Free correspondence chess software for mac

Scid 4.0 is a free chess database application that enables you to maintain a database of chess games, search games by many criteria, view graphical trends, and produce printable reports on players and openings. There are many more features as well, with Scid you can play against various engines, people on Internet (FICS), as well as by correspondence. Multi-language support.

NOTE: Tiger users can build Scid from source, ask in the scid-user list for help.

Major Features:

1. Engine analysis, with the display of up to four best lines
2. Board setup
3. Load/save of Scid bases
4. Opening books
5. Several bases can be opened with the possibility to switch between them
6. Import of PGN files and export of Scid bases to PGN files
7. Game navigation with variations handling (tap and hold generates a right click in PGN window, triggering the same contextual menu as in Scid)
8. Search (position, header, material & patterns). All Scid search features are available.
9. Opening tree (stats related to current opened base)
10. Engine tournament (several engines are available in installation package)
11. Play on internet (freechess.org also known as FICS)
12. Automatic game annotation by engine
13. Novag Citrine external board (trough Bluetooth)

Requirements:

• Pocket PC (Pocket 2002 is not supported) with an ARM processor and a VGA, or a QVGA screen
• ScidPocket requires a lot of memory (if you want to open big databases)
• Highly recommended to close all other applications before running it.

QuicKeys 4.0.3 is known as a powerful macro program that is designed to help you create shortcuts to automate computer tasks. It takes the daily tasks that would normally take you five ... six ... twenty or more steps and turns them into simple one step shortcuts. Automatically insert commonly used blocks of text, move or copy files and folders, launch your favorite web sites, open applications and documents plus so much more. The possibilities are endless; the result is always the same: more work in less time.
Using QuicKeys is easy. Just tell QuicKeys what shortcut you would like to create and then trigger that shortcut with a hot key, toolbar, timer, specified application event or even speech command. Whether you need to create multi-step shortcuts, store or retrieve text and images, reformat text, select menus, run UNIX commands, automate e-mail correspondence or connect to file servers, you can make it happen in a snap with a QuicKeys shortcut.
Even though QuicKeys requires no programming to use it still has incredible power. With QuicKeys advanced Logic

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Some features require an internet connection.
• Some features require an iPhone or iPod Touch with QuicKeys Anywhere app installed.
  

Enhancements: Release notes were unavailable at the time this listing was updated.

Requirements: Mac OS X Server 10.4 or later.

Glyph Chess is a simple chess game that can also be played on a network.
Glyph Chess features a themable board, cross-platform network play and a move recorder.

Main features:
- Theme-able
- Cross-platform network play
- Move recorder

ExaChess 4.0.2 is designed to be a handy, richly-featured chess-database program which can be used for the Macintosh. It can manage a database of millions of master games, serve as a chessboard to play through games, and be used as a tool to record and annotate your own games, to play games against the computer, or to play perfect endgames.

Major Features:

1. Direct support (without conversion) of PGN, ChessBase (CBF), and NICBase databases, as well as ExaChess's own database formats.
2. Search across any number of databases or just a single database file by player name, event, year, result, ECO code, opening name, position, partial position, material, special game features, or any combination of these.
3. Resizable, customizable 2-D color board with smooth animation.
4. Flexible game parser that handles free-form text input, both algebraic and descriptive, including move and position evaluations, variations and text comments.
5. Records full tree of moves. Switch to variation or return to main line.
6. Shows opening tree (next moves for any opening position) with stats from the database. Quickly find matching games in database for any opening position.
7. Supports play against external 'chess engines' or against the database via the UCI protocol or Apple Events, including Fruit 2.1 (supplied), ZZZZZZ (supplied), Hiarcs, Crafty, GnuChess, and MacChess. Supports automatic annotation of chess games via the chess engines.

Chrss is a free and easy to use correspondance chess Dashboard widget by rss service and written in Python using Turbogears.

Enhancements:
- Improved 3D look.
- Better behaviour when user name is unknown (shows link to signup page).
- Fixed link to main-site.