chess business / commercial software for mac

XChessScribe 1.0 is launched with an aim to effectively and quickly store all of your chess games. Retreive and save your games using algebraic notation via the "virtual keyboard" in the program window!

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

Vektor3 Chess 3.2.2 is quickly becoming one of the most popular card games in the world.

Vektor3 is an award winning chess program for Mac OS X. It's features include a customizable chessboard with multiple piece sets, multiple documents, multithreading, support for variations, annotation editor with text styles, move annotations and diagrams, several playing levels, opening book, game analysis, position editor, PGN import and export, HTML publishing, speech, multiple undo and redo, and HTML help including rules of chess.

Treasure Chess 1.0.0 is a useful game whose goal is to pick up the majority of gems on the board before your opponent does. Much easier and quicker than standard chess, it is fascinating to play. Different scenarios, board sizes, and computer opponents provide endless re-playability.

Players take turns moving any one of their pieces, collecting all the gems that the piece passes over. There is no checkmating. Once a player has collected the majority of the gems available on the board, the game ends. If capturing is enabled in the game settings, a player who captures all his or her opponent's pieces is awarded all the remaining gems on the board.
Treasure Chess features a number of different computer opponents and variety of different scenarios with varying board sizes, pieces, and piece placements. A random placement option ensures that you never play the same game twice. Kids find the game very easy to learn and play, and it helps introduce them to some of the pieces of standard chess.

Major Features:

1. Wide range of computer opponents.
2. Hot-seat play.
3. Variety of scenarios (board sizes, pieces).
4. Optional random piece placement and capturing.
5. True 3D rotatable/resizable board.
6. Color themes.
7. Complete move controls.
8. Hint command.
9. Strategy guide.

Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.5+.
• Intel processor recommended.

Screamer Chess II 2.0b3 brings players interesting moments of playing this functional chess engine that helps to improve their logical thoughts.

Major Features:

1. Fully functional chess engine that plays legal chess including castling, enpassant, and recognized standard drawpositions including draw by 3 fold repetition, draw by insufficient material, draw by 50 move rule.
2. Unlimited move take back. This is ability to take back all moves up to the initial move made by a player or thecomputers.
3. Variable hash table support from 512kb to 40Mb.
4. Intuitive Click and Drag -or- Point and Click piece movement.
5. Fully scriptable interface and support for AppleEvents.
6. Exachess 2.x and Exachess Lite 2.x chess database compatibility. Simply place Screamer or an alias to Screamer in theExachess:Tools:Engines folder and select Screamer in the engines dialog.

Requirements:

• PPC Mac OS 8.6 or higher with CarbonLibor
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

EscherPPC 1.3b1 will make users satisfied because this program has an excellent set of features.

Major Features:

1. Processes incoming files. Escher will sort them, keeping athe subfolder heirarchy of your main Uploads folder. Checks to see if they were previously uploaded. Strips resource forks (depending on file Type code) to preserve space. Provides an easy way for people to see what's new to your server and what is available for free space.
2. Frees up system resources by disconnecting lurkers, ghosts, leeches, and clones. Can also limit the number of people connected at any given time.
3. Keeps track of user activity so you can see how your server is being used.
4. Performs file searches for your users of both online files and offline. Uses a File Index for online files, or can perform "live" searches. Uses a DiskTracker (v1.14) or CDFinder (v2.61) database of removable media (if provided) for offline searches.
5. Gives your server new life by allowing people to play Chess. (with more games in the works)
6. Changes its own password periodically to ensure a hack-free account.
7. Checks for trojan accounts and removes them from your Users folder.
8. Built with speed & size in mind. Along with remoteness. (Escher's user interface is completely through private messages). Written in the C language. Initial setup is fully automated. Leaves a small footprint in RAM.
9. Provides a way for people to communicate with each other (via messages) if they aren't online at the same time.
10. Automated initial setup.
11. Automated aliasing of newly mounted volumes making them accessible to your users. (Uses your offline catalog to determine what should be made available).

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
• Mac OS X 10.3.9
• Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
• Mac OS X 10.0
• Mac OS X 10.1
• Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
• Mac OS X 10.2
• Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
• Mac OS X 10.3
• Mac OS Classic

Big Bang Reversi 2.3.4 is developed as an exciting and simulative 3D game which is developed on the base of the classic game of Reversi! Chess, Checkers, Reversi, 4-in-a-Row, Mancala, Tic-Tac-Toe, and Backgammon in one great package! With this set of Apple Design Award winning games, you'll take advantage of the latest Mac OS X technology to play Solo, LAN or Net games in stunning 3D. OS X 10.3 or later. iApp support, GameSmith support and more When you purchase this game, you get a license that works for all of the Big Bang games!