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Subject: Re: WAC 230 ..solved by

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 17:05:21 07/08/02

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On July 08, 2002 at 13:29:26, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 07, 2002 at 13:59:38, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On July 07, 2002 at 13:36:40, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On July 07, 2002 at 13:22:56, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>>>Through my years of testing WAC positions, WAC 230 has been the toughest with my
>>>>modified crafty's - my crafty's have never solved it (in a reasonable time)...
>>>>my latest version of modified crafty (so far unreleased) solves is < 1 minute on
>>>>a Dual P4 1.7Ghz
>>>
>>>Anything will solve this if you put the connected passers bonus
>>>high enough.
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>true, But I didn't change the evaluation code - just by changing the search code
>
>What did you change in the search?

added some futility pruning, added some extensions - unfortuantely, this new new
beta doesn't beat my old "released" beta - so I may have broken something
somewhere.




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