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Subject: Re: King majority - The Baron

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 10:55:14 05/08/03

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On May 08, 2003 at 05:49:23, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On May 07, 2003 at 22:32:31, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>On May 07, 2003 at 17:46:45, Richard Pijl wrote:
>>
>>>On May 07, 2003 at 04:40:43, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>>
>>>>King majority wins in this game Pitschak - Foerder played in 1930.
>>>>
>>>>[D]1R6/p3k1p1/7p/2b1pP2/P1r3P1/B7/7P/7K w - - 0 1
>>>>
>>>>1.Rc8! Kd6 2.Rxc5! Rxc5 3.h4!+- 1-0
>>>>
>>>>Enrique
>>>
>>>The Baron finds Rc8 in 10 seconds, but it takes much longer to show convincing
>>>scores (AMD MP 2000+, single CPU version):
>>>
>>
>>Hi Richard,
>>
>>Looks like you've been working.  The latest Baron I'm aware of takes over a hour
>>to find Rc8, might've been several hours for a good score.  Did you add specific
>>eval code for this type of position?
>>
>>Will
>
>The last few weeks I've been working a lot on (passed) pawn evaluation and also
>added some more general endgame knowledge. The job is far from finished though
>as I suspect my recent changes may have some negative side effects in game play.
>I hope I get it stable before Leiden ...
>
>I think the 10 seconds for Rc8 might be a little luck though.
>Richard.


No need for modesty here. We are discussing facts :)  From what I've seen of
Baron it is an excellent endgame player, relative to most WB engines...  Coupled
with faster search it could boost its strength a lot, hopefully before Leiden.
Even though the hour glass is speedily running out...

-- Djordje



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