Help with Stockfish 13 UCI engine for Mac

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Bizarrebra

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a terminal geek.

Hi guys!

Can anyone please give me a hand with the Stockfish 13 UCI engine? I'm on a Mac and I use HIARCS Chess Explorer as my chess database tool. Now, I'd like to install the SF13 UCI engine, but in their blog they just point to Homebrew page if you want to install the SF package via terminal. First off, I'm not very savvy with the terminal, and most importantly my laptop is a company laptop, and it seems I don't have writing permissions in some directories where Homebrew is trying to install god knows what. I just want the UCI binary, so that I can add it to my HIARCS Chess Explorer.

Does anybody have it, or would someone be so nice as to get it for me? Again, it's for Mac. Any other ideas are more than welcome, but pretty much the terminal is ruled out because of lack of permissions.

Thanks in advance!

Martin_Stahl
ReeOoh wrote:

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a terminal geek.

Hi guys!

Can anyone please give me a hand with the Stockfish 13 UCI engine? I'm on a Mac and I use HIARCS Chess Explorer as my chess database tool. Now, I'd like to install the SF13 UCI engine, but in their blog they just point to Homebrew page if you want to install the SF package via terminal. First off, I'm not very savy with the terminal, and most importantly my laptop is a company laptop, and it seems I don't have writing permissions in some directories where Homebrew is trying to install god knows what. I just want the UCI binari, so that I can add it to my HIARCS Chess Explorer.

Does anybody have it, or would someone be so nice as to get it for me? Again, it's for Mac. Any other ideas are more than welcome, but pretty much the terminal is rules out because of lack of permissions.

Thanks in advance!

 

The suggestion is to use the app in the app store, which doesn't help with using it in HIRARCS.

 

Bizarrebra

There's a note below that explaining how you can get the standalone engine, but you have to do it via some scripts in Homebrew... I mean, I don't know why they don't just put the engine there for download, just as they do with the Windows and Linux one.

ibrafish

Alas, Apple has been slowly converting their OS X into iOS and making it increasingly difficult to install/use programs outside of the Apple Store. (That's why I stopped using their platform a few years ago.) Homebrew might be the easiest way to go, and I won't be surprised if they make it impossible to use altogether in their next OS iteration.