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It's barely 5 megabytes.. and it's probably not connecting to anything.

The protections for pre-installed apps help to make sure nothing else tampers with them, e.g. injecting some malware, but I'm sure you can remove those protections and reclaim the 5 MB if you really wanted to.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...

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Chess was given as an example of the ridiculous situation that not even a game can be removed by default. There are a host of other larger apps I would like to remove such as Home, Maps, News, Books, FaceTime, Messages and Mail. I never use any of them and would prefer they were gone from my computer.

Disabling system integrity protection to uninstall them should not be required and I'm guessing wouldn't be a long term solution anyways because likely they would reappear when upgrading macOS versions. There is also the issue of why does chess need greater protection from being tampered with than say Apple Pages.

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