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Subject: Re: Wac or Wacnew?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:17:20 10/11/04

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On October 11, 2004 at 14:55:14, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>
>I was testing new version of my engine on WAC and I got a surprise:
>Natwarlal scores 263/300 in 1 second searches and 253/300 in 10 second searches!
>I am using 1.4Ghz athlon.
>
>I have read on ICC people talking about WAC busts. Are there any wrong solutions
>in the WAC test suite? Should I switch to WACnew (assuming that it is a
>corrected version of WAC)?
>
>Best regards,
>Pallav

There are cases when there is more than one solution and this is the reason for
wacnew but if your engine scored less in WAC in 10 second search it probably has
a bug and you should look at the positions it solved in 1 second and did not
solve in 10 seconds in order to detect the bug.

Uri



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