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This is a list of all available XB/UCI chess engines that run on Linux, Mac, and/or Windows. The most recently released engines can always be found at the top of the list. The most recently released engines can always be found at the top of the list.
- So, I am running a Macbook Air, and I have been trying to figure out a way to run Chessmaster (I think 9000 is the last release on mac os) without having to carry around an external disc drive. I have no problem paying for the program, but I just can't really deal with having to have a cd in to play.
- Note: The Stockfish chess engine is a command line program. You may want to use it in your own UCI-compatible chess GUI.
- Title Developer/publisher Release date Genre License Mac OS versions A-10 Attack! Parsoft Interactive 1995 Flight simulator Abandonware 7.5–9.2.2.
Use Chess on your Mac to play a match online, against your computer, or even against yourself.
Play a game
In the Chess app on your Mac, do any of the following:
Challenge your Mac or a person to a game: Choose Game > New.
Tip: When you start a new game, move the pointer over the items in the Variant and Players pop-up menus to get information about them.
Play a match online: Sign in to Game Center, choose Game > New, click the Players pop-up menu, then choose Game Center Match.
Get hints: Choose Moves > Show Hint. An arrow points to where you should move the piece. If the level of difficulty is set to Faster, hints aren't available.
Take back a move: Choose Moves > Take Back Move for each move you want to undo.
See moves: Choose Moves > Show Last Move; an arrow points from the piece's originating square to its new square. To see all the moves made during a game, choose Moves > Game Log.
Customize a game
In the Chess app on your Mac, do any of the following:
Set the level of difficulty: Choose Chess > Preferences, then drag the slider toward Faster or Stronger to decrease or increase the difficulty or speed (not available when you're playing another person).
Change the look of a game: Choose Chess > Preferences, then choose a style for the board and pieces.
Reaching out (thijsengel) mac os. Change the viewing angle of the board: Click and hold any corner of the board, then adjust the viewing angle using your mouse or trackpad.
Hear moves spoken: Choose Chess > Preferences, select the checkboxes for the moves you want to hear, then choose the voices.
Use spoken commands
Make sure keyboard dictation is on in Dictation preferences.
In the Chess app on your Mac, choose Chess > Preferences, then select Allow Player to Speak Moves.
When you see the feedback window (it shows a microphone icon with a fluctuating loudness indicator), press the shortcut key (the key you specified in Dictation preferences), then speak a command.
Try not to hesitate while speaking.
You can use spoken commands for the following actions:
Action | Spoken command example |
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Move a piece | 'Pawn e2 to e4' |
Capture a piece | 'Pawn e5 takes f6' |
Drop a piece | 'Drop bishop at g4' (only for crazyhouse games) |
Promote a pawn | 'Pawn e7 to e8 promoting to queen' |
Castle | 'Castle kingside' or 'Castle queenside' |
Take back a move | 'Take back move' |
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Aquarium 2019
Fast, strong, solid!
What's new in ChessOK Aquarium 2019:
- 3-month Chess King LEARN subscription, giving access to all courses available there (60 as of Nov.2018 and counting)! The courses are available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and include such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0, Chess: From Beginner to Club Player, Chess Strategy, Chess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.
- Updated databases now contain 7.077 million games in total!
- 1-year access to Lomonosov Tablebases! The subscription will be active for 1 year starting the date of activation at the tablebases service.
Quick Overview
ChessOK Aquarium 2019 offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing, databases and much more.
If you already own the Houdini 6 UCI engine and are looking for an appropriate interface, ChessOK Aquarium 2019 is the best you can find.
Interactive Deep Analysis is the the most advanced chess analysis method available today.
Infinite Analysis is more flexible than ever with analysis presets.
Find Blunders and Game Analysis for analyzing whole games.
You receive 1-year access to 7-piece Lomonosov endgame tablebases via the Aquarium interface or at tb7.chessok.com.
You also receive 3-month access to all courses at Chess King Learn. The collection includes courses on all topics and for all levels of play. Use your product key as a promo code to activate the subscription. (How to activate Chess King Learn bonus subscription)
ChessOK Aquarium 2019 can auto-find chess programs (including the strong Stockfish 8 engine) on the Internet, download and install them - all in a couple of clicks.
Play against the computer. Choose from three different strength handicap methods, material handicap or time handicap. You can also just set the ELO level you want to play against!
Publish your games, analyses or even whole chess books! Publish as Aquarium iBook, on the web/blog or in print.
Compatibility with major opening book and database formats.
Databases of about 7.077 million games in total (up to November 2, 2018) that can be updated from www.chessok.com each week with 1500 new games for free.
Language versions: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Russian.
System requirements: PC, 256 MB RAM, 4GB of free disk space, Windows 10/8/7/Vista. Internet access to access Lomonosov Tablebases.
SCREENSHOTS:
ChessOK Aquarium - Ultimate Analysis and Playing Tool
ChessOK Aquarium is a revolutionary analysis, database and chess publishing tool, fully compatible with the world's strongest chess playing engines, including Houdini 6 and Stockfish. ChessOK Aquarium combines an easy-to-navigate interface with advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing against the computer, databases, advanced publishing options and many other features.
One of its unique features, Interactive Deep Analysis, is the most advanced chess analysis method available today. The purpose of IDeA is to analyze a position deeply and return as much information about it as possible to enable the user to get a better understanding of the nuances of any position. Its unique approach makes it an essential weapon in the arsenal of every serious player and analyst!
ChessOK Aquarium was developed by Convekta Ltd, widely known for such famous programs as Chess Assistant and CT-ART. Those of you who never used Aquarium should definitely consider trying out this most advanced chess interface.
Easy-to-Use Interface
Despite having numerous functions and customization options, Aquarium is easy to use navigate - thanks to a modern interface employing the Ribbon - an element you may be familiar with from the latest Microsoft Office products and some other modern programs. It provides means to make all options easily accessible without limiting the number of options.
The Ribbon |
Aquarium comes with a good selection of graphical customization options, allowing you to choose styles for board and pieces.
Visual annotations are an effective tool to recall your thoughts about a position and quickly remind you of its most important features. They are also essential for creating video lectures and very useful for live commentary.
Infinite Analysis Trees
One of the unique features of Aquarium is that it stores your infinite analysis results. If you run into the same position, even in a different database and even if it came up through a different move order, you can see that you have analyzed it before. Besides examining the result you can insert the variation and evaluation into the game you are currently viewing. You can also add a column with the infinite analysis tree to a tree configuration, so you can always see the evaluation of the different moves in the tree window.
If you use multiple chess engines, the analysis results and trees can be stored separately for each engine.
Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA)
IDeA is one of the most advanced methods available for analyzing chess positions. In fact, it is more of an analysis environment rather than a simple analysis feature. Similar to 'infinite analysis,' IDeA continues analyzing until you decide to stop it; however, the similarities end there.
Instead of analyzing the same position forever, IDeA behaves like a strong chess player analyzing a position. If you ever studied Kotov's Think Like a Grandmaster, you no doubt remember his well known advice to identify candidate moves and methodically examine them to build an 'analysis tree.' This is how IDeA works.
The purpose of IDeA is to dig deeply into a position and return as much information about it as possible. IDeA keeps its analysis in a tree structure which is unlimited in size and the user can browse at will, even while the analysis is in progress.
Besides having a live view of how the analysis is evolving the user can also direct the analysis into the most interesting positions by excluding or adding positions and variations to the analysis queue.
In short IDeA is a highly selective search controlled by Aquarium (and by the Aquarium user). Interesting lines are analyzed deeply but weak moves are only considered briefly or not at all.
There is no doubt that Interactive Deep Analysis is a very powerful tool in the hands of the serious chess player.
Integration of IDeA and Infinite Analysis
The biggest news introduced in Aquarium is the improved integration of IDeA and infinite analysis. The first steps in this direction were taken in Aquarium 4. The most important of those was the introduction of IDeA game links (see IDeA Master Trees and IDeA Game Links), which added a new level of convenience by creating an 'analysis center' where IDeA is accessible along with other Aquarium analysis tools such as infinite analysis, without the need to switch back and forth between the game and IDeA.
Aquarium takes the integration one step further by sending infinite analysis results automatically to the IDeA queue or even directly to the IDeA project tree without the need to re-analyze the positions in IDeA. This means that if you run infinite analysis in a game linked to a project, the variations produced by the engine will be compared to the positions in the project tree; and if they haven't been analyzed, they will be sent to IDeA.
For the Infinite Analysis Users
IDeA is one of the most advanced methods available for analyzing chess positions. In fact, it is more of an analysis environment rather than a simple analysis feature. Similar to 'infinite analysis,' IDeA continues analyzing until you decide to stop it; however, the similarities end there.
Instead of analyzing the same position forever, IDeA behaves like a strong chess player analyzing a position. If you ever studied Kotov's Think Like a Grandmaster, you no doubt remember his well known advice to identify candidate moves and methodically examine them to build an 'analysis tree.' This is how IDeA works.
The purpose of IDeA is to dig deeply into a position and return as much information about it as possible. IDeA keeps its analysis in a tree structure which is unlimited in size and the user can browse at will, even while the analysis is in progress.
Besides having a live view of how the analysis is evolving the user can also direct the analysis into the most interesting positions by excluding or adding positions and variations to the analysis queue.
In short IDeA is a highly selective search controlled by Aquarium (and by the Aquarium user). Interesting lines are analyzed deeply but weak moves are only considered briefly or not at all.
There is no doubt that Interactive Deep Analysis is a very powerful tool in the hands of the serious chess player.
Integration of IDeA and Infinite Analysis
The biggest news introduced in Aquarium is the improved integration of IDeA and infinite analysis. The first steps in this direction were taken in Aquarium 4. The most important of those was the introduction of IDeA game links (see IDeA Master Trees and IDeA Game Links), which added a new level of convenience by creating an 'analysis center' where IDeA is accessible along with other Aquarium analysis tools such as infinite analysis, without the need to switch back and forth between the game and IDeA.
Aquarium takes the integration one step further by sending infinite analysis results automatically to the IDeA queue or even directly to the IDeA project tree without the need to re-analyze the positions in IDeA. This means that if you run infinite analysis in a game linked to a project, the variations produced by the engine will be compared to the positions in the project tree; and if they haven't been analyzed, they will be sent to IDeA.
For the Infinite Analysis Users
The infinite Analysis in Aquarium is as solid as ever. In fact the users that gain most from the improved analysis features in Aquarium 2018 are those who use infinite analysis. With the improvements in Aquarium 2018 you can automatically keep track of all your infinite analysis broken down by chess engine. If you want to check a previously analyzed position at a later time, you can see how it was evaluated by each of the chess engines used to analyze the position.
Even if you prefer infinite analysis and never use IDeA, additional options give you a good reason to look into IDeA once more. At no extra cost in time you will get a tool to monitor your infinite analysis and permanently record the results in a way that makes them easy to access and view in the Tree window.
After some brief customization IDeA will not generate any positions on its own and the only positions it will process are positions that you send to it, either manually or automatically from infinite analysis using one of the options described above. In this case you would add the infinite analysis positions directly to the project tree.
Easy HTML Export of iBooks and Games
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Exporting iBooks and games in Aquarium is a matter of few clicks if you need to do it fast, but also allows for advanced customization in case you want to adjust the design for your site or blog. You can save your custom settings.
For more information and detailed guides, refer to the related articles at chessok.com.
ChessOK Playing Club
The ChessOK Playing Club (also known as Chess Planet or ChessOK Playing Zone) client is included in the basic Aquarium installation package.
ChessOK Playing Club is a chess server where you can play opponents all over the world for free. Besides offering the usual time-controls for shorter games, this site has great support for correspondence chess with new tournaments starting all the time. New in this version is support for Fischerandom or Chess960 games.
Most its features are completelty free, but buying Aquarium also gets you one year of free membership in ChessOK Playing Zone.
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CAP
I've been looking at the CAP analysis that comes with Aquarium 2018. For those who are not familiar with the CAP project, it is a chess tree (position database) with chess engine evaluation of fifty-five million positions. Each position is analyzed for one minute and the results are minimaxed. IDeA users will probably realize that the quality of such analysis can be quite good and in general the CAP evaluations after the early opening seem to reflect the possibilities of both sides quite well.
One of the features of the Aquarium 2018 CAP database is the analysis of the first twenty-five moves of all high-rated correspondence games from the ICCF game archive. Therefore, it is worth keeping an eye on the CAP scores while browsing the games.
Naturally, a high rated correspondence player can't rely entirely on CAP evaluations when selecting moves. Move selection in correspondence games requires much deeper analysis. However, a key factor in modern correspondence chess is to find positions that are initially evaluated favorably by chess engines, but can be shown to be dangerous after deep and careful analysis. CAP can be helpful in picking out such positions.
Lomonosov Tablebases
Lomonosov Tablebases allow you to determine if any position with 7 or less pieces leads to a draw or can be won by either side - with 100% certainty.
If the game can be won, the path with the least number of moves until the end of this variation is shown, given that both players make the best moves possible. If the losing player makes a suboptimal move, he will lose sooner and the program will show the new optimal path.
Chess King LEARN Courses
ChessOK Aquarium 2019 comes with 3-month access to all courses available at learn.chessking.com.
So far, the collection consists of 60 courses available in 9 European languages, sorted by category and difficulty level, and includes such gems as Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0, Chess: From Beginner to Club Player, Chess Strategy, Chess Middlegame series, several courses from CT-ART and Chess Tactics in the Opening series and more.
Learn more about Aquarium
A detailed overview of the previous instalment of Aquarium: Part 1, Part 2.
Learn more about Aquarium and read comprehensive guides to its numerous features in the Articles section.