Author: Daniel Mehrmannn
Date: 20:01:24 11/25/05
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On November 25, 2005 at 20:08:30, Tord Romstad wrote: >On November 25, 2005 at 19:40:15, Andreas Guettinger wrote: > >>On November 25, 2005 at 19:19:10, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>Scatha is now mature enough to satisfy most of my own chess >>>GUI needs, but it is still far behind the competition. Mac OS X still >>>lacks a free, full-featured and user-friendly chess GUI with a >>>native look and feel, which is a great pity (the best thing we have >>>is probably Jose, but it looks and feels more like a cross-platform >>>Java program compiled for OS X than a native OS X application). >> >>What about Sigma Chess, the GUI Hiarcs 9.6 UCI is connected to ? It comes as a >>registered and a free (light) version. I still find it the best GUI for UCI >>engines on OS X. > >Sigma Chess Lite might be the best free option, but that says more about >the sad state of current OS X chess GUIs than about Sigma Chess. There >are a number of reasons why I don't like Sigma Chess. First of all, >the free version is so crippled that I find it hard to regard it as more >than a trial version of a shareware program. Sigma Chess Lite doesn't >even have an analysis mode, which makes it completely unusable >to me. The GUI is ugly to look at, with the clutter of tiny icons >scattered everywhere (even in the menus!). It has a very Mac OS 9-like >look and feel, which makes it look completely out of place on an >OS X desktop. I also find it extremely annoying that the program uses >a single, non-resizable window with very limited ways to customise the >layout. > >Vektor is much better, but is not free, has a pathetically weak chess >engine, and no UCI support. > >For the record, I am not trying to say that my program is better than either >Sigma Chess or Vektor. As I wrote in the first paragraph above, Scatha >is still far behind the competition. I hope future versions will be better, >though. > >Tord 100% agree with Tord. Scatha is my personal number one GUI for MAC OSX, followed by Shredder. Best, Daniel
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