Any Xboard tournament managers will work on OS X as they are usually just shell scripts.hgm wrote:OK, I meant xboard. I brought it up because I already know of some people that were able to compile the latest xboard release for Mac.
Why is xboard uncomfortable to use? It is supposed to work the same as WinBoard on Windows, and for me that runs extremely suave. Is it that none of the tournament managers are portable to Mac OS?
I use Xboard mostly because I'm comfortable with using the command line. Other GUIs I've used include:
Sigma Chess -- A solid GUI, but with some limitations that annoy me such as not being scriptable, no GUI book support, and a limit of 19 UCI engines.
Jose -- Works well as a DB, but Scid is better.
Scid -- The best DB I know of, works well and will compile Mac Native.
Glaurung -- Will probably be a good one, but is unfinished.
ExaChess -- A very fast Mac native DB, The latest private betas support UCI engines. The older public version will work with UCI engines installed in Sigma Chess, but has stability issues since 10.2. Keep an eye out for version 4 somewhere around new years (I hope).
Shredder -- Interface is solid, but has fewer features than any of the others.
For engine vs engine, your only choices are Sigma, Glaurung, Exachess and Xboard. For tournaments, only Xboard will do. They all will run matches OK.
One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to save the eval and such to the pgn in Xboard.