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++BGBlitz 2.0.1 is out ++ BGBlitz 1.7.0 won the
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04/18/06: BGBlitz 2.0.1 has the following
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Many thanks to Alejandro Olivera-Nappa, Brett Yunker,
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Cheat?-page. Will this stop the "BGBlitz is
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A Turkish translation is included. Thanks to ?-zg?�r
Albayrak
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rare circumstances.
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There were some bugs that were very difficult to
find, because they happened rarely and not on my
computer. By including code to catch them since release
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Many thanks to Andreas Schildhauer, Brett Yunker,
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Sabau for their help and suggestions.
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freeze under
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Many thanks to Eric Grundstrom, Guy Petzall, Ingmar
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Radu-Dan Sabau for their help and suggestions.
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In the bear off dialog box the effective pip count is
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Many thanks to Bill Picker, Christian Schmidt, Christian
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to the "Convert File" dialog box. So you can easily
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without the need for further software. msn backgammon In the
"Setup/Setup HTML Generation" dialog box you can adjust
where the html file expects the board graphics. If you
look at the match locally "BGBlitz installation
directory" probably is the most appropriate option. If
you want to publish your match on the web "BGBlitz
website" fits well, but you can select any path you like.
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You can now install new themes comfortably with
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boxes always use "2-ply".
Another whole backgammon game rule bunch of beautiful themes by Radu-Dan
Sabau. I changed the selection of default themes too
include my personal favorites "Three Leathers" and
"Madreperla".
Ctrl/Command-N starts a new Game.
In the "Customize Checker" dialog box you can select
a delay time of 0 milliseconds. This fixes the unusual
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Linux.
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Fixed the help on Windows NT/2K/XP. Browser calls on
NT were different to W98 and naturally rule to play backgammon I tested it on W98
:-(
When using themes the width of the cube was
calculated wrong. This caused that sometimes a checker
could only be moved when you click next to him. This is
fixed now.
As usual some further minor improvements and bug
fixes has been included too.
Many thanks to Ben play backgammon online free Haller, Garry MacDonald, John
Wiltshire, Radu-Dan Sabau, Steven Eakle, Walter Habel and
all of my free yahoo online backgammon translators for their help and suggestions.
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features:
Under "Game/Config Automation" you can select to have
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Support of the GNU-BG Position-ID in the editing
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The tutor free online backgammon game can give you a another try before it
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Some more beautiful themes by Radu-Dan Sabau (Hint:
look at "Three Leathers"!)
Under "Miscellaneous Settings" you can select the
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Hitting the spacebar is the same as undo.
French translation by Radu-Dan Sabau
Spanish translation by Jos?� Manuel Solis
Preisser
And further minor improvements and bug fixes has been
included too
Thanks to Achim M?�ller, David Kinston, Guy Petzall, Jos?�
Manuel Solis Preisser, backgammon board checkers setup Leif Eriksen, Radu-Dan Sabau, Sascha
Muzzarini and William Maslen for their help and
suggestions.
03/09/03: Thanks to Radu, new themes arrived:
a really online backgammon beautiful theme in big size - "Made in
Japan"
a medium theme "Turquoise". Its colors reminds me of
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and Bigger_dot as medium theme - "Big Dot"
All available on the themes
page.
I made recently some experiments with the neural nets.
One of the results is play backgammon online yahoo a net, which wins about 1.5 points
per hundred games (cubeless) instructions to play backgammon against the expert net. On
this level of play this is quite nice. It is the normal
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about 50% slower, so I would recommend a CPU with 400 yahoo backgammon MHz
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Just unzip it in the installation directory (Mac: unzip
anywhere and copy the files in the system/bot/tachiAI
folder in the corresponding folder of the installation
directory). If the installation tournament backgammon succeeds, the files
"ta_05.*" in the folder system/bot/tachiAI/ must be greater
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I would be glad, if I get a little feedback on your
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net compared with the old.
02/27/03: You demanded a big theme? backgammon download free ware Radu did a
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Bigger_dot, my favorite theme
and Alladin another medium theme with oriental
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Radu, thanks for your support!
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BGBlitz has got selectable themes, contributed by Guy
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included in the download, the other could be downloaded
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Sound effects
Italian translation by Radu-Dan Sabau
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Thanks to Andrew Lipscomb, David Kinston, Guy Petzall,
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help and suggestions.
12/11/02: a new match database with 1500 matches
between Snowie 3 and JF put on the download page.
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release:
1.2.0 provides a rollout capability. You can rollout
any positions any number of times, either cubeless or
cubeful to get a better approximation of the *real*
winning probabilities. Cubeless rollouts can be truncated
(i.e. BGBlitz only makes the entered number play backgammon on line of moves and
then evaluates the resulting position). This has two
advantages: the rollouts are faster and the standard
deviation is smaller.
Variance reduction hasn't made it into this release and
follows as soon as possible.
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Using a multiple of 36 as number of rollouts, leads to an
even distribution of the first dice roll. Similar using a
multiple of 1296 distributes the first two dice rolls
evenly.
Adapted to Mac OS X 10.2
Danish translation by S?�ren Pingel Dalsgaard
The "Best Moves" dialog box and the "Eval Position"
remember their position on the screen between
invocations.
command/ctrl-W closes (most) dialog boxes.
command/ctrl-F is a shortcut for "Finish Game".
command/ctrl-R rolls the dice / takes up the dice
during a game.
the nasty bug freezing the game after a double when
the tutor is disabled is fixed.
Some minor improvements and bug fixes has been
included too.
Thanks to Alain Redlinger, Bill T, Hans-Juergen
Schaefer, Peter Green, Radu Sabau, Robert Saltzman, S?�ren
Pingel Dalsgaard and Zeph Bender for their help and
suggestions.
08/27/02: BGBlitz 1.1.0 is the first release with
a feature from the professional version:
A configurable Tutor warns for possible errors in
checker and cube play.
Some minor improvements / bugs fixed
07/20/02: BGBlitz 1.0.6 is a bug fix release:
under certain circumstances, a wrong
Match-Equity-table was loaded, which leads to freezing
the game.
The replayer stumbled at the border of two
games.
Under unclear conditions a stack-overflow
happened.
In the replayer you can call the Best-Moves-dialog
box with CTRL-B when possible and the evaluation dialog
box with CTRL-E. If the move and the comment-Box don't
have the focus you might navigate with
cursor-left/right
I'm sorry about the error. BGBlitz has more than
70,000 lines of code and it is very difficult having enough
test on all platforms and get the new features published
fast enough. I hope I haven't caused any inconvenience.
Thanks to Ric Gerrace and Frank Haselein for pointing out
the errors.
07/08/02: BGBlitz 1.0.5 has following
improvements and bug fixes:
TachiAI now uses a calculated Match-Equity-Table, so
for long matches the values are exact and not
approximated. Additionally you can select the gammon
probability TachiAI should use.
In post Crawford games, a special Match-Equity-table
for cube decision is used.
There is also a now dialog box, showing the different
Match-Equity-tables.
JavaFibs log files are now supported.
The move notation on the board and in the clipboard
is more consistent.
I streamlined the menus according to a proposal of
Frank Haselein (tnx).
Mac OS X fixed: the board couldn't made smaller.
Mac OS 9/X fixed: log files couldn't be opened.
Some minor Bugs fixed.
06/04/02: BGBlitz 1.0.4 has following
improvements and bug fixes:
TachiAI use Match Winning Probability for move
selection in match play (JPWhite)
"Best Moves" dialog box and "Evaluate Position" show
match winning probability in match play
the Match Equity table for TachiAI / Evaluation /
Best Move is selectable
Cube handling at post Crawford games correctly
implemented
BGBlitz supports the Dutch language. Many thanks to
Roger Troost for his translation.
BGBlitz supports the Jacoby/Trice Match Equity
table.
Mac OS X: supports the right mouse button and
ctrl-click or meta-click as simulation for the right
mouse button
Mac OS X: fixed: drawing artifacts on the board when
bitmaps for points are used
Mac OS X: some bugs in dialog layout (introduced by
the latest Java patch? :-( ) are fixed
Some perfectly legal code which caused under rare
circumstances crashing of Java 1.1 was rewritten.
Some minor Bugs fixed
Although the installer was configured, to *not use
Microsoft Java* (MS-Java doesn't support RMI) this code
seems not to have worked all the time. So now a warning
is shown, if a Microsoft Java is detected.
05/04/02: BGBlitz 1.0.3 is a bug fix release,
which fixes some nasty bugs:
the most severe bug was the misdrawing of the board.
It's unbelievable ( but explainable) that this had never
shown on any of my computers
the score of the first game in a money session was
ignored
windows only: spaces in the path breaks the help
in endgames TachiAI sometimes missed the opportunity
for a gammon
TachiAI missed the opportunity for an automatic
redouble in match play.
Additionally I moved the replay menus from the
Miscellaneous to the File menu. Thanks to Frank Haselein
for his thoughts on that and thanks to all which told me
about the errors.
In 1.0.2 I silently fixed that under some circumstances
both player could roll the dice.
Frank Berger, Wilhelmstr.27, 50733 K?�ln, Germany Contact