ExaChess for Mac

ExaChess is a powerful, full-featured chess-database program for the Macintosh. It can handle a database of numerous master games, offer as a chessboard to play with video games, and be utilized as a tool to record as well as annotate your own video games, to play games versus the computer, or to play perfect endgames.

• Direct assistance (without conversion) of PGN, ChessBase (CBF), and NICBase databases, in addition to ExaChess's own data source formats.
• Search throughout any kind of variety of data sources or simply a solitary database data by gamer name, occasion, year, result, ECO code, opening name, setting, partial setting, product, unique game features, or any mix of these.
• Resizable, adjustable 2-D color board with smooth animation.
• Versatile game parser that takes care of free-form message input, both algebraic and detailed, including action as well as setting analyses, variations and also message comments.
• Records full tree of moves. Switch to variation or go back to major line.
• Shows opening tree (following actions for any type of opening up placement) with stats from the data source. Quickly locate matching video games in data source for any type of employment opportunity.
• Sustains play against exterior 'chess engines' or versus the database using the UCI procedure or Apple Events, including Fruit 2.1 (provided), ZZZZZZ (provided), Hiarcs, Crafty, GnuChess, as well as MacChess. Sustains automated comment of chess video games through the chess engines.