How to play Chess Minimal on Mac

Game summary

Chess Minimal contains all essential parts of good chess game: - Online multiplayer, play Blitz (5m), Rapid (15m) or Classic (30m) match - Global leaderboards, Elo rating system - Private online games with your friend - Local multiplayer on a single device - Game vs AI - Touch support - Beautiful minimal design Chess is the most popular classical game, two-player strategy board game played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 square grid.
First released: Nov 2020

Play Chess Minimal on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Chess Minimal on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Chess Minimal installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Chess Minimal like you would on any PC.
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