How to play Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge on Mac

Game summary

The ultimate game for the budding genius! Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge takes the humour and brilliance of the popular cartoon into the ancient world of the battle board and turns it into a whole new experience. Play as Dexter, Dee Dee, Mandark or Major Glory and match your wits against your opponent to determine who is the true genius! Winning moves are rewarded with funny animations in the style of the cartoon series. Play against your favourite characters or with friends on the multiplayer link! Chess is more fun than ever with Dexter's Laboratory!
First released: Oct 2002

Play Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge 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).

Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge 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 Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge like you would on any PC.
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