@Phoebe - No, I meant the battery would be totally drained. You are correct that a warning would be a way to handle it. But switching it off is fine. They know quite well that using seconds of engine analysis for an entire game is just a gimmick.

But at least my strong metaphor prompted a useful warning from brabo. Continuous analysis can generate dangerous amounts of heat. Most of the danger is to the electronics, not limited to the battery. I have Stockfish on my phone but almost never use it because it quickly gets hot enough to be outside the phone's recommended operating range. Playing apps like Smallfish, Shredder, etc. severely limit the engine time, to save battery I presume, but I notice the phone does not need to get hot for the app to win.

Do you mean that frequent consumption peaks can damage the battery?
Otherwise, a simple warning would suffice.

BTW, do you know why ?
Resource consumption does not seem so huge.

Hi,
Check you are plugged in, Instant Analysis does not work on battery power and gets grayed out. That may be the problem?

GMTonyKosten wrote on 01/30/19 at 09:06:08:


It's formatted as a comment, so it will not interfere with the normal workings for software unfamiliar with it. I doubt anything is supporting actually interpreting it at this point though as it appears to be a new "embedded command" format.

Looking at the last set of PGN files I received, at the beginning is a new tag followed by lots of numbers, like:

{[%evp 0,96,30,30,22,1,30,2,2,-9,-3,-44,23,23,21,32,41,37,44,23,22,18,26,11,22,
-4,0,-1,8,7,7,14,9,5,16,8,38,16,22,19,25,54,19,19,22,22,22,20,20,20,24,-18,24,
-53,-53,-61,-61,-56,-23,-20,41,41,39,39,35,30,44,44,33,50,70,70,75,75,75,75,75,
56,60,59,62,56,68,56,50,48,48,40,46,60,49,30,48,47,47,59,46,56,57]} 

I assume ChessBase 15 generates this when it quickly analyses games when you open them. However, is this a standard PGN code, can other chess programs read it?

JFugre wrote on 01/22/19 at 22:07:47:

Yes, this is really annoying, all the database and game windows start out covering the whole screen and I have to adjust them, but this is forgotten the next time I open ChessBase 15 and I have to resize them again.

GMTonyKosten wrote on 01/20/19 at 11:09:35:

Actually, it works OK after restarting Windows, although the notations are difficult to see - probably a question of altering the font colours.