1. Highly polished chess app with superb training facilities. Advanced chess client following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. Chess game for the KDE desktop environment. Chess database and FICS client. Graphical user interface chessboard for chess engines.
2. The obvious choice for number one, but it's really (by far) the best chess app for pretty.

World class chess database, analysis and game playing program for Mac
World Computer Chess Software Champion Engine
Suitable for all players from beginners to the World Chess Champion with human-like play
Platform: Runs on any Mac since 2010, Intel or the new Apple Silicon (M1 chips).
All Apple macOS™ 10.10 or later; Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur incl. Retina graphics.
Playing ability: Beginner (750 Elo) to World Champion strength and beyond (3200+ Elo)† with human-like play
GUI Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
Detailed user manual and help videos in English
25th May 2021 edition supports latest Apple macOS Big Sur and Intel or Apple M1

Chess Free - Two Player Board Game is an Android app and cannot be installed on Windows PC or MAC directly. Android Emulator is a software application that enables you to run Android apps and games on a PC by emulating Android OS.

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HIARCS Chess Explorer App for Mac

'Clearly the best chess software for the Apple Macintosh' - Chess Magazine

HIARCS Mac Chess Explorer is a revolutionary chess database, analysis and playing program for Apple Macintosh computers. It offers an innovative and intuitive new graphical user interface with powerful features together with the World Chess Software Champion HIARCS 14 chess engine. This unique combination is refreshingly easy to use and includes many new features for chess preparation, analysis and training for players of all abilities from beginner to Grandmaster. It has specialised features to help weaker chess players improve their chess including special realistic weakened opponents, a chess coach which can demonstrate mistakes, show improvements and help you improve your chess.

Key features include: Prodikey driver.

Windows

Note: The Stockfish chess engine is a command line program. You may want to use it in your own UCI-compatible chess GUI.

⚡️ Faster: Works on modern computers.

🐢 More compatible: Is a bit slower, but works on the vast majority of computers.

If you're looking for binaries for a specific CPU architecture, see all Windows binaries

Android

One app that we recommend is DroidFish:

If you want the engine only, here are binaries:

⚡️ Faster: Works on most Android devices.

🐢 More compatible: Is slower, but works on older Android devices.

macOS

The easiest way to get started is with the Stockfish app:
Typing club hack.

If you want the engine only, you can get it through Homebrew:brew install stockfish

iOS

One app that we recommend is SmallFish:

Linux

See all Linux binaries

Source Code

Chess For Mac Free

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