Downloading Stockfish

whenever I try and download stockfish from this website it tells me it cannot be run in "DOS mode" I use a MacBook Pro please help

Mabe it can't be run in "MacBook" mode either and they just don't have the correct error message (an interesting oxymoron BTW)

I suggest you use a search engine to find out which chess programs are compatible with your OS.

Wow lol, somebody posted on my topic after a week and a half

thanks Nimzo

First, download the engine direct from stockfish to get the most up to date release.

Here's the link, just scroll down to the mac osx section.

http://stockfishchess.org/download/

I placed the stockfish download folder, and the stockfish opening book folder in a folder I created in mac osx library/application support/stockfish_chess_engine.

Second, stockfish needs a uci compatible gui, (a graphic interface) 

I recommend chessx, it can be downloaded at the following link:

http://chessx.sourceforge.net/?q=node/3

Install it as you would any other application that is downloaded as a dmg.

Dobule click the dmg, run the installer.  It installs in Applications.  

Run the application, and it should automatically load the stockfish engine.  

It's a lot easier than all that terminal garbage I thought I was going to have to go through to get it to run.  

I hope this helps,

-Martin