Existing users, 
I have t admit to being possibly yhe world's worst player of Backgammon so after loads of thought I went straight to the Pro version.
Now the author promises us that this application does not cheat. I am now sitting closer to the computer hoping that some of its dice throwing luck manages to rub off on me. I can be trying to roll a 1 to get back into the game. 10 throws later I still haven't thrown one, whereas if the computer needs a 1 to get back into the game it is uncanny how easily it manages to get one. Just luck?
I have noticed that it throws an uncanny number of doubles right at the end of the game too.
Perhaps I am just being bitter and twisted!!
BGBlitz X
Backgammon program powered by neural nets.
Version: 2.6.2
Amazing
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: mail117 Tuesday, December 05 2006 @ 12:12 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: YES
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Amazing - mail117
I won the next 4 games - hangs head in shame!!Sunday, December 24 2006 @ 03:44 PM PST
Amazing - bgblitz
Please do the following experiment:start BGBlitz freshly. Play a game and if you think you had bad dice, save it at the end.
Send me a hardcopy of the final position. Important is that the random number state is on the hardcopy (right upper status bar. Looks like LC 123456/5 or similar).
When you send the hardcopy to me, I will tell you all the rolls that have been in the game (you can check that with the saved game). When the dice rolls depend on your game play, how can I reproduce them? If I can't reproduce them, I send you some bottles of wine...(o.k. under the condition you havn't selected random.org as random number generator. No one can predict that)
And believe me, If I would regard manipulating dice as .... lets say *justifiable* measure, I would have surely won the 2006 computer Olympiad in Torino.
I guess that manipulating 1 or 2 rolls in every 15-point match would have been enough to win and because the GnuBG people trust me, it will never have been revealed. Cheating at Torino would have been payed off, but cheating at normal users? Where is the benefit for me?
I hope your bad luck streak stops, and if you keep on training with BGBlitz your gameplay will improve decently, at least this is what many people telling me.
regards
Frank
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Saturday, December 23 2006 @ 06:18 AM PST