ANALYZING IN INFINITE MODE Clause Samples

ANALYZING IN INFINITE MODE. Infinite analysis can be called for either in View mode or in Tree mode. Place the cursor at the position you wish to analyze; you have two options further. If you select the Engines | Infinite analysis command in the main menu, or click on the icon in the Engines section on the toolbar, or press the [Spacebar], the program will run the engine that was used the last time. If you select the Engines | Infinite analysis… command in the main menu, or click on the small arrow to the right of the icon in the toolbar and select Infinite analysis… from the drop-down menu, or press [Ctrl] [Spacebar], you will get the Start analysis dialog box with a lot of different settings. Its detailed description is given at the end of this section. Let’s start with the first method, the simplest type of Infinite analysis, which does not require any adjustment. In a few seconds after you pressed the [Spacebar], a window with results of the analysis will appear. The program shows the lines it considers the best, with evaluations and depths of these lines to the left. The upper variation is bold-faced; it is the main one because it is the deepest, and after the analysis is finished, it will be inserted into the notation as a comment. The title bar of the analysis window displays the engine being used, the time spent, the number of the currently calculated move in the list of all the legal moves, the number of legal moves, the currently calculated move, the number of the calculated positions, the number of positions calculated per second, the number of hits to the tablebases, the number of variations in multivariation mode, and (optionally) T (if Consider moves only in tree panel is On) or ^T (if Ignore moves in tree panel is On) (see below for an explanation of these options). T o quickly switch between positions in the analysis lines, use the arrow keys or just click on any move in any line in the analysis window, and the position after this move will appear on the chessboard. Make your move from this position on the board, and the engine will immediately start to analyze it. To control the analysis, use the buttons below the chessboard, toolbar icons and hot-keys. To exit analysis without saving the results, click on the button or press [Esc]. To exit analysis and insert the main line in the notation, click on the button or press the [Spacebar]. If you wish to insert the main line of analysis to the game, but don’t want to stop analysis and close the analysis window, press [Shi...