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Chessmaster 9000 Mac - http://www.feralinteractive.com/?game=chessmaster9k&language=english&section=
[ $40 commercial] Grandmaster strength, many training features. OS X 10.2+ and DVD drive required. Released Dec. 2004.

Crafty 14.11B - http://www.exachess.com/downloads.html
[Freeware] Version of Crafty with code added so that ExaChess can be used as a GUI interface and computer-computer umpire.

Crafty Mac 18.08 text - ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/macintosh/
[Freeware] Master strength chess engine, text interface only. Updated March 2001.

Gambіt 1.01 - http://www.aqueoussoftware.com/gambit/index.lasso
[Shareware $20] Mac OSX Front end to Crafty with PGN browser. Updated 12-13-05.

Glaurung and Scatha - http://www.glaurungchess.com/
[Freeware] UCI GUI with two engines: Glaurung (normal chess), Scatha (Glinski's hexagonal chess), requires OSX 10.3.9+

GNUChess 4.0b5 - ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/game/brd/gnu-chess-40b5.hqx
Freeware download, expert-strength Mac chess program.

HIARCS 10.0 - http://www.hiarcs.com/mac_chess_hiarcs.htm
[Commercial $40] Strongest Macintosh chess program, in UCI engine form for Mac OS/X. Can use endgame tablebases. [Out Dec. 13, 2005]

HIARCS 7.0 - http://www.hiarcs.com/mac_hiarcs.htm
[Commercial - $48] Macintosh OS9/Classic version of a former world champion chess program.

j2chess 2.7 - http://www.j2chess.com/
[Freeware] Simple OS/X chess game / PGN viewer in Java. Updated 27 Nov 2006

MacChess - http://members.aol.com/macchess/
[Freeware] Master strength freeware program, ExaChess compatible, and with English/German/Dutch/Italian versions available.

MacChess - chess on Mac - http://www.internetcontact.be/~macchess/
Lists software for Mac OS X, classic, X11 and pre-OS X. Includes information for compiling and configuring X11 and XBoard based applications.

MacUpdate: ChessKing 1.0 - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/201
ChessKing 1.0 - Challenge a friend to a game of chess.

MacUpdate: ChessMate 6.3.5 - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/202
ChessMate 6.3.5 - Play chess against your computer or friend.

RChess 2.2.3 - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10343
[Freeware] Chess playing program with many easy levels for beginners to win against.

Screamer - http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/game/brd/screamer-chess-57.hqx
[Freeware] Master strength program, also works as ExaChess engine.

Shredder - http://www.shredderchess.com/mac.html
Commercial [ $30-$100] The Macintosh version of the 2005 World Computer Chess Blitz champion. Downloadable Demo, Universal bineary. Updated 2006.


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