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Subject: Re: WAC is still useful for me anyways !

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:44:22 02/18/05

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On February 18, 2005 at 10:45:00, GeoffW wrote:

>Hi
>
>WAC might not be any challenge to the Crafties of this world but I find it still
>really useful for testing.  Just after reading Dan's post below I had been
>testing a re-writen a section of my code. I was convinced it was OK and bug free
>till I ran WAC at 1 sec per position. The good variety of positions and the
>speedy time per position soon showed up my bug.
>
>Easy test, but can you guess what I had been rewriting and what I had overlooked
>from the position below ?  (9 or so ply down into WAC 115)
>
>[D]5k2/6pp/8/q7/pP5P/P5P1/5P2/4K3 b - b3 0 1
>
>  Geoff


I would suspect your passed pawn race code was broken.  :)  Qxb4 is obvious but
irrelevant as black wins most any way he wants being a queen up...



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