I would like to play chess with my friend on broadband. He has a Dell
computer and DSL. I have a Macintosh (OSX) and cable (Comcast). Is
there software available that will do this. I have Chessmaster 9000
and it says NO cross platform!

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Request for Question Clarification by efn-ga on 26 Mar 2005 18:14 PST

Glyph Chess looks like it should work.  It's free.

http://www.tabberer.com/sandyknoll/more/chess/

Another possibility is to install suitable client software on each
computer and play through a server.  This page on the Chessopolis
website lists several servers and clients.  Some are free, others are
not.

http://www.chessopolis.com/online.htm

Does either of these approaches work for you?

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Clarification of Question by teachjb-ga on 26 Mar 2005 19:33 PST

Excellent work! They are both very good suggestions and they are
exactly what I wanted. And they are very complete

Hi teachjb,

I'm glad to hear my suggestions were helpful.  I hesitated to post an
answer because I don't have a Macintosh with which to test.  I'll
repeat the suggestions here (slightly edited) to get them in the
Answer space.

Glyph Chess looks like it should work.  It's free.

http://www.tabberer.com/sandyknoll/more/chess/

Another possibility is to install suitable client software on each
computer and play through a server.  This page on the Chessopolis
website lists several servers and clients.  The server sites also
provide client software or refer you to sources for it.  Some servers
are free, others are
not.

http://www.chessopolis.com/online.htm

Thanks,

--efn

games.yahoo.com

Both of you sign up for yahoo and install Java (most browsers already
have this) and you can create your own games.

This is how I play online.