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Since OS X 10.2 Apple has included a Chess game by default on your Mac. The current version allows you to play against the computer with varying difficultly levels, play against another person, and even play online. You can change the look of the 3D board, hear moves and even speak to make a move. You can also save and resume games.

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Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Did you know that a chess game comes with your Mac and it has for a long time. You can find it in the Applications folder, it's right there, or just launch it with Spotlight by using Command space and typing chess. It's a pretty versatile app. It asks you to sign in with iCloud, I'll tell you why later, but for now you can just cancel and skip that. So, you can start a new game and there are several different modes in this chess game. You can do different variations on chess and you can also play human versus human. So you don't need a chess board with you. If you've got your MacBook with you, you can play with the person sitting next you. You can also do human versus computer and reverse the situation there. You can even have a computer versus computer game where they play each other. Now, once you start you can set the number of seconds that the computer thinks per move. The more time you give the computer to think the tougher it's going to be. So you start. Now you just move the pieces as normal. Just drag and drop. Then the computer will make its move and even call it out for you. So you've got this little microphone here and you can even show the moves there so you can see all the different moves. There are a whole bunch of other options as well. So, for instance, you can go into Chess Preferences here and you can set the board to be something different like a metallic board. You can even change it during the game and the pieces as well. Lots of fun options there. You can turn off the speaking moves right there. Even change the voice that the moves are spoken in. You can change the intelligence of the computer right in the middle of the game if you wish. You can even speak your own moves and it will understand you. You don't even have to click anything or hold a key down. It's always listening. I'm going to create a pause hear so it starts listening and speak a move. Pawn E2 to E4. Pawn C7 to C6.There is a bunch of other options as well. For instance you can take back the last move. You can have it show a Hint. You can have it reshow the last move if you missed it. Check this out. You can save a game. So in the middle of a game you can save it and then open that game later on to resume it. So you can have multiple games going at the same time or pause to continue the game another day. Now I mentioned that you can also do multi player and that's what that iCloud sign in was before. If I do New and I choose Game Center Match there, then I hit Start and it allows me to connect with people I'm connected to using Game Center. If you're not familiar with Game Center it is a whole other subject. But it is a nice thing to be able to do. The one last thing I want to show you is that notice that this is a 3D view of a chess board. So you can click and hold any corner of the board and then drag to change the view. You can rotate it all the way around and you can kind of drag it up and down just to get a slightly different view of the board if you want.

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Version 4.4: Chess.com Mac Os App

New features:

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Added two buttons (prev/next) to navigate the history of viewed games.
Gamelist can sort games; thanks to 'SortCache' by Gerd Lorscheid.
New 'Best games window' with:

show all the games matching the current position
can sort results using up to 9 sort criteria; thanks to 'SortCache' by Gerd Lorscheid
'Find Bar' that can be hidden
Automatically computed 'game rating'
customizable layout

Tree Window can show statistics for filtered games
New option 'Include arrow with move highlight', thanks to Mike Curtis

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Language updates: Best chess for mac

Swedish translation (thanks to Hans Eriksson)
German translation
Finnish translation (thanks to Timo Pirinen)

Bug fixes:

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Fix: screentip fixes thanks to Mike Curtis
Fix: base_open_failure
Fix: wrong braces. Thanks to ASM
Fix: Debian Bug #661091: unable to resign in xfcc
Fix: Do not reset the FICS password if we log in as guest
Fix: filter was always reset by a new search (bug#661836)
Fix: F11 to switch fullscreen in docking mode (moved open::book to F6)
Fix: Problems with strings containing ' in Index::FetchInfo
Fix: Add icon for linux systems
Fix typos (Thanks to Nicky Chorley)
Fix: 'Board search' -> 'Search in reference database' -> no filter set in the database switcher (thanks to Gerd Lorscheid)
Roll-back of sc_pos analyze code, that was accidentally removed just prior to the 4.3 release
Fix: Filter init (thanks to Gerd Lorscheid)
Fix: fix of ttk::bindMouseWheel in gamelist.tcl for tk < 8.5.9
Fix: in game.cpp delete tags before NumTags = 0 (avoided memory leaks)
Fix: sc_sort_store bug
Fix: seg fault when filter 0
Fix: avoid unnecessary board flip (thanks to Larry Isaacs)
Fix: crash caused by ::windows::switcher::Open
Fix: 'OUT OF ORDER' issue in Greek translation
Fix: Pgn window recursion
Fix: Added greek language to script in tcl/lang
Fix: Game::GetPartialMoveList returns moves from the actual game position
Fix: sc_base_open open databases in fast mode by default
Fix: ::file::openBaseAsTree unbusyCursor in case of error
Fix: ::file::openBaseAsTree switch back to current base as soon as possible
Fix: the logic of updateBoard is changed to improve responsiveness
Fix: in autoscrollframe scrollbars are created on time 0, otherwise they are not hidden
Fix: the uci command 'isready' is used to improve responsiveness
Fix: dialog box values for 'finishGame' are saved in options.dat
Fix: prevent verbose uci engines to create excessive fileevent and stuck scid
Fix: progress bar in tree window is displayed only when necessary (to maximize speed)
Fix: ::gbrowser::size is stored in options.dat
Fix: createToplevel raise the window if it already exists