New WCCC Version of The Baron Released (Plus Polyglot Opening Book)
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:58 am
Richard Pijl has been kind enough to released The Baron 3.43. This is almost identical to the version that played in the 2018 WCCC. Here are Richard’s release notes:
Changes since 3.42:
Bugs solved:
Bugs solved:
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Changes since 3.42:
Bugs solved:
- Pin detection in evaluation only detected close pins.
Handle spaces in the syzygy path
Slightly more restrictive in playing easy moves
Fixed singular extensions bug
Increased search stack size
- Detecting pins to the queen
Evaluation tuning
Better use of time, especially on short time controls
More selective in quiescence
Reduced aspiration window
Bugs solved:
- UCI mode possible from the command prompt
Handling missing dtz files correctly (I hope)
Show Refutations is disabled as I did not have the time yet to look at it.
- Changed scoring on TB hits
Keep probing TB during search on reaching TB positions
Added Syzygy path option to UCI
Ported to Raspberry Pi
Full functionality available in native Linux version
Refactoring of several classes
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