Regarding chess engines: Unless you use Wine, VirtualBox or something similar, then the answer is no concerning Houdini and Rybka. You can use Komodo, Stockfish, HIARCS or Shredder.
As for GUIs: There's ChessX, HIARCS Chess Explorer, SCID vs PC (MAC) and I think Shredder comes with a GUI.
Chessbase stuff doesn't work as far as I'm aware, well unless you again use VirtualBox, Parallels or something similar.
Hello
I have a MacBook Pro and wondering if there are any chess programs that are programed for the OS operating system. I know Windows is versatile. Does Houdini, Deep Rybka run on Mac? If not, which ones do run effectively?
Thanks