Engines for mac?

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freeindeed
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Engines for mac?

Post by freeindeed » Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:54 pm

Hi, i have a macbook, and want the strongest possible engine for it. There is Shredder & Hiarcs. Rybka is not compatible without technical acrobatics. How about Houdini, Stockfish et al...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions :)
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Re: Engines for mac?

Post by Jeremy Bernstein » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:05 pm

freeindeed wrote:Hi, i have a macbook, and want the strongest possible engine for it. There is Shredder & Hiarcs. Rybka is not compatible without technical acrobatics. How about Houdini, Stockfish et al...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions :)
Stockfish, Komodo and you can compile IvanHoe for Mac, too, which is probably the strongest option, depending on how you define "strong". I do most of my chessing under Parallels with Windows engines, but generally use Shredder and HIARCS if I'm checking something Mac-side.

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Re: Engines for mac?

Post by freeindeed » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:18 pm

I simply want the best silicon 'advice' to analyse my chess games. Which is the best platform to run Stockfish and Ivanhoe on?
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