I completely agree--crisp, clean, and intuitive. Something like your example would be perfect. Where did that come from, by the way?
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I completely agree--crisp, clean, and intuitive. Something like your example would be perfect. Where did that come from, by the way?
I just noticed that the white knights aren't even facing the right direction.
It just looks that way. Bad rendering. Its actually the ears of the horse, not its snout. This becomes clear if you move the board around. But yeah, still no good.
I see that now. Still, this wouldn't even matter if it had a nice clean 2D interface.
Dang, I remember playing that as a kid! It took a long time for the AI to move, if I remember correctly. Sometimes as much as like a minute or two on our old IBM machine.
I want my childhood back
There haven't been any exciting chess offerings on the Mac App Store lately. I check periodically, but the demand must not be there. There are dozens of chess apps on the iPhone/iPad/iPodTouch app store. Can none of these companies port their chess app to the mac?
No, for OS X there are NOT that many alternatives available. Shredder Chess is the only serious chess software for OS X, and even that one comes with a rather ugly Java interface.
If you want to play against some nicely made chess software, you have to use Windows. Fritz with the Shredder engine, for example.
Ive Chess?
In light of the recent shakeup of Apple's leadership responsibilities that has brought the ascendance of Jony Ive a position in charge of all human interface, I'm curious if this much-forgotten part of OSX will be updated or done away with entirely. Chess according to Ive could be an exciting possibility. If he's too busy to get to it, he might just have it cut out like a cancer.
Thoughts?
In light of the recent shakeup of Apple's leadership responsibilities that has brought the ascendance of Jony Ive a position in charge of all human interface, I'm curious if this much-forgotten part of OSX will be updated or done away with entirely. Chess according to Ive could be an exciting possibility. If he's too busy to get to it, he might just have it cut out like a cancer.
Thoughts?
I deleted Apple's chess game from my system, was pretty lame looking. I had Big Bang Chess from an older OS (Tiger I believe) that I copied over to my new Macbook (Lion) and it works okay with that OS, though I don't often use it.
Nothing spectacular but better than the one that came with Lion. Try searching Big Bang Chess and see if you can download.
Nothing spectacular but better than the one that came with Lion. Try searching Big Bang Chess and see if you can download.
Might be a nice project for me as a beginning developer, but I think I'm going to hit a big road block when designing the computer AI, because I'm pretty bad at chess myself.
I'm not sure you'd need to be a grand master to design an adequate UI.
I'm just looking for something:
clean
simple
minimalist
not something:
skeuomorphic
"look at me"
cheesy
trying too hard
I think you should try it if you're up for a challenge. You don't even need to develop the chess engine; you can link the interface to remote engines.
mac chess CHEATS
okay playing a game of chess on the mac chess hardest difficulty and am setting myself up to win . i believe that mac knew it was about to lose and wouldn't let me take my move although it was 100.0% legit i try for 5 min and nothing happens i then ask for a hint in which it tell me to take one of its pieces but in doing so it would take my piece and this was the only move i was allowed to make
okay playing a game of chess on the mac chess hardest difficulty and am setting myself up to win . i believe that mac knew it was about to lose and wouldn't let me take my move although it was 100.0% legit i try for 5 min and nothing happens i then ask for a hint in which it tell me to take one of its pieces but in doing so it would take my piece and this was the only move i was allowed to make
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I just found EG Chess on the Mac App store for £0.99 - it offers a simple 2 local player 2D option. Just what I was looking for.
I just found EG Chess on the Mac App store for £0.99 - it offers a simple 2 local player 2D option. Just what I was looking for.
Thanks, had quite a laugh reading this.
Love how we are in 2018 and have a thread dating back to 2011 discussing how Chess looked dated back then. Well 6-7 years after and nothing have changed, they could at least have tied the voice command to Siri so that it would be like playing against her.
Hope that we could see apple make an updated app, improving the design, voice commands and such things. or just scrap it from the next version of MacOS