Hey everyone,
I just purchased a new Ibook, and I figured there would be some decent chess software out there for Mac. Well, I bought and downloaded Hiarcs and Sigma chess, but I can't set the software at a level high enough. I'm only rated about 1200, and I'm beating the program when it's set at 2100-2400. In fact, when it's set at 2400, a dialog box pops up saying that my computer isn't fast enought to play at that strength. What a waste of $60! I thought about buying Chessmaster, but you have to have the cd with you at all times to play a game. Can anyone suggest some solution? I can't believe there isn't a relatively simple way to play chess on the Mac.
Thanks,
Scott
I've got Hiarcs on my Palm Tungsten and its pretty good ... highest rating far too good for me and lots of facilities as well ...
good buy at $30
There's another recent thread I started - 'computers for handheld' that has some other alternatives suggest
Have you asked Hiarcs support team on email for help ? They were very responsive to a couple of queries I had
Ian
Originally posted by smrex13Something sounds amiss here. The Ibook is not slow enough for anything with Hiarcs' programming to weaker than 1200.
I just purchased a new Ibook, [snip] when it's set at 2400, a dialog box pops up saying that my computer isn't fast enought to play at that strength. What a waste of $60!
My Chessmaster 2100 running on a 385 with 1 MB of RAM played at a strength above 2000, and nothing ever made by Hiarcs has failed to be stronger than that. I strongly suspect there is a terrible user error that you have not mentioned in this thread.