Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mountain Lion Edition

Chess

Mountain Lion comes with only one game, but it’s a beauty (Figure 16-10). It’s a traditional chess game played on a gorgeously rendered board with a set of realistic 3-D pieces.

Figure 16-9. To bring your Yahoo or Google calendar into Calendar for free two-way syncing, choose Calendar→Preferences→Accounts. Click the button below the list. Enter your Google or Yahoo address (for example, [e-mail]) and password, as shown here. Click Create.

Playing a Game of Chess

When you launch Chess, you’re presented with a fresh, new game that’s set up in Human vs. Computer mode—meaning that you, the Human (light-colored pieces) get to play against the Computer (your Mac, on the dark side). Drag the chess piece of your choice into position on the board, and the game is afoot.

If you choose Game→New Game, however, you’re offered a pop-up menu with choices like Human vs. Computer, Human vs. Human, and so on. If you switch the pop-up menu to Computer vs. Human, then you and your Mac trade places; the Mac takes the white side of the board and opens the game with the first move, and you play the black side.

Tip

The same New Game dialog box also offers a pop-up menu called Variant, which offers three other chess-like games: Crazyhouse, Suicide, and Losers. The Chess help screens (choose Help→ ...