A Fun Way to Burn Up Your CPU

Compiling Stockfish

Go infinite!

The Stockfish chess engine project just switched its GitHub repo from private to public. Guess what this means? Now YOU can pretend to be skilled at using Terminal! For the full effect, switch your Terminal color scheme to “Pro” and hit the full screen button. Behold…

git clone https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish.git
cd Stockfish/src
make profile-build ARCH=osx-x86-64
open stockfish
go infinite

Switch back to Activity Monitor and you’ll see all your CPU cores chewing away at the superbly difficult initial chess position.