Scid Mac and Stockfish

I have downloaded and got Scid for Mac working.

I have download Stockfish 6 for Mac and the file is unzipped. But don't know what to do next with Stockfish folder of files. There is no dmg file or anything like that to activate it so I can add it to Scid.

I guess there is a simple step here I am missing but I cannot see what it is.

Anyone using Scid for Mac and Stockfish please help.

Thanks,

Hello again, Rory. (Where are all the Mac guys to help out? )

There is no dmg file for the engine itself; a dmg file is not needed.

OK, did you place the Stockfish folder inside the Scid engine folder?

OK, I'm assuming that the Scid for Mac works roughly the same as Scid for Windows (I hope I'm right.) I'm using version 4.3; I'm also assuming no major differences between ver 4.3 and 4.4.

First, open up Scid. Next, go to the "Tools" menu, then the "Analysis engines..." submenu.

There you should see a list of installed engines. You can now edit an existing engine, or if you click on the "New..." button, you can install a new engine.

So, click on "New...", and another box will pop up. Give it a name in the "Name" field.

Now, in the "Command" field, click on the box to the right that has three dots in it, and use the new popup box to navigate to the Stockfish engine file that you want to install. (The engine files should be roughly 250 KB to 300 KB in size.) Click once on the engine file, then click "Open".

In the "Directory" field, there should be a single period. Just leave it there.

Now, you can click on the "Configure UCI engine" button and make configuration changes to the engine as needed. Then click "Save" and exit from all of the boxes. If I haven't left anything out, your Stockfish engine should now be installed.

scid has a hard time recognizing the stockfish binary file (I think it is looking for an .exe), so you might not be able to select it with the '...' option.  I would type the absolute path of the file in the 'command' field.

Something like this:

 /PATH/TO/STOCKFISH/stockfish-6-mac/Mac/stockfish-6-64

I've never used Scid, but I downloaded it just to see if I could figure out how to add an engine . This is how I added Stockfish (and Komodo). 

1. Open Scid

2. Go to Tools, then Analysis Engines

3. Click New (brings up the Configure Engine window)

4. Type any name you want in the name box (probably Stockfish)

5. Click Browse

6. Type stockfish-5-64 into the search box

7. Click stockfish-5-64 then click open (takes you back to Configure Engine)

8. Click OK (takes you back to Analysis Engines window) Stockfish should now be on the list of available engines.

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the help.

If I follow PHudson but still no success what happens is that when I get to Click stockfish-5-64 it is all greyed out and won't accept it. So I am wondering if there is something that I need to do between unzipping the stockfish download and going through the process above. Am I suppose to somehow run the engine first?

I tried both the Stockfish 6 and Stockfish 5 downloads to see that it wasn't a problem with the latest release.

fayfay1, I would like to try your solution but have no idea how to get absolute file path. if it helps the folder stockfish-6-mac is in my Applications folder.

@roryduffy8  Yes, that is the problem I was talking about.  Ok, your path is probally /Applications/stockfish-6-mac/Mac/stockfish-6-64

But try this to find the path:

1. Find and open the Stockfish folder (the one you unzipped when you downloaded it)

2. Open the Mac subfolder

3. Right Click  the "stockfish-6-64"  file and click "Get Info"

4. The path is under the "general" tab where is says "where:" (see picture)

5. Copy that and add "/stockfish-6-64" at the end (no ")

That is the path you need for scids.  Now type that into the command option on scids.  (something like /Applications/stockfish-6-mac/Mac/stockfish-6-64 )

It worked for me!

There were a bunch of files that looked like the Stockfish engines, but they were only 1 KB in size. I hope those weren't the files you were trying to load? The engine files are around 200 KB to 300 KB.

Think I solved it, I used the file path

/Applications/stockfish-6-mac/Mac/stockfish-6-64

as per fayfay1 suggestion and that seems to have worked.

Hurray

@fayfay1 You, sir, are a legend