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GNU Backgammon Table of Contents Introduction to GNU Backgammon Features in backgammon software GNU Backgammon Downloading GNU Backgammon Documentation and other resources Introduction to GNU Backgammon GNU Backgammon (gnubg) plays and analyses backgammon games and matches. It is currently a work-in-progress. So far it is able to play both independent games and tournament matches, evaluate and backgammon line roll out  positions, tune its own evaluation functions usingeither TD or supervised training, maintain databases of positions for training and other purposes, backgammon and backgammon motif more. See the following section for a more complete list. It is driven by a command-line interface, and displays an backgammon motif play ASCII rendition of a backgammon line board on text-only terminals, but also allows the user to play games and manipulate positions with a GTK+ board window (png 117k) line  where available.It backgammon gambling is extensible on platforms which support Guile and/or Python. It currently plays at about the level of a championship flight tournament player (depending on its parameters backgammon player serious and its luck in recent games, it rates line at  around 2000 onFIBS, the First Internet Backgammon Server -- at its best, it is in the top 5 of over 6000 rated players there) and backgammon line backgammon official rule is gradually improving; it should be somewhat stronger than this when released. GNU Backgammon can be played at backgammon line numerous other online backgammon servers. Features in GNU Backgammon The backgammon free play following features can be found in the current prelease 0.14.2 of GNU Backgammon. Note that some backgammon winning  of the features and experimentaland/or in progress: Tournament match and money session cube handling A command line interface (with full command editing features line if backgammon motif line GNU readline is available) that lets you play matches and sessions against gnubg. Support backgammon line for either a GTK+ interface with a graphical board window, or a rough ASCII representation of a backgammon empire board on text terminals. For the GTK+ interface both 2D and 3D graphics are available. Functions to generate legal moves and evaluate positions at varying search depths. Neural backgammon online yahoo net  functions for giving cubeless evaluations of all othercontact and race positions. Support for both 1-sided and 2-sided bearoff databases: 1-sided bearoff database for 15 chequers on backgammon backgammon line the backgammon program first 6 points and optional 2-sided database kept in memory. Optional larger 1-sided and 2-sided databases stored on disk. Automated rollouts of positions, with lookahead and race variance reduction where appropriate. Rollouts may also backgammon line be extended. Both  backgammon TD(0) and supervised training backgammon com game word yahoo of neural net weights.Position databases for supervised training (if GNU dbm is available). Loading and saving .sgf games and matches (.sgf files backgammon davids are in the Smart Game Format). Exporting games and matches to HTML, LaTeX, .mat, PDF, PNG, PostScript and backgammon game rule plain text formats. Importing .bkg, .mat, .pos, .sgg, .tmg and FIBS "oldmoves" files. Scripting ability (if  GNU Guile or Python is available).Automatic and manual annotation (analysis and commentary) of games and matches. Record keeping of statistics of players in games and matches (both native inside gnubg and externally using relational databases and Python). Native language support; 10 languages complete backgammon program or in progress: (cs_CZ, da_DK, en_GB; en_US, fr_FR, backgammon instructions play de_DE, is_IS, it_IT, ja_JP, and tr_TR) Downloading GNU Backgammon If you can tolerate the rough edges, periodic pre-releases of the source will be made on the alpha.gnu.org FTP server. The current pre-release is 0.14.2. Anonymous CVS access to the very latest code is available. Do not expect this backgammon line code to be stable; it will generally include both more features and more bugs than the main pre-release version. Binary backgammon tip versions of the pre-releases as well as a lot of other stuff can be found at http://www.gnubg.org. Documentation and other resources The GNU Backgammon manual backgammon beginning play strategy tactic winning is available in the distribution, but bear in mind that this manual is still being completed and might not correspond to any particular version of gnubg. Please send comments if you would like to improve or extend the manual. There is also an tutorial avaiable. Bugs, feature requests, patches, etc. should be sent to the gnubg mailing list or submitted using the bug tracker. Additional information may be found at http://www.gnubg.org. Translations of this page: [ English] Return to the GNU Project home page. Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to gnu@gnu.org. There are also other ways to contact the FSF. Please send broken links and other corrections (or suggestions) to webmasters@gnu.org. Please see the Translations README for information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article. Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is preserved. Updated: $Date: 2004/04/06 11:33:08 $ $Author: thyssen $ |
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