SERETNY@HARTFORD.BITNET (An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind) (02/07/90)
I can recommend: Sargon IV (the best for the Macintosh so far) Chessmaster 2000 (pretty old, now, but it plays a strong game) (the sequel, Chessmaster 2100 MAY be available for the Mac) Sargon has a nice interface, lets you draw your own pieces, and has both 3-d and the normal overhead boards. Colour is used when run on a Mac II, and the game strategy is rated significantly higher than Chessmaster 2000. The game also has about 100 famous games in a little database, as well several classic endgame and strategy examples. If you're also interested in Go, I recommend Nemesis Go Master, which plays the strongest game for a Macintosh program so far (7 kyu, I believe), and Go by Infinity Software, which isn't as strong, but has lots of features & a nice user interface (lets you play over the modem with a buddy) and has extensive "algorithm" feedback, so the user gets a good feel as to WHY the computer moved the way it did. All of the game's weights are configurable. Renmhir