Looking for a good backgammon game other than gnubg

[mhumm2]

Hi;

The subject says it all. I finally came to the conclusion that gnubg does not provide true random dice rolls! Yes, I know, perception is not reality, but... the number don't lie. The number of times gbubg rolls doubles and captures its opponents pip is way outside 3 standard deviations of probability. If those "convenient" rolls are so far outside normal probability, then how many other rolls are too?

I love BG, but I would really like a graphical game version that's programmed for truly random dice rolls.

[Snowhog]

Re: Looking for a good backgammon game other than gnubg

For what level of difficulty do you have it configured? According the webpage:

GNU Backgammon (gnubg) is for playing and analysing backgammon positions, games and matches. It's based on a neural network. In the past twelve months it has made enormous progress. It currently plays at about the level of a championship flight tournament player. Depending on its parameters and its luck in recent games, it rates from around 1900 to 2000 on FIBS, the First Internet Backgammon Server -- at its strongest, it ranks in the top 5 of over 6000 rated players there) and is gradually improving; it should be somewhat stronger than this when released. Since almost all of the CPU time required during supervised training is spent performing rollouts, and rollouts can easily be performed in parallel, it is hoped that users will be able to pool rollout results and collectively train it to a level stronger than any individual could obtain.

[ardvark71]

Re: Looking for a good backgammon game other than gnubg

Hi....

I was able to find this one, although you may have already tried it.

Regards...