[Veltliner]

We have two pieces of chess software in the bundle that comes with every mac.

1. Chess, with dreary, awful graphics.

2. Big Bang Chess, which can't play an end game. In bad games, when you have the king only left, I can mostly get a tie game because this software can't get the 50 moves rule right (and would play on until the end of the world, moving senselessly over the board).

I have looked around for better chess software, but the graphics in most is just awful.
Anybody knows good chess software with decent graphics?

[cgc]

I used to play Sigma Chess a couple years ago...solid gameplay and decent graphics. Also, ChessMaster 9000 looks spectacular but I haven't played that game in over a decade, it's reputation is that it's solid.

[Veltliner]

Thanks, cgc.

Going to look into these programs.

By the way, the program on the mac is also weird, that if you put too much pressure on a it, it sometimes throws the game prematurely.

[cgc]

You mean Apple's Chess game? I never played it...

[cwkmacuser]

I have. The problem is, it always beats me, even on the lowest experience setting that I can put it on! And I have been playing for years!!!!

[CharlesS]

Why would graphics be a big concern for a chess game, of all things?

[Veltliner]

Originally Posted by CharlesS 

Why would graphics be a big concern for a chess game, of all things?

The nicest thing would be to have a wooden board.

Next best thing is a good 3D representation of the board.

I wouldn't care about those newspaper style graphics. Except when you use a wooden board, move the figures on the wooden board, and look at the screen only for the moves.