl

[OliverBr]

In App Store it isn't available here (Europe) either, but I didn't even know there was one.

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git clone https://github.com/daylen/stockfish-mac.git

works from everywhere in the world. I am very confident, that

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brew install stockfish

will work, too.

[OliverBr]

But I have to add, now newly testet, that there are some issue with the recent git clone. Binaries don't seem to work on an Intel CPU:

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$ ./stockfish-x86-64-bmi2 
Illegal instruction: 4

May be there is some thing we could fix. I'm willing to help with testing (Latest Intel 2019 MacBock).

[Hai]

May be there is some thing we could fix. I'm willing to help with testing (Latest Intel 2019 MacBock).

Wait 3-5 months and buy the M5 MAX or M5 ULTRA and donate hardware power to the Stockfish project.
This will help a lot.

[royb]

I download the source from https://abrok.eu/stockfish/

Assuming you are running a Mac with apple silicon (M1, M2, M3, or M4 CPU)...

Click on the link that says "see source". That takes you to the github page. There, click on the button labeled "Browse files". Then, click on the green button labeled "Code". Click on "Download ZIP". That will download a .zip file with the source code contained within it.

Expand the .zip file. in a terminal window, cd to the directory that was created when you unzipped the source .zip file.

cd to the src directory
compile the source with this command: make -j profile-build COMP=clang ARCH=apple-silicon

When done, you should have in the src directory a file named "stockfish" which is the executable. Then point your GUI at that stockfish binary and run it.

I hope this works for you. I've done it this way for several years now without any issues.

[OliverBr]

May be there is some thing we could fix. I'm willing to help with testing (Latest Intel 2019 MacBock).

Wait 3-5 months and buy the M5 MAX or M5 ULTRA and donate hardware power to the Stockfish project.
This will help a lot.

I will get a M3 Max soon, which is interesting, but it won't help with chess. JW's amazing bullet doesn't work with metal. Yet.
I am still using the Intel MacBook by own wish, because it can do amazing things like
- Starting any kind of Virtual Machine
- Plugging an eGPU to it
- Booting Windows
- Running DOS or Linux Programs without emulation

[Hai]

May be there is some thing we could fix. I'm willing to help with testing (Latest Intel 2019 MacBock).

Wait 3-5 months and buy the M5 MAX or M5 ULTRA and donate hardware power to the Stockfish project.
This will help a lot.

I will get a M3 Max soon, which is interesting, but it won't help with chess. JW's amazing bullet doesn't work with metal. Yet.
I am still using the Intel MacBook by own wish, because it can do amazing things like
- Starting any kind of Virtual Machine
- Plugging an eGPU to it
- Booting Windows
- Running DOS or Linux Programs without emulation

Why M3 MAX?
Take a look at: viewtopic.php?t=84840

[OliverBr]

Why M3 MAX?

Because it is what I could get from an employer to work on.

Take a look at: viewtopic.php?t=84840

Thank you, I will.
EDIT: Ok, you got my attention. If this is as it seems, the M3 MAX is far weaker than coming M5 Max??

[Hai]

Why M3 MAX?

Because it is what I could get from an employer to work on.

Take a look at: viewtopic.php?t=84840

Thank you, I will.
EDIT: Ok, you got my attention. If this is as it seems, the M3 MAX is far weaker than coming M5 Max??

Exactly.
If you get the M3 MAX for free, then take it, it's great and better than nothing.
But if possible, take the M5 MAX.

[OliverBr]

If you get the M3 MAX for free, then take it, it's great and better than nothing.

You get nothing for free. It may not cost money, still it's not for free.

This remembers me a dialogue in "The Prestige", where Tesla, played by David Bowie, says:
"Price is not an object, but have you considered the cost?"