https://github.com/daylen/stockfish-mac
Beautiful, powerful chess app for the Mac
https://github.com/daylen/stockfish-mac
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Beautiful, powerful chess app for the Mac
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/daylen/stockfish-mac
- Owner: daylen
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2014-01-11T08:15:17.000Z (over 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-11-08T06:16:55.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-09T21:01:26.167Z (6 days ago)
- Topics: chess, stockfish
- Language: C++
- Homepage: http://stockfishchess.org/mac/
- Size: 262 MB
- Stars: 519
- Watchers: 28
- Forks: 118
- Open Issues: 53
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: license.txt
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README
# 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!