Computer chess applications that play at the level of a chess master or higher are available on hardware from super-computers to smart phones. Standalone chess-playing machines are also available. Stockfish, GNU Chess, Fruit, and other free open source applications are available for various platforms. Mac OS is a line of operating systems created by Apple Inc. It comes preloaded on all new Macintosh computers, or Macs. All of the recent versions are known as Mac OS X (pronounced Mac O-S Ten), and their specific version names are Lion (released in 2011), Snow Leopard (2009) and Leopard (2007). Mac OS is a line of operating systems created by Apple Inc. It comes preloaded on all new Macintosh computers, or Macs. All of the recent versions are known as Mac OS X (pronounced Mac O-S Ten), and their specific version names are Lion (released in 2011), Snow Leopard (2009) and Leopard (2007).
The time-tested MMORPG
World of Warcraft is an MMORPG, filled with creatures and bosses that you'll have to face. But don't be disheartened, party-up with some friends and explore the mystical realm of Azeroth together.
Oh my Azeroth
World of Warcraft gives you the freedom to explore Azeroth and battle monstrous beasts as you become the champion of the realm.
Dive into World of Warcraft and discover your destiny. With a monthly subscription, you have full access to all the expansions and content that let you become a real citizen of Azeroth. As you battle and conquer you'll be able to purchase items at the auction house, join a guild and socialize in in-game chat.
Embrace the online community with a variety of social features. Quickly party-up with random players or your best friends to complete quests, battle monsters, and gain epic loot. you can also have a variety of interactions with them as you immerse yourself in the role of your character.
While the game makes leveling an uncomfortable experience to newcomers, the large online community is filled with many helpful players. But this is also why you should take advantage of the free trial version that allows you to progress to level 20 before you need to take a subscription. With this, you'll soar to levels as high as 110 and gleam the full taste of Azeroth's wonder.
This massive community is great to join if you're interested in more than just the PvE play mode. The online citizens of Azeroth actively partake in the brutal games of blood found within the arena and many large-scale battlegrounds.
Where can you run this program?
World of Warcraft is available for Mac systems running from OS X 10.12 and Windows 7 64-bit or newer.
Is there a better alternative?
Yes, WoW has started to show it's age. Newer titles, like The Elder Scrolls Online or Final Fantasy Online, offer updated graphics. Both of them have their own strengths.
Our take
World of Warcraft is a fun MMORPG with a long story behind it. This tale provides rich content that you'll be playing through for hours upon hours.
Should you download it?
Yes, there's every reason to give it a shot.
Highs
- Content-rich
- Control your destiny
- Massive world to explore
- Large online community
Lows
- Requires a launcher to download 50GB+
- Subscription required to play
- Broken leveling system
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The best chess playing entity in the world today is almost certainly the computer program 'Rybka,' developed primarily by International Master Vasik Rajlich.
Rybka currently tops all the computer chess rating lists. Since Rybka is pretty clearly stronger than the Deep Fritz program that defeated World Champion Vladimir Kramnik 4-2 last year, there's not much doubt that it is better than any human chess player.
Rybka is available as a plug-in chess engine, which means that you also need to have a chess graphical user interface (GUI) to use it. There are a variety of GUI's available, including the free Arena GUI.
Rybka plays wonderful chess of course. It is free of all the problems that used to plague computer programs–for example it freely sacrifices material for positional compensation. Nevertheless, it's not the program that I prefer, for a couple reasons.
First, it is only available for Windows (and Linux using Wine), and I wanted a program for Mac OS X. The strongest program for Macs is clearly Hiarcs 11, developed by Mark Uniacke. Although Hiarcs 11 seems to be somewhat weaker than Rybka, it is still stronger than Deep Fritz, and any human being.
Most importantly, on Macs, Hiarcs is paired with the very nice chess 'Sigma Chess' GUI. This GUI/engine combination sports the absolutely crucial feature, missing from any version of Rybka, that you can adjust its strength down to any level from world champion to amateur levels as low as 1250 Elo. If you don't know what 1250 Elo means, you're probably an amateur who will lose to a 1250–it's the level amateurs typically reach after playing in tournaments for about one year. (Note: to obtain this feature on the Mac, you'll need to spend $20 to get the 'Pro' version of Sigma Chess, plus $50 for Hiarcs 11. You should also be able to adjust the level of Hiarcs on Windows GUI's like Arena, although I have no personal experience with this.)
Amazingly, at whatever level you choose, Hiarcs plays a very human-like game. Previous computer programs, when weakened, played poorly strategically, but still did not make tactical errors. A weakened Hiarcs will make tactical mistakes that you can take advantage of, and will also play at an appropriate level of strategic understanding, so there is no particular reason to adopt anti-computer approaches when playing against it.
Of course, Hiarcs comes with many other features, including the ability to use it to analyze your games. Most grandmasters use these programs to aid in their training, and Hiarcs is well-known as one of the best engines to use.
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Personally, I also enjoy just watching my Hiarcs 11.2 engine play blitz chess against the 11.1 engine that I previously used. It's like watching a couple world champions duke it out. I think it's worth appreciating, that at least for the game of chess, we now have $50-$70 software running on commodity hardware, that essentially passes the Turing test.
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If you are a beginner, you might be better off choosing the mass-market Chessmaster, which comes packed with a lot of nice tutorials, as well as some very weak opponents to start with. However, I don't like Chessmaster as much as Hiarcs because the weakened opponents in Chessmaster have the strong-tactics weak-strategy characteristics of computer programs that become so tiresome after a while.
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