Backgammon

Backgammon - Plays and analyzes backgammon games and matches

So far the program is able to play both independent 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, and more.

The program is driven by a command line interface, and displays an ASCII rendition of a board on text-only terminals, but also allows the user to play games and manipulate positions with a GTK+ board window where available. It is extensible on platforms that support Guile.The program currently plays at the level of an advanced to open flight tournament player (depending what parameters are used, it rates between the high 1800s and low 2000s on FIBS, the First Internet Backgammon Server).

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/gnubg.html
Source tarball	ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnubg/gnubg-0.14.3.tar.gz

Version 0.14.3 (beta) released on 2004-05-09

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User reference available from http://www.gnu.org/manual/gnubg/gnubg.html

Support contacts

Announce List	<bug-gnubg@gnu.org>
Bug List	<bug-gnubg@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Joern Thyssen <jth@freeshell.org>
Developers	Gary Wong <gtw@gnu.org> Joern Thyssen <jth@freeshell.org>
Contributors	Joern Thyssen <joern@thyssen.nu> Joseph Heled

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anonymous@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gnubg http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=66
Interfaces	command line, X Window System
Source languages	C, Scheme
Weak prerequisites	readline, gdbm, gtk, guile
Related programs	GNU go, Chess

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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