Stockfish Chess

Name: Stockfish Chess
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Author: Daylen Yang

Powerful Chess Analysis

Only for Mac

Free

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Daylen Yang
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EN
English
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86.7
MB

Mac

Stockfish is a powerful chess analysis app. Play two-player games on the beautiful chess board, or get instant accurate analysis of any game. Stockfish will tell you who's winning and calculate the best move. Features: INTERACTIVE, IMMERSIVE BOARD Stockfish has a gorgeous board that looks fantastic on Retina Displays. It's full of nice touches: when you click or drag a piece, its destination squares are highlighted in yellow, and the best move is shown with a red arrow. Plus, you can go full screen for the most immersive chess experience. TOP-NOTCH CHESS ANALYSIS Analysis is powered by the Stockfish chess engine, the strongest free chess engine in the world. You're getting top-notch analysis that surpasses the strongest human chess grandmasters. ADVANCED FEATURES Stockfish has many enhancements for advanced users. You can browse through multi-game PGN files, copy and paste FEN strings, utilize Syzygy endgame tablebases, and use MultiPV. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE Stockfish is completely free, and the source code is available on our website (stockfishchess.org) under the GPLv3 license.

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Powerful
02/23/2021

keydogg
This is a great app with a powerful chess engine. Two things I'd like to see is the ability to setup custom positions, which is available on the iOS versions fo this app. And when viewing PGN's with vairations, it would be nice to have a UI to choose which variation is next. Currently you have to select the variation in the PGN text field.
Powerful
02/23/2021

keydogg

This is a great app with a powerful chess engine. Two things I'd like to see is the ability to setup custom positions, which is available on the iOS versions fo this app. And when viewing PGN's with vairations, it would be nice to have a UI to choose which variation is next. Currently you have to select the variation in the PGN text field.
Powerful engine, basic interface
Oct 9

Rafowell
Brilliant, but with a basic interface. If you want a free Grandmaster strength chess engine on your Macintosh, this is a good choice. If you want a Grandmaster strength chess engine with more interface options, see the HIARCS website.Several have complained that you can't setup positions for analysis in Stockfish using the mouse, unlike HIARCs and weaker chess software. Stockfish lets you set up positions using FEN (Forsyth–Edwards Notation) by: Edit> Paste FEN. FEN is a text string representation of a chess position. You can learn FEN from the Wikipedia article, construct your FEN string in a text editor, and paste it into Stockfish. If you prefer to set up a position by placing pieces with your mouse, there are many free websites online where you can do that, copy the FEN string below the board, and paste it into Stockfish - Google "FEN chess editor" to find a free FEN generating website you like.
Powerful engine, basic interface
Oct 9

Rafowell

Brilliant, but with a basic interface. If you want a free Grandmaster strength chess engine on your Macintosh, this is a good choice. If you want a Grandmaster strength chess engine with more interface options, see the HIARCS website.Several have complained that you can't setup positions for analysis in Stockfish using the mouse, unlike HIARCs and weaker chess software. Stockfish lets you set up positions using FEN (Forsyth–Edwards Notation) by: Edit> Paste FEN. FEN is a text string representation of a chess position. You can learn FEN from the Wikipedia article, construct your FEN string in a text editor, and paste it into Stockfish. If you prefer to set up a position by placing pieces with your mouse, there are many free websites online where you can do that, copy the FEN string below the board, and paste it into Stockfish - Google "FEN chess editor" to find a free FEN generating website you like.
Flawed.
07/27/2020

ASW927
This app is missing two crucial features. First, there should be a “setup position” option in case you want to analyze a game but dont have the FEN or PGN readily available. Second and more important, there should be an option to stop the analysis after a fixed time - the fact that I have to press go and stop after each move (to avoid arbitrarily long and unnecessary analysis, draining battery and CPU power) is very annoying. It seems logical and simple to have an option where the analysis stops after 10 seconds (or any given time) each move. This app would easily be five stars with those additions.
Flawed.
07/27/2020

ASW927

This app is missing two crucial features. First, there should be a “setup position” option in case you want to analyze a game but dont have the FEN or PGN readily available. Second and more important, there should be an option to stop the analysis after a fixed time - the fact that I have to press go and stop after each move (to avoid arbitrarily long and unnecessary analysis, draining battery and CPU power) is very annoying. It seems logical and simple to have an option where the analysis stops after 10 seconds (or any given time) each move. This app would easily be five stars with those additions.
It's a great engine with a crappy front-end.
08/21/2020

BBThCJS87
Unlike the iPad version, you can't even play against it. Ugh. A minimalist UI isn't a problem in and of itself, but even the functionality that's here is super awkward. It doesn't even show you captured peices. I mean, could you have done even less to make this worthwhile? Probably, but sheese.I can download the engine and a number of other front-ends, but I was hoping for a one click install for a program that did the trick. This doesn't do any tricks except calculate well.
It's a great engine with a crappy front-end.
08/21/2020

BBThCJS87

Unlike the iPad version, you can't even play against it. Ugh. A minimalist UI isn't a problem in and of itself, but even the functionality that's here is super awkward. It doesn't even show you captured peices. I mean, could you have done even less to make this worthwhile? Probably, but sheese.I can download the engine and a number of other front-ends, but I was hoping for a one click install for a program that did the trick. This doesn't do any tricks except calculate well.

- Fixes a bug where PGN files could not be opened

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11/08/2024

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