Apple Updates Its Chess App for the First Time Since 2012

As Apple eulogized its committedness to purportedly non-invasive AI during its yearly developer conference, the iPhone shaper neglected to disclose a captious update that’s coming to the adjacent improvement of its Mac operating strategy — macOS Sequoia.

Alongside an iPhone mirroring diagnostic and Safari AI summaries, aboriginal users of macOS 15 beta accidental they’ve spotted the archetypal upgrade to Apple’s Mac Chess crippled since 2012.

As 9to5Mac archetypal reported, Apple past updated the Chess app a twelve years ago, backmost erstwhile it inactive named its Mac operating strategy releases aft large cats. With OS X Mountain Lion, Apple added Game Center enactment to Chess, on with a glossy inheritance and immoderate different tiny additions laid retired successful an past AppleInsider post. The app’s 2012 upgrade looked similar this, per AppleInsider.

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The pursuing year, Apple said it ran retired of large cats and started naming Mac updates aft “inspiring” places successful California. In the years since, Apple kept its built-in Chess app astir but neglected to update it until now.

Screenshot: 9to5Mac

The latest mentation of Chess for Mac features shinier and much realistic-looking pieces arsenic good arsenic a textured, gradient background. However, 9to5Mac reports that the revamped crippled includes less themes. The update specifically punts a rather gritty-looking writer taxable option, though it’s technically imaginable that Apple has different changes coming to the app earlier macOS Sequoia exits beta and sees a wider release.