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In article <2934@tellab5.tellabs.com>, stein@tellabs.com (Peter Stein) writes:
>    *** Serious Bug ***
>    The "easy off" command will lock up the program (no moves can be
>    entered). What is "easy mode" for ? Does it cause "fish moves" to
>    be inserted in an otherwise well played game ?
> 
> 		  Your 2200 fish-at-large, Pete Stein

Not at all.  In easy mode the program does not think on your time.  If
you turn post on you will see the expected line of play.  If easy mode
is off the computer will compute the next move based on what it thinks
is your best reply.  Often the machine is wrong and this computation is
wasted.  However, when correct it gets to answer much more quickly keeping
its clock time to a minimum.  I have always had problems with easy mode
off under System V Unix.  It works until it sees a forced mate at which
time it would usually crash.  So I have gotten into the habit of playing
with it in so called easy mode.  According to the Fidelity manual for
my old Elite chess challanger the easy mode would reduce the rating by
about 125 pts.  I doubt that it really makes this much difference.  I
looked at the code to see if I could spot the problem but I was unable
to discover anything.

I hope this answers the question.

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