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GNU Backgammon
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Introduction to GNU
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Features in 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
back games and tournament matches,
evaluate and roll out positions, tune its own evaluation functions using
either TD or
supervised training, maintain databases of positions for training and other
purposes,
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It is driven by
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displays an ASCII rendition
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also allows the user to play games and manipulate positions with a
GTK+
board
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where available.
It is extensible on platforms which support
Guile and/or Python.
It currently plays at about the level
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tournament player (depending on
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recent
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FIBS, the First Internet Backgammon
Server -- at its best, it is in the top 5 of over 6000 rated
players there) and is gradually improving;
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be somewhat stronger than this when released. GNU Backgammon can be
played at numerous other online backgammon servers.
Features in
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The following features
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and/or
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Tournament match and money session cube handling
A command line interface (with full command editing features if GNU
readline is available) that lets you play matches and sessions against
gnubg.
Support
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a rough ASCII representation of a board on text terminals. For the
GTK+ interface both 2D and 3D
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Functions
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search depths.
Neural net functions for giving cubeless evaluations of all other
contact and race positions.
Support for both 1-sided and 2-sided bearoff databases:
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bearoff database for 15 chequers on the first 6 points and optional
2-sided database kept in
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databases stored on disk.
Automated rollouts of positions, with lookahead and race

variance
reduction where appropriate. Rollouts may also be extended.
Both TD(0) and supervised training of neural net weights.
Position databases for supervised training (if
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available).
Loading
backgammon book and saving .sgf games and matches (.sgf files are in the
Smart Game Format).
Exporting games and matches to HTML, LaTeX, .mat, PDF, PNG, PostScript
and 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
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matches (both native inside gnubg and externally using relational
databases
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Native language support; 10 languages complete or in progress:
(cs_CZ, da_DK, en_GB; en_US, fr_FR, de_DE, is_IS,
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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
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is available. Do
not expect this code to be stable; it will generally
include both more features and more
backgammon line bugs than the main pre-release
version.
Binary 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
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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
backgammon tournament 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.
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