stockfish

I purchased Hiarcs chess explorer pro and downloaded  stockfish 16. I have installed the stockfish engine using home-brew and want to add the engine to Hiarcs, but can't find the engine through finder on Mac. Does anyone know where home-brew puts the engine and how to integrate into Hiarcs program?

Thanks

Bill

Stockfish is very bad to teach chess. You can try komodo rodent or criter is a strong engine thinking only one strong move ahead

Bill,

I've just succeeded in doing what you wanted.

1. In a terminal window, type the following: brew install stockfish
2. This installs stockfish in a homebrew directory, but there's a link to the executable in /opt/homebrew/bin. However, MacOS wants to hide such directories from the user, so first we need to copy this file to somewhere we can see, such as our documents folder:
cp /opt/homebrew/bin/stockfish ~/Documents
3. Now you can go to the Preferences... menu item in Hiarcs Explorer Pro, and add an engine. Pick stockfish from your Documents folder, and then you are good to go.
4. You will still need to select that engine in the analysis pane, but that's easy. Just click on the hamburger icon on the far right, and you can select stockfish. I have version 16.1, and it works very nicely.