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Subject: Re: Wac or Wacnew?

Author: Pallav Nawani

Date: 12:24:51 10/11/04

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On October 11, 2004 at 15:17:20, Uri Blass wrote:

>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.
>

I see. I thought that there could be more than one solution to WAC problems and
my engine is finding one solution in 1 second searches and another in 10 second
searches. But you are right, I will look at the games which were not solved in
10 seconds.

Pallav





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