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will also play stronger. Work your way up!
4. INFO MODE: WATCH THE COMPUTER THINK!
Imagine this: You're playing chess against a friend, and it's his
move. You'd love to know what move he's thinking about, and you'd
really like to get his opinion of the board position. But, of course, you
won't ask—because that's just not done! Well, guess what—when you
play against this chess computer, you can ask anything you want, and
you'll get all the answers! In fact, you can get an incredible amount of
information about the computer's thought process. On request, it will
show you the move it's thinking of, the line of play it expects after that
move, its evaluation of the current board position, how deeply it is
searching, and more. As you can imagine, studying this information can
help you learn so much more about chess!
Using info Mode
How do you access all this game information? By using Info Mode at
any time! If you do this while the computer is thinking, you'll see the
information displays change as the computer considers different moves
and searches deeper!
See "INFO MODE AT A GLANCE!" for a chart summarizing all
the Info Mode displays.
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Game information is divided into four groups, and pressing INFO
cycles from one group to another. The BLACK/+ and WHITE/- keys
can be used to cycle forward and backward respectively the displays
within each of the groups. Press CLEAR to exit Info Mode and go back
to showing the normal chess clock.
After learning about Info Mode, take a look at Section 5.3 for a
description of the Rotating Display feature. Selecting this feature makes
the computer automatically cycle through the requested information in
one-second intervals every time it thinks about its move—you can
actually watch the computer think out loud!
Whenever requested information is not available, the display will
show dashes (---- -).
4.1 Principal Variation
Press INFO the first time to get information on the principal variation
INFO MODE AT A GLANCE!
PRINCIPAL VARIATION INFO:
X1 • Move 1 (predicted line of play)
• Move 2 (predicted line of play)
• Move 3 (predicted line of play)
• Move 4 (predicted line of play)
• Move 5 (predicted line of play)
• Move 6 (predicted line of play)
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^
SEARCH INFO:
x 2 .
Evaluation of current position
2 numbers: Search depth + number
of moves examined so far
Current move under consideration
Positions searched per second
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CHESS CLOCK INFO:
X3
Elapsed time since last move
• Total elapsed time for White
• Total elapsed time for Black
• Remaining time for White*
• Remaining time for Black*
'Blitz/Tournament Levels only
MOVE COUNT INFO:
X4 • Current move number made so far
Moves of the current game
Press
at any time to exit Info Mode.
For more details, see Section 4.
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