ExaChess Lite
ExaChess Lite, the free reduced-feature version of
ExaChess, includes the ExaChess Pro full user documentation
and the chess engine ZZZZZZ. It is a Carbon application. It
is currently available only from this site; other sites may
have older versions. The version at this site is
always the most recent one.
ExaChess Pro
ExaChess Pro is not available for general download.
Please try ExaChess Lite as a demo version. If you purchase
ExaChess Pro, you'll be told how to download a copy so you
can use it even before your CD arrives.
The latest version of ExaChess Pro is 3.1.3. If you are a
registered user of ExaChess Pro and don't have the latest
version, contact Exant
Software for download information. If you still have the
download information for the 3.1 or 3.1.2 full version or
update version, just replace "31" or "312" with "313" and
"sit" with "dmg" in the URL to obtain the URL for 3.1.3.
Chess playing programs
The following chess playing programs for the Macintosh
are compatible with ExaChess, that is, they can use ExaChess
as a front end and can act as analysis engines for positions
within ExaChess. In alphabetical order:
- Crafty. Bob Hyatt's freeware program. Version
14.11C is fully compatible with ExaChess. Note that a
number of available Mac versions of Crafty do not work
with ExaChess. Compatible versions are Crafty 14.11C (a
Carbon application), Crafty 14.11B (a Classic
application) and Crafty 11.13. The newest of these
supports the new AppleEvent suite required for analysis
as a game is browsed and game annotation from within
ExaChess.
- Crafty
14.11C from this site (1 MB)
- Source
code for Crafty 14.11C (0.3 MB)
- The Crafty FTP
site has many extras, including very large opening
books, endgame table databases, and full source code
for the latest Unix and Windows versions.
- GnuChessMac. Dan Oetting's cleaned up version
of GnuChess 4 for the Mac. Not updated to support the
latest AppleEvent suite and therefore can't annotate
games from within ExaChess.
- MacChess. Wim Beusekom's freeware chess
program. Only versions 3.0e and 4.0e work with ExaChess;
the 68K version (MacChess 2.5) and the 5.01 version do
not. Not updated to support the latest AppleEvent suite
and therefore can't annotate games from within
ExaChess.
- MacChess
4.0e from this site (453K, PPC only - sit
file)
- MacChess
5.01 from Info-mac (490K, PPC only, English
language version, not ExaChess compatible - hqx
file)
- Screamer. William Bryant's freeware chess
program. Largely compatible with ExaChess. A new version
of Screamer (Screamer
II, a Carbon application) has been promised but
hasn't yet appeared. The Screamer
site is no longer up.
- Sigma Chess. Ole Kjaer Christensen's chess
program. Featuring beautiful graphics and an optional 3D
board, it is a Carbon application available in a freeware
Lite version and a registered version. Version 6.0 is
largely compatible with ExaChess.
- Vanessa Chess. Manfred Schubert's freeware
chess program for Mac OS 8, 9. Largely compatible with
ExaChess. Has an attractive user interface and many
features including support for multiple simultaneous
games and extensive Applescript support.
- Vektor3. Manfred Schubert's shareware chess
program for Mac OS X. Largely compatible with ExaChess.
Similar to Vanessa Chess with attractive user interface
and many features including web publishing and print
publishing.
- ZZZZZZ. An updated version of ZZZZZZ (version
3.6, fully compatible with ExaChess) is included with
ExaChess Lite and ExaChess Pro.
Chess fonts
Various freeware and commercial chess fonts are now
available on the Internet.
- MacChessFonts
is an archive of several freeware fonts from the
Nørresundby Chess Club site, converted to Mac
format. The Nørresundby
Chess Club site is an excellent reference page to
chess fonts available on the Internet, most of which can
be downloaded directly from the site.
- Alpine
Electronics sells the three high quality fonts known
as Hastings, Linares and Zurich.
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