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In article <1992Jun9.213619.520@access.usask.ca>, philip@skorpio.usask.ca (Tim Philip) writes:
>	I've been playing Gnuchess 4.0 through Xboard for almost a week
>	now, and I've found that it slows down my machine tremendously.
>	I'm running on a DEC5000 all by myself, and I'm not playing
>	with any of the special options.  Has anyone else had this 
>	problem, or have I done something wrong somewhere?
>
>	Tim.

I responded via mail, but then thought perhaps I should post.

xboard turns on the option that tells gnuchess to think on your time.  (Or more
precisely, it turns *off* the option that tells it *not* to think on your time,
which is on by default.)  Thus gnuchess will consume CPU time constantly after
it gets out of its book, even if it's your move.  You can change this by
removing the string "easy\n" from xboard's initString resource, either when
building the program or by setting it in your .Xdefaults file.

	--Tim Mann