Hi There,
I have faced a similar situation as you sacaric. I got my macbook pro 1 year ago and wanted to have chessbase and fritz on it. I went down the pathway of hiarcs, as well as shredder to play chess with, but for me there was no substitution for fritz.. I love the sparring mode and there is nothing like that with the other programs.
I started first by getting Wine for my mac and ran fritz 12 and fritz 13 in it. It actually works pretty well. Minimally buggy. However, chessbase 12 was impossible. It couldnt perform the basic types of database searches in a reasonable time.
Here is my solution and it works beautifully: Bite the bullet and partition your hard drive using the preinstalled Bootcamp software on your mac. You get two computers in one mac. I put windows 8.1 on my Mac and put chessbase 12, mega database and Fritz 13. They run absolutely flawlessly, because it is effectively a PC. To switch between the operating systems takes less that one minute. Once you have windows installed you little have two computers in one. Good luck!
ChessBase, Fritz & Co. Are programs for Windows but they do also run on Mac computers if you install Windows, which is nowadays easy to do using, for instance, Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMware Fusion. We compare these three alternatives and describe how you can use them to install ChessBase on your Mac. ChessBase Shop Toggle navigation. Windows 7 or higher, Mac OS X (only download) Delivery: Download, Post: Level: Advanced, Tournament player, Professional Add to Cart Similar Products.
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Fritz 16 - He just wants to play!
Fritz 16 is looking forward to playing with you, and you're certain to have a great deal of fun with him too. Tense games and even well-fought victories await you with 'Easy play' and 'Assisted analysis' modes.
Many computers nowadays no longer come with an optical disk drive. That's why nearly all ChessBase products are also available as a digital download. Other than nostalgia, there's little reason to own a physical DVD of any of your favourite ChessBase tools or content these days. Ditching the disk means you don't have to worry about your three-year-old's fingerprints, keeping track of packaging, or finding all your old DVDs when you upgrade your PC. Everything is available in your Shop account.
First, you go to the ChessBase Shop to log in:
The ChessBase Online Shop (click or tap to enlarge)
Click or tap the login link, enter your username (or email) and your password for the shop and hit the red login button. Once you are logged in, you can access your downloads directly. Just click on 'My Downloads' tab:
After logging in 'My Downloads' appears in the menu of the shop
From My Downloads, the list of all your purchased ChessBase products will be displayed.
If your product list is long it might help to sort the list according to product groups by clicking the corresponding tab, e.g. 'Training' or 'Databases':
Databases
If you click or tap on a specific product you see the serial number and the download links for this item.
At the airport, in the hotel or at home on your couch: with the new ChessBase you always have access to the whole ChessBase world: the new ChessBase video library, tactics server, opening training App, the live database with eight million games, Let’s Check and web access to playchess.com
'My Databases' with activation key (will be where you see 'Serialnumber' above) and the corresponding download links
You can install and activate the programs and DVDs on three of your devices. If you buy a new computer (or device) and already reached the maximum number of product installations, deactivate the product on one of your old devices. /sage-math-small-download-mac.html. After that, you can activate the product on your new computer or device.