Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:05:04 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. > >Uri Might not be a bug either. Might be just a case of right move, wrong reason, and at 10 secs/move, wrong move for right reason. IE a deeper search might produce a different move where a shallow search produced the right move for the wrong reason.
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