Answers.Body: <p>Sadly, yes. There were times I installed Windows just because of playchess.com doesn't support other operation systems. Your options are:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Installing Windows
  
  <ul>
  <li>with <em>boot camp</em></li>
  <li>in a <em>virtual machine</em></li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>Installing a compability layer
  
  <ul>
  <li><em>Wine</em> (free)</li>
  <li><em>Crossover</em> (commercial)</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><strong>Helpful links</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/187359/5-ways-to-run-windows-software-on-a-mac/" rel="nofollow">http://www.howtogeek.com/187359/5-ways-to-run-windows-software-on-a-mac/</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/" rel="nofollow">http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/</a></li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>It's annoying, Chessbase abandoned the Mac sometime ago.</p>
  
  <p>However their web based client works reasonably well as long as you're not playing bullet games:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://play.chessbase.com/js/apps/playchess/" rel="nofollow">http://play.chessbase.com/js/apps/playchess/</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm guessing they're hedging their bets on migrating to web based services so I doubt we'll ever see a Mac client.</p>
  
  <p>The other alternative is using the Windows client through something like Parallels.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Is it possible that world's most famous and most popular chess server <strong>Playchess</strong> is not available in any desktop application for <code>Mac OSX</code>? It is possible to reach it through <code>Deep Fritz</code> for <code>Windows</code>, but what about the <code>Mac</code> users? I know there is a <a href="http://play.chessbase.com/js/apps/playchess/" rel="nofollow">web-client</a>, but frankly, it soo suxx it hurts to even see it, let alone try and use it. Also, I have tried e-mailing them at <a href="http://support@playchess.com" rel="nofollow">support@playchess.com</a> regarding this issue, but the e-mail is broken! They can't even receive an e-mail. So much from a customer support. Is anyone else confronted with this problem, and what is the right way to fight it?</p>
  
Tags: <software><macos>
Title: Playchess client for Mac
ThreadText: # Playchess client for Mac
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-03)
  
  Is it possible that world's most famous and most popular chess server **Playchess** is not available in any desktop application for `Mac OSX`? It is possible to reach it through `Deep Fritz` for `Windows`, but what about the `Mac` users? I know there is a [web-client](http://play.chessbase.com/js/apps/playchess/), but frankly, it soo suxx it hurts to even see it, let alone try and use it. Also, I have tried e-mailing them at [support@playchess.com](http://support@playchess.com) regarding this issue, but the e-mail is broken! They can't even receive an e-mail. So much from a customer support. Is anyone else confronted with this problem, and what is the right way to fight it?
  
  **Tags:** software, macos
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-01-03. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  Sadly, yes. There were times I installed Windows just because of playchess.com doesn't support other operation systems. Your options are:
  
  1. Installing Windows
     * with *boot camp*
     * in a *virtual machine*
  2. Installing a compability layer
     * *Wine* (free)
     * *Crossover* (commercial)
  
  **Helpful links**
  
  * <http://www.howtogeek.com/187359/5-ways-to-run-windows-software-on-a-mac/>
  * <http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/>
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-01-04. Score: 0
  
  It's annoying, Chessbase abandoned the Mac sometime ago.
  
  However their web based client works reasonably well as long as you're not playing bullet games:
  
  <http://play.chessbase.com/js/apps/playchess/>
  
  I'm guessing they're hedging their bets on migrating to web based services so I doubt we'll ever see a Mac client.
  
  The other alternative is using the Windows client through something like Parallels.
  
  
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