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WCC Platinum


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
Platinum II
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)
Platinum III
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