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

Beautiful, powerful chess app for the Mac
https://github.com/daylen/stockfish-mac

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# Stockfish for Mac

Stockfish for Mac is a powerful chess analysis app. Play two-player games on the beautiful chess board, or get instant accurate analysis of any game.

[Stockfish for Mac web site](http://stockfishchess.org/mac/)

[Mac App Store download link](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stockfish/id801463932?ls=1&mt=12)

# Features

Stockfish for Mac has many of the essential features one would expect in a professional chess analysis application:

- Chess board with "Magic Move" animations, legal move highlight, best move arrow
- Can interface with any UCI chess engine
- Supports opening, viewing, and saving multi-game PGN files
- System hardware detection to load 64-bit, SSE4.2, or Haswell binaries
- MultiPV
- Undo/Redo
- Supports copying and pasting FEN strings
- Supports some UCI options

Features Stockfish for Mac does not have are currently open tickets in the issue tracker.

# Acknowledgements

Stockfish for Mac is powered by the open-source [Stockfish chess engine](https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish). This project also uses source code from Tord Romstad's [Stockfish for iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stockfish-chess/id305558605?mt=8) app.

# License

GPL version 3. Please submit pull requests if you make improvements to Stockfish for Mac!