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1 Introduction

This manual describes how to use GNU Backgammon to play and analyze backgammon games and matches. It corresponds to version 0.16-devel (updated in February, 2007).

GNU Backgammon (gnubg) plays and analyzes backgammon games and matches. It is able to play and analyze both money games and tournament matches, evaluate and roll out positions, and more. Driven by a command-line interface, it displays an ASCII rendering of a board on text-only terminals, but also allows the user to play games and manipulate positions with a graphical GTK+ interface. GNU Backgammon is extensible on platforms which support Python.

     
     (No game) new game
     gnubg rolls 3, anthon rolls 1.
     
     GNU Backgammon  Positions ID: 4HPwATDgc/ABMA
     Match ID   : MIEFAAAAAAAA
      +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+     O: gnubg
      | X           O    |   | O              X |     0 points
      | X           O    |   | O              X |     Rolled 31
      | X           O    |   | O                |
      | X                |   | O                |
      | X                |   | O                |
     ^|                  |BAR|                  |     (Cube: 1)
      | O                |   | X                |
      | O                |   | X                |
      | O           X    |   | X                |
      | O           X    |   | X              O |
      | O           X    |   | X              O |     0 points
      +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+     X: anthon
     
     gnubg moves 8/5 6/5.
     

GNU Backgammon is a world class opponent and rates at around 2000 on FIBS, the First Internet Backgammon Server – at its best, it is in the top 5 of over 6000 rated players there). GNU Backgammon can be played on numerous other on-line backgammon servers.

The following features can be found in the current release of GNU Backgammon.

Note

Some language translations are not completed yet.