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WCC Platinum is the high-end version of the program.
All versions of WCC have the 6-piece perfect
play database, which allows WCC to announce a win and play an ending perfectly
from a distance of 167 plies. Platinum II has the 7- and 8-piece win/loss/draw
databases. Platinum III has the 7- and 8-piece win/loss/draw databases and
the incredible 7-piece perfect play!
Some of the features of the WCC Platinum family:
- A vastly improved search engine with much more efficient
tree pruning. This allows WCC to search more deeply, more quickly, and make
more critical assessments of positions.
- Accelerated database lookup code makes WCC outperform all checkers
programs on the market. The WCC databases are much smaller and are accessed
three to four times faster than those of all other available checkers programs.
This translates into greater playing strength and search depths, and allows
the program to perform well on computers with much less memory.
- A new opening book generated with a learning feature,
which is more effective than dropout expansion since it is flawless, and
not just limited to the search horizon.
- New heuristics enable WCC to see won positions much more quickly
than any program on the market! Thoroughly tested routines have enabled
WCC Platinum to instantly solve difficult 12- and 14-piece positions which
other programs would require hours of searching to solve.
- WCC is only checkers program in the world with Perfect Play
Lookup (PPL) databases (invented by Gil Dodgen and Ed Trice), that allow
the program to play endgames perfectly! These are not the vastly inferior
"conversion" databases. WCC's PPL databases are truly perfect! Click here for an explanation of the difference
between conversion and perfect play databases.
- The coolest, best-designed graphical user interface on the market.
WCC's new speed bar makes using the program a breeze, greatly facilitating
study and analysis.
- Memory optimization. WCC allows the user to have full control
over memory allocation for the databases and hash tables. This will allow
you to fully optimize WCC for maximum performance on your individual computer.
WCC Platinum Specifications
| Version |
Databases |
Disk Space |
Minimum RAM |
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Platinum II
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8-piece database |
4 Gigabytes |
256 Megabytes |
| (111,378,534,401 positions) |
| 7-piece database |
| (19,055,258,760 positions) |
| 2-piece to 6-piece perfect play databases |
| (announces wins from 167 plies away) |
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Platinum III
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7-piece perfect play database |
12 Gigabytes |
256 Megabytes |
| (announces wins from 253 plies away) |
| 8-piece database |
| (111,378,534,401 positions) |
| 7-piece database |
| (19,055,258,760 positions) |
| 2-piece to 6-piece perfect play databases |
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