Chess is stuck on the most difficult setting after Big Sur update

I'm going to guess since I'm not in BS at the moment, that this file is locked or corrupt...

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Chess/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Chess.plist

~ tilde indicates hidden Local Library

Apple hid the Users' Library folders...

Method 1:

1. From the Finder, select the Go menu at top of the screen, and choose Go to Folder.
2. In the window that opens, enter ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Chess/Data/Library/Preferences, and click Go.

Apple is not here. This is a users forum. I'm fairly certain Chess is not high on anyone's priority list.

You could try Shredder online for free. It has an "Easy" mode.

http://www.shredderchess.com/play-chess-online.html

Same here. I can beat it easily on easiest difficulty on a Intel Mac running Catalina but not on M1 Mac running Big Sur.

M1 version of Chess also stops Apple Music playing through BT headphones. If you close the chess game but leave Chess app running and switch to another app then music resumes after a while but it's considerably lower quality compared to Apple Music without Chess running at all. I'm pretty sure Chess makes audio switch from AAC to SBC due to lack of resources.

Bugged

Same problem. With the old game, I could beat it at "think ahead 3 moves" but had no chance at "think one second". So I played "think ahead 3 moves" and sometimes sandbagged in the beginning to make the game interesting.

Now with Big Sur - I have no chance no matter where the slider is set, and the computer obviously pauses and thinks a lot at like move #3 and from then on. It is useless until they update it.

jmcalli wrote:

Not a peep from Apple.

Apple is not here. This is a user forum.

You can send a bug report from the feedback page.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

I have experienced "upgrades" & "updates" from Sierra, to Mojave, Catalina and then to Big Sur. There was never any problem. So, I have developed a sort of liking to Apple... that it's a dependable & foolproof product. But, now I wonder why they are not taking cognisance of our problem. Let's keep fingers crossed.

I sincerely hope they sort out the problem with Chess game.

& BTW are you experiencing another lacuna. Earlier, if we select multiple files in a folder and click "Rename" , we could see "Rename N files?" (where N is the number of files. This feature was very handy. Now, after Bigsur 11.1, we simple see "Rename" . The number of files option is missing.

Hope, Apple takes care of all these problems.

I have seen the same problem. I really liked the chess program before this issue occurred. Now it is ridiculous.

Sorry, will boot into BS one of these days & take a look.

Sry, but has there been a solution for this? I thought it was just me being bad at chess but is the game really bugged?

It exists for me also, did not find a workaround. :(

Apple support had the standard, routine rigmarole. Go to safemode, open chess again etc, etc, etc.