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In honor of the 1000th view, I'll update with what ultimately happened. I didn't like any of these programs and ended up waiting until I got back to school to get my university to install Boot Camp for me for free, and then having a friend let me borrow his copy of Chessbase. To those with similar problems, this is the best approach - I'm sorry, but it's true. Hopefully one day Chessbase will write something for OS X, or maybe someone can fix it up for Wine.
But until then, we're all stuck. – Feb 1 '13 at 1:10 •.
I highly recommend ('Shane's Chess Information Database'). Here's a screenshot of the Mac version (more to be found at ): It is completely free, has lots of functionality, and is fast (handles my 5.2M game database quickly and fluidly). I have only used Scid in its linux and windows versions, not the Mac. But from what I understand there are no appreciable differences in the software across these operating systems, and I've certainly never noticed any real differences between the linux and windows versions in my own use. A few notes: 1. Scid cannot open.cbh files directly, but you should be able to use the Chessbase products you've been using to export to PGN, which Scid can then import into databases in its own format.
This doesn't apply to you, but for those who have never owned Chessbase but do have some Chessbase files that they'd like to import into Scid, there is a way to do so without buying any Chessbase products, at least on a PC. The old is now freeware, and can be used to convert Chessbase files to PGN.
(Amazingly, I know of no other free program that can do this; maybe someone else does.) 3. Scid plays very well with chess engines for use in analyzing games. I have Houdini 1.5 (the free version before it went commercial with 2.0), some version of Stockfish (free), and some version of Crafty (free) in use with my Scid. One potential drawback, but only if you're on an older OS X: you can download the Mac version, and it is pointed out there that the executable is available only for Mac OS X 10.5 or later; if you're using an older version, you'll have to build the program from its source code. They have instructions for doing so though, so it might not be too big of an issue anyway. While I'm at it, I'll point out that some other developer made a free android app called, which I have used on my android tablet.
It's scaled down from regular Scid quite a bit, and I've really only used it in a read-only way (data entry's not really fun on a tablet anyway IMO). But I have my big games database synced across devices using dropbox, and it's nice to be able pull up games when I've only got my tablet with me. I'll end by adding that Scid is the only database program I've ever really used, so do know that my recommendation comes without me having much experience with Chessbase or other commercial alternatives to compare it to. But that's also because I've never had any reason to; Scid really is geat, and again, all the software I've mentioned here is completely free. I agree that installing Windows via Bootcamp is a good course of action. You may also want to consider Hiarcs' Mac Chess Explorer: It has many of the same functions as Chessbase, and is from a developer who has an excellent history of supporting his Mac products.
The program works with.pgn files, so being able to use Chessbase via Bootcamp is convenient for converting files from.cbh for.pgn format. Having paid a lot of money for the original Mac version of Chessbase, which was total vaporware, I will never buy another Chessbase product. Frederic Friedel stole my money once. He will not get a chance to do so again.
For native OSX databases you're pretty much limited to SCID and unless you want to go the Parallels route and use windows software from there. You might be able to rig up WINE and run it on the later versions of OSX; not sure, never tried it.
In both of these you'll be missing the high-end features of chess base, such as the opening report. I'm not aware of anything on OSX that opens the.cbh format files. Chessbase got really closed after the older (CB6 and earlier) file format was decoded and distributed. I'm not aware of anyone who has decoded their cbh format. Chessbase, back in the day, tried to create a Mac product, but it was slow, buggy and underfeatured compared to their Windows version, and when it didn't sell well they blamed the Mac user base instead of their own lack of skill for it and vowed never to build another version for the Mac.
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