History

The Baron has been released several times. And every time I hope it became stronger again. One thing that is true for all versions is that I solved problems, bugs, errors etc. Also true for all versions is that I added more knowledge. For details on the changes I refer to the appropriate file in the baron distribution. This place is only indicating the really big things that changed. Things that you can notice when using the Baron.

The main changes and release dates for each version are listed below.

Version	Release Date	Main changes
2.23	2009-01-30	FRC version released
2.23	2008-07-26	Many changes in Evaluation LMR introduced
1.8.1	2006-05-10	Many changes in Evaluation Changes to search extensions Removed a hashtable bug
1.7.0	2005-08-25	Linux version available Additional DLL required to run the Baron. It is provided in the distribution.
1.6.1	2005-06-12	Deflected knight evaluation should make it easier to spot if a knight can still prevent a pawn from promoting
1.6.0	2005-03-13	Supports 6-men EGTB’s
1.5.0	2004-10-25	Checking moves are considered in quiescense search, making the Baron tactically stronger
1.4.0	2004-08-03	Added the possibility to have comments in the configuration file
1.3.0	2004-04-26	Added easy-move
1.2.1	2004-03-24
1.2.0	2004-02-16	Configurable resign score Variants 3check and nocastle are supported (in the Chess960 version) Position learning Many new bugs (solved in 1.2.1 mostly)
1.0.x	2004-01-25	Chess960 version available Support of the extended level command