Chess (OS X)
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Chess running on OS X Yosemite
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| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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| Stable release | 3.13 / August 23, 2015 |
| Operating system | OS X |
| Type | Video game |
| License | Apple Sample Code License GNU General Public License (Sjeng engine only) |
Chess is a 3D chess game for OS X, developed by Apple Inc. It supports chess variants such as crazyhouse and suicide chess. It originates in OpenStep and Mac OS X 10.2 and is based on open source software. Apple redistributes the source code under its own Apple Sample Code License.[1][2]
Development
The game's front end is a Cocoa application whose drawing code is based on GNOME Chess. It communicates with the Sjeng chess engine which runs in a separate process. In OPENSTEP and OS X up to version 10.2 (Jaguar), Chess used bitmap graphics with a fixed, pseudo-3D perspective and used an early version of GNU Chess as the back-end engine.
Features
Chess can be also played using voice commands which uses OS X's built-in speech recognition capabilities. Games can be logged using the log feature, which can include information such as names, dates, places, types of game and moves made. In OS X Mountain Lion, Chess supports Game Center and in OS X Mavericks there is a voice-over which says "check" after playing the respective move.
Modes
- Regular
- Crazyhouse
- Suicide
- Losers
See also
References
- Weblinks
- ^ "Source code of the latest version". Apple Inc. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
- ^ "Apple Sample Code License". Apple Inc. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
- Books
- LeVitus, Bob (2004). Mac OS X Panther for Dummies. For Dummies. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. pp. 207–8. ISBN 0-7645-4168-4.
External links
Media related to Chess (OS X) at Wikimedia Commons
