Hi Matt,

GNU Chess 6 uses 100% CPU, it is normal behaviour. Since it is expected to
be playing most of the time, this should not be a big issue. Anyway,
decreasing the CPU usage when the program is in "standby" is certainly an
improvement we should address.

Thanks for your interest.
Antonio Ceballos


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Alexander Maryanovsky <msa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> It seems that regardless of the way I run GNU chess, it consumes 100% CPU
> time, even before any commands are issued.
> Examples I've tried that all cause this behaviour:
> ./gnuchess
> ./gnuchess --easy
> ./gnuchess --uci
>
> After any of the above, "top" shows gnuchess running at 100% CPU right
> away (without entering any commands).
>
> [~/gnuchess/bin] ./gnuchess --version
> GNU Chess 6.0.2
> [~/gnuchess/bin] uname -a
> Darwin Alexanders-MacBook-Air.local 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0:
> Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>
> Please let me know if you need more information.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander (aka Sasha) Maryanovsky.
>
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