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3.1
Entering and Annotating Games
3.1.1
Analysis engine
An analysis engine or kibitzer is a chess playing program that runs in the background
and always analyses the current board position. When you install the program you will
normally get Fritz and Crafty to analyse with. You can add more engines, which are
available as stand-alone chess playing programs.
To start an engine you must open a new "pane" in the board
window. This is done with Hom e - De fa ult Kibit ze r. You can also
press Ctrl-K. Finally there is a Ribbon for the engine in the tool bar
(right).
You can add a number of engines and set them to work simultaneously on the
position.
But remember they have to all share the processor power and will therefore not be
able to analyse so deeply.
Keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl-K
Alt-F2
= add new analysis engine.
= start default engine.
Locking an engine to a position
Right -c lic k t he e ngine w indow a nd se le c t Loc k
This will lock the engine to the current position.
You can do this also with a simple Mouse click on the Button in the Engine window.
After that you can move to another position on the board, while the engine continues
working on the original position. You can start a second engine and lock it to a
different position. The only limit to the number of engines running in parallel is
processor power. If you have a multi-processor board each engine can run at 100%
speed and use the full power of a processor. If you run two or more engines on a
single processor ChessBase will divide the processor power equally amongst the
engines.
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