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GNU Backgammon
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Introduction to GNU Backgammon
Features in GNU Backgammon
Downloading
GNU Backgammon
Documentation and
other resources
Introduction to backgammon online backgammon GNU Backgammon
GNU Backgammon backgammon java (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 backgammon strategy 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, and more. See the following section for a more complete list.
It is driven by a backgammon yahoo command-line interface, and
displays an ASCII rendition of a board on backgammon online text-only terminals, but
also allows the user to play games and manipulate positions with a
GTK+
board window (png 117k) 2004 backgammon edition where available.
It is extensible on platforms which support
Guile backgammon and/or Python.
It currently plays at about the level of a championship flight
tournament player (depending on its parameters and its luck in
recent games, it backgammon backgammon online game rates at around 2000 on
FIBS, online the First Internet Backgammon
Server -- at its best, it is in the backgammon download game top 5 of over 6000 rated
players there) and is gradually improving; it should
be somewhat stronger than this when released. GNU Backgammon can be
played at numerous other online backgammon servers.
Features in GNU Backgammon
The following features can be found in the current prelease 0.14.2
of backgammon online GNU backgammon board set up Backgammon. online Note that some of the features and experimental
and/or in progress:
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 backgammon program and sessions against
gnubg.
Support backgammon tip for either a backgammon backgammon online GTK+ interface with a graphical board window, or
a rough ASCII representation of a 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 net functions for backgammon links giving cubeless evaluations of all other
contact and race positions.
Support for both 1-sided and 2-sided bearoff databases: 1-sided
bearoff database for 15 chequers on the first 6 points and optional
2-sided backgammon motif database kept in memory. Optional larger 1-sided and 2-sided
databases stored on disk.
Automated rollouts of positions, with backgammon online lookahead and race variance
reduction where appropriate. Rollouts may also be 1 3 backgammon checker online chess in set table wooden extended.
Both TD(0) and supervised training of backgammon online neural net weights.
Position databases for supervised training (if GNU dbm is
available).
Loading and 65 backgammon play 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, backgammon .pos, .sgg, .tmg and FIBS "oldmoves"
files.
Scripting ability (if GNU Guile or backgammon msn Python is available).
Automatic and manual annotation (analysis and commentary) of games backgammon money real 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 or in progress:
(cs_CZ, da_DK, en_GB; en_US, fr_FR, 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 backgammon free ware 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 code to be stable; it will generally
include both more features and more bugs than the backgammon winner main pre-release
version.
Binary versions of the pre-releases as well as backgammon line a lot of other stuff
can be found at http://www.gnubg.org.
Documentation and other
resources
The GNU Backgammon manual 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. backgammon boards 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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