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Richard Pijl has released a new version of The Baron. You can find out more here:

http://www.chessprogramming.net/new-engine-the-baron/

Steve

Thanks to Richard (and you too Steve). Been looking forward to this for an awfully long time.

Thanks Richard Pijl.

Great!

The newest files in the archive are from early 2012!? Did this version play WSCC/WCCC 2015?

-Max

Where is the "eyeball in the hand" logo?
We can't have a new Baron release without it.

Hi Richard,

I like TheBaron a lot. In the past I had fun in looking the games of your engine and in my Arena develops times I used TheBaron a lot. One of the main engines in animation other programmers and testers / myself.

THANKS for given to us / me your latest version!!

Best
Frank

SzG wrote:I assume it does not come with sources, does it?

Yes, without source code and only Windows binaries.

-Max

Steve Maughan wrote:Richard Pijl has released a new version of The Baron. You can find out more here:
http://www.chessprogramming.net/new-engine-the-baron/
Steve

Thanks Richard,
I hope we can test the version which played on WCCC 2015 soon too

Thanks for hosting it Steve!
As to why it is not on my own site: I have some trouble updating it as I lost my Netobjects installation. Steve already offered to host it when we met in Leiden last week, so that seemed to be the easy solution. I do not rule out that I revive my own site, but it just has no priority at the moment.

As to this version: As has been spotted by some, this is a three year old version of the Baron that I made available for fans of engines with their own character. It is closely related to a version playing at the WCCC 2011 in Tilburg (it is a bit newer than that one, but not much).

The Baron 3.x series is not related in any way to the Baron 2.x. In fact, it started as 'Crashtest Dummy'. When I finally retired the Baron 2.x I renamed crashtest dummy to become the next generation of the Baron. This is a fresh new engine, sharing almost none of the code with the previous generation.

About a general release of the current version (3.39): That will not happen in the near future, but maybe in a couple of years or so. So for now the only way to enjoy that one is to watch the tournaments that I play in, and perhaps a few selected 'basement' tournaments.

Thanks Richard! Its been a long time coming! Looking forward to see how it stacks up to the prior editions! Thx AR