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Winner of Apple Design Award! Visually and technically stunning, Big Bang Chess is the start of a whole new universe of casual gaming. Featuring incredibly tight integration with Apple technologies, Big Bang Chess lets you enjoy a casual game within the context of all the great iApps that make using Mac OS X such a pleasure. Note: This is one part of a suite of new games, with your purchase you'll receive all the Big Bang Board Games (Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Reversi, Mancala, 4-in-a-Row and TicTacToe.) See the web site for more details.
What's new in this version:
Update for the registration system.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
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what a mess! 
- Version: 2.3.4, 3/27/2006 03:25PM PST
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zerozeroisland
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- what a mess!
Indeed - Version: 2.0.2, 10/25/2004 03:41AM PST
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squigles
iGreg I for one had the free version, and I am more than willing to pay the $24 for the full set of board games. Superb graphics the kids love the little man sitting on the cloud. Checkers and Backgammon too :-) it's not just $24 for Chess alone you get all the games. $24 = £13.55 = €19.03 now that's a very reasonable price in any currency.
Ah, I still have the 1.21. version. - Version: 2.0.2, 10/22/2004 06:55PM PST
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iGreg
Luckily, I saved the original archive of v. 1.21 and can go back to that for now. Another possible freeware option is Sigma Chess. It has not been updated since early 2003, presumably it is ok with Panther. Freeverse is free to do what it wants, but I never liked it when a company turns a free program into a shareware/commercial product without saying they are contemplating doing that as time goes on. They should have made clear they were considering charging for it as new versions are developed.
They can charge for their chess game if they wish, the question for each user is are they willing to pay for a chess game.
They can charge for their chess game if they wish, the question for each user is are they willing to pay for a chess game.
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- Ah, I still have the 1.21. version. (1 replies)
i downloaded the Big Bang Checkers and Chess, after trying to play the checkers game on my 1GHz powerbook (os x 10.4.5) for a few minutes at awful, awful slow speed i gave up. clicking on the same checker for 5 or 6 seconds before you can finally pick it up, etc. it was like playing checkers in molasses
the problems didn't start until i launched Big Bang Chess. after the annoying countdown for the trial version (complete with a whiny 'aww' when i didnt click 'buy') it immediately crashed on me. everytime i'd relaunch (i only tried it 3 times) i noticed the 'number of launches left in trial period' had reduced. it was counting each individual crash as a successful launch. lovely.
naturally i tossed it and the other big bang products i had D/L'ed in the trash immediately.
BUT THE FUN DOESN"T END THERE...
i am currently running a completely clean install of Tiger on a new drive. it has only been up for a few days and was giving me zero problems. until this big bang chess garbage screwed it up. suddenly Mail.app, IChat.app, Addressbook.app and Adium.app were all dead. they would immediately crash on startup and give the same error that Big Bang Chess was giving in it's crash report:
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x7a8a2400
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...apple.AddressBook.framework 0x93363708 c4_FormatB::Define (int, unsigned char const**) + 212
Gee, isn't that a coincidence.
finally, the only thing that fixed the problem after numerous attempts at trashing prefs, restarting, fixing permissions (took forever because so many of them were messed up suddenly) was replacing the Address Book.app with a clean copy from the hard drive i had just removed. i didn't need to replace the prefs or support files, it looks like it was the application itself that had been mangled.
i gotta say, i'm not a big fan of an overpriced shareware app that behaves more like a Trojan Horse. any application that can do that kind of damage to my Address Book is not coming near any of my machines again. that said, it looks like some people are using and enjoying it without trouble, but like they say, your mileage may vary. mine certainly did.