The Sigma Chess Home Page includes download links, an online manual, screen shots, and links to other Macintosh chess sites. You can download Sigma Chess to your Mac simply by clicking on Sigma Chess Download Link . You may also view it on screen in any case. The manual is about 42 pages long. You can start the game as White by dragging a piece forward with your mouse.
Sigma provides realistic sounds of the pieces moving.
There are dozens of other Macintosh chess programs. The Macintosh Chess Software Index is a comprehensive index to Macintosh chess sites on the Web, and Free Macintosh Chess Sites is a good list of downloadable Macintosh chess software. Since Richard sent me this column by e-mail I am reminded once again of what a great little application textSOAP is. It took only seconds to line up Richard's e-mail so that it fit nicely into my AppleWorks document. It has been very interesting to me to see how they can send us back instant information that even includes movies.