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BGBlitz X - 2.6.2

backgammon program powered by neural nets

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All Time:	(4.5)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.6.2
Release Date:	2008-10-26
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	872
Downloads (all versions):	17,146
Price:	$23.00

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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,Turkish
And much more...

What's new in this version:

It is a bug fix release. Several errors are fixed:

Drag&Drop support was broken in 2.6.0
An error in the match database introduced in 2.6.0 is fixed. Additionally BGBlitz recognizes the broken databases and repairs them at the start.
some bugs in the presentation of the rollout results were fixed, especially ASCII and HTML export.
I reduced the playing strength of the weaker levels. There was feedback that they are still far to strong for casual players. One user told me that an analyse he made says that even "Beginner" is still at world class level. Surely not what I intended.
some smaller bugfixes

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

None

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Rock solid gameplay - Version: 2.6.0, 9/22/2008 04:27AM PST

stam

Very nice game play. Graphics are OK, no fancy animations or 3D perspective, but to be honest, that's OK (although would be nice), because it plays so well. Recommended.

Was going to give it 4 stars for lack of eye candy, but decided to give it 5 instead to offset some of the more curious reviews that recommend a competitor's product by "phantom" reviewers.

Needs polish - Version: 2.2.4, 7/29/2007 03:45PM PST

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HL/Popmusic.dk

I tried this (BGBlitz) and another Backgammon game called Absolute Backgammon.

BGBlitz seems to play very well but the interface and graphics need polish. Some niggles with the interface is that it seems to move your piece instantly not letting you grab the piece and move it yourself. Maybe there's a way around this.

Graphics are too small and rather dull, and the pieces look slightly funky.

I'd recommend Absolute Backgammon although that also isn't in 3D, too bad there seems to be no good 3D games around.

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Needs polish - no longer

Needs polish

A+ - Version: 2.0.1, 2/7/2007 11:50PM PST

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simonm1

BGBlitz is an excellent Backgammon with a really tough AI that is hard to beat and will force you to play better. Unfortunately, 16% of the games will end prematurely until you pay the shareware fee, which I think puts it into the category of "ransomware". But if you're a backgammon fan and like a challenge then look nowhere else than BGBlitz.