Babaschess Alternatives For Mac
Free Internet Chess Server (FICS), which can be found at, is a great way to play chess online for free. Besides being free, another great thing about FICS is the presence of a huge community, so that you’ll always have someone within your playing level to start a game with.
It is also highly moderated by system and human moderators so that trolls and cheaters are quickly identified and acted upon accordingly. I used to connect to FICS via Winboard or BabasChess on my Windows machine. But now that I’m on a Mac (specifically on an Intel, Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Macbook Pro 13″ Early 2011), these two programs don’t just seem to work.
Good thing I stumbled upon a comment from one user in the about. So when I did install it, it was actually like BabasChess for Mac. So thanks to the developers of this program, now I can enjoy playing at FICS natively on my Mac.
This member would like chess.com to document some browser configurations that they test with. Particularly, I would like documentation of extensions/plugins that are known to be incompatible. I understand that many people only use one browser. I use three: 1. Firefox, which I used to use solely and still use for most of my day-to-day browsing 2.
Chrome, which is my 'chess' browser and the first one I got to work with V3, not without struggle and no help at all from chess.com support (granted, 'The problem must be at your end' was correct, but they didn't extend from that to say, 'If you have newly installed the browser, check that it didn't pick up any extensions from a previous installation or equivalents in your default browser.' In sheer frustration (V3 was unusable at the time, and I swapped between two browsers and V2 and V3 in each to get everything I needed to do done) I closed a premium account. And yeah, I'm back.
I missed the social activity and my online friends. But browser support is a continuing weakness for chess.com 3. Safari I use when I simply have to have a wide-open Javascript-enabled block-nothing browser. And I try to use it as little as possible and reset it by clearing cache, history, cookies, you-name-it practically every time I shut it down.
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I suggest to chess.com that the browsers they must support on desktops are: 1. IE/Edge as the default browser for MS Windows 2. Safari as the default browser for OS X/MacOS 3. Firefox as the most venerable of the 'alternate' browsers 4.
Chrome, as it has substantial 'market' share (if you can have 'market' share for something free) In particular, if someone has a regular browser that they use but are having trouble with chess.com, one of the browsers supplied other than by the OS vendors is a reasonable choice to make, if a few 'known good' configurations are carefully documented. The two obvious canidates for 'Get it working with a configuration we support, then if you wish you can work out over time how to make your regular browser work' are Chrome and Firefox. They run on Windows, OS X/MacOS and Linux.
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At one time I used all three operating systems daily and used Firefox as it was (back then) possibly the only browser that supported all three. I am cognizant that Opera is still alive and has its fans; Bravo may be an option in the future, but for now, the mainstream four (five) are very definitely IE/Edge, Safari, Firefox and Chrome. I'm ignoring mobile devices as my 'smart' phone is not capable enough to access chess.com via any browser I've tried yet, but I haven't tried seriously. I'm not interested. There is too much of the site that is wholly unavailable via the version of the Android app I have, which is the latest I can get. Whether or not there are newer versions for later devices and newer versions of Android I don't know. Best to all, Giles.
I'm ignoring mobile devices as my 'smart' phone is not capable enough to access chess.com via any browser I've tried yet, but I haven't tried seriously. Bookmarks do not save in vlc for mac windows 10. I'm not interested. There is too much of the site that is wholly unavailable via the version of the Android app I have, which is the latest I can get. Whether or not there are newer versions for later devices and newer versions of Android I don't know. Best to all, Giles My default mobile browser on my phone (Samsung Galaxy 6) works pretty well on the mobile version of the website, with the exception of Live (and it used to work really well there, at least for viewing games and chat). I have used Chrome successfully as well but haven't tested more recently. The site also suggests primarily Chrome and then Firefox.
There are so many possible combinations of plugins and add-ons that can impact things, that it is very unlikely they will come up with a set of good plugins/add-ons. Though, if you have any blockers of any kind, that can certainly cause problems if the appropriate things are not white-listed. I think Edge and Safari have both had issues in the past but don't know if that has gotten better or not.