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BGBlitz

BGBlitz - 1.9.0

backgammon program powered by neural nets

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Current Version: 1.9.0
Release Date: 2004-09-04
License: Commercial
Downloads (this version): 1,196
Downloads (all versions): 3,563
Price: $23.00/46.00

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Product Description:

BGBlitz has the by far strongest gameplay of all commercial Backgammons on the Mac, is the winner of the 2003 Computer BG World Championship and is the winner of the 7th Computer Olympiad 2002. Some of its features:
  • Play against BGBlitz, with it's top neural net technology
  • Easy to use
  • superb graphics
  • Play over TCP/IP against a opponent at a different computer
  • Rollout Positions.
  • Let the tutor improve your play.
  • Train your skill with position quiz databases.
  • Analyze interesting positions.
  • Train your cube handling in matchplay.
  • Supported languages are English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Hebrew,Swedish
  • And much more...

What's new in this version:

  • cubeful evaluation in money games according to the Janowski formulas
  • faster evaluation and move generation.
  • visualize the brain of BGBlitz.
  • Match-ID, EMG (Equivalent Money Game) and standard deviation shown.
  • two serious bugfixes and a few minor ones.
  • Nearly 20 further small improvements in functionality and usability are included in this release too.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS 9.x
  • Java Runtime (MRJ 2.2)

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BGBlitz CommentaryResponse to Game Author - Version: 1.5.0, 9/14/2003 01:31PM PST

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BGBlitz author
So I will here recapitulate the story again, just the facts nothing
else:

- With version 1.0.4 Byrum includes the possibilty to use Radu's board
for Macfibs. Without asking permission what makes Radu upset and IMHO
he was right with this.

- When Paul Ferguson, the author of MAcFibs was made aware that David
uses the MacFibs themes, he put a note on the site that this isn't allowed.
David still offers the possibility to load those boards. AFAIK he only
removed any special reference to Radus GoldChrome board and changed the documentation. Just recently he put on his website, respect the authors
roghts.

- His glassboard has copied and imitated the background and points of
the two leather board. see this picture
www.bgblitz.com/glass_vs_2leather.jpg.
(BTW Radu has shown me a Glassboard clone [only the board, no checkers etc] and he needed less than 5 minutes to come from 2_Leathers to glassboard).

1) I never ever said anything about your SW, neither good nor bad.
2) I don't compete with Absolute BG in any way and I don't care about your
downloads in any way. BGBlitz competes with Snowie, GNU-BG and Jellyfish
which are know as the strongest programms and I have strong indication
that BGBlitz is at least as strong as Jellyfish and beat GNU-BG at the
computer Olympiad.
BGBlitz is for serious students of the game and/or players which will become
better in Backgammon.
Absolute BG ist for people which like BG as a pastime and nothing more. This is totally ok.

3) David Byrum is attacking me in my personal integrity. I too can say that I never ever met such an underhanded person like him. He says I want to discredit his SW, but If I wanted to discredit Absolute BG, wouldn't it be a much better way to post critics under several nicks?
As David did after the first trouble with his usage of Radu's GoldChrome
board from MacFibs. There were postings from "eagle eye" and
"backgammonlover" for BGBlitz saying more or less "good stuff, too bad it
allows illegal moves and Absolute BG is much better stuff". We resolved the
trouble and he removed those postings (@David: I was pretty sure that they
were from you, but that you *removed* them brought me the evidence) Now when you look at Davids BG which is also from David Byrum you may suspect some posting as self promotion too....see that "eagle eye" and "backgammonlover" gives David's BG 5 stars (i.e. self promotion). Then look further. If you analyze the diction you will suspect that catalyst,
backgammon1 and tiburon are too synonym for David Byrum and naturally he
gave himself 5 stars always.
Some further interisting stuff: tiburon and backgammon1 posted
the same lengthy comment word by word. Accident? Around David Byrum are
happening too much accidents for my taste.
So much for *his* integrity.

What would have been my and Radu's appropriate reaction?
What if his imitating would have gone without reaction, what should I or
Radu (because it is his work) do if he next clones another board or two?
And this is not a remote possibility. He threated me in a mail that
he would make Absolute BG compatible with BGBlitz boards and he
has already 95% of the code ready!

I'am a very peaceful person, and I would like it very much to come to
any reasonable agreement. If he created the hole stuff, why don't he
simply changes the points and texture and everything is allright?
It could hardy take more than an hour or two and would support the
fact that he did it accidently.
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BGBlitz CommentaryRe: BGBlitz author - Version: 1.5.0, 7/2/2003 04:13PM PST

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game author (GammonSoft)
I am the author of Absolute Backgammon. Ever since I have introduced the game, the author of BGBlitz and his boards creator Radu, have taken every opportunity to publicly denigrate me and to advertise on my product page in version tracker. They have no legitimate reason to do this except to gain attention to their game.

I have been creating backgammon games (David's Backgammon and Absolute Backgammon) for 15 year now (Amiga-Windows-Mac) Never have I seen this dispictable type of behavior from anyone.

www.bestbackgammon.com/absolute
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