Answers.Body: <p>What you want to do is limit the number of cores Stockfish has access to. I'm sure your computer/laptop has more than one core, but if improperly set, a UCI engine can eat up all of your processing power and leave your computer sluggish. There are two ways to fix this.</p>
  
  <p>Arena should have a "Lower than normal process priority" in Engine Management Options. You should check this off.</p>
  
  <p>Also, I know Chessbase lets you allocate a certain amount of cores (or threads) for the engine, and I'm sure Arena does as well. However, I'm not entirely sure how to do it with the specified software.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: While addressing the overheating, this can just be annoying when you only want a 12-13 move depth. I too find this frustrating - if I just make a move, the resulting engine honors the 8 move deep setting. But if I click analyze, it will go for ever! So I'm not sure this really answers teh question.
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Body: <p>I am using <code>Arena</code> with <code>Stockfish-222-64-ja-intel</code>. It thinks about 50 moves deep and heats up my laptop processor. All I was interested in, was a depth of about 12-13 moves and for the best line to be shown on the top. I am not able to find the options to configure the gui is such a manner. Let me know if you have an answer.</p>
  
  <p>Update: I know how to limit the level for computer strength. That's plain - it's <code>Levels&gt;&gt;Adjust&gt;&gt;Fixed Search Depth&gt;&gt;8 half moves</code>. The problem still persists though. When I click the <code>Analyze</code> button, the computer starts thinking really deep (and yes, the heating problem is a bit irritating and drains the battery).</p>
  
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Comments.Text: `8 half moves` means from 8 moves for each side. if you want 12-13 moves, reduces it to Levels>>Adjust>>Fixed Search Depth>>`6 half moves`.
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Title: How to limit the depth of analysis in Arena?
ThreadText: # How to limit the depth of analysis in Arena?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-08-25)
  
  I am using `Arena` with `Stockfish-222-64-ja-intel`. It thinks about 50 moves deep and heats up my laptop processor. All I was interested in, was a depth of about 12-13 moves and for the best line to be shown on the top. I am not able to find the options to configure the gui is such a manner. Let me know if you have an answer.
  
  Update: I know how to limit the level for computer strength. That's plain - it's `Levels>>Adjust>>Fixed Search Depth>>8 half moves`. The problem still persists though. When I click the `Analyze` button, the computer starts thinking really deep (and yes, the heating problem is a bit irritating and drains the battery).
  
  **Tags:** analysis, stockfish
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: `8 half moves` means from 8 moves for each side. if you want 12-13 moves, reduces it to Levels>>Adjust>>Fixed Search Depth>>`6 half moves`.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2013-10-18. Score: 1
  
  What you want to do is limit the number of cores Stockfish has access to. I'm sure your computer/laptop has more than one core, but if improperly set, a UCI engine can eat up all of your processing power and leave your computer sluggish. There are two ways to fix this.
  
  Arena should have a "Lower than normal process priority" in Engine Management Options. You should check this off.
  
  Also, I know Chessbase lets you allocate a certain amount of cores (or threads) for the engine, and I'm sure Arena does as well. However, I'm not entirely sure how to do it with the specified software.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: While addressing the overheating, this can just be annoying when you only want a 12-13 move depth. I too find this frustrating - if I just make a move, the resulting engine honors the 8 move deep setting. But if I click analyze, it will go for ever! So I'm not sure this really answers teh question.  
  
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