Stockfish for Mac is a powerful chess analysis app. Play two-player games on the beautiful chess board, or get instant accurate analysis of any game.
Stockfish for Mac has many of the essential features one would expect in a professional chess analysis application:
- Beautiful chess board with PDF graphics; automatically scales to any resolution
- Integrates with the Stockfish chess engine, but is generic enough to interface with any UCI chess engine
- Supports opening, viewing, and saving multi-game PGN files (strips out variations and commentary)
- Automatically detects and loads the right Stockfish binary based on CPU capabilities
- Can automatically adjust number of threads and hash size based on system capabilities
- Supports copying and pasting FEN strings, with validation
Some of the features Stockfish for Mac does not have:
- Chess clocks
- Opening books
- Variations and commentary
- Endgame tablebases
- Set up position
- One player mode
- Skill level adjustment
- etc.
Those features didn't make the 1.0.
Stockfish for Mac is powered by the open-source Stockfish chess engine. This project also uses source code from Tord Romstad's Stockfish for iOS app.
GPL version 3. Please submit pull requests if you make improvements to Stockfish for Mac!