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Originally Posted by The Cat's Meow
Good god, how on earth can you run these forums and recommend Snowie still. It's the end of 2010, Snowie is obsolete in the sense that nobody should be buying it and the few that have a good excuse to use it are few and far between.
To prove to anyone here before the hate replies come that Snowie is indeed outdated I will back GNU or eXtreme Gammon v. Snowie for real money, you name the stakes, equivalent high ply settings. Bill, you're welcome to accept.
Bill is deleting any posts he doesn't like btw. Any truthful posts like this one seem to be top on his radar.
Meow!
Lol. A whale backed up jellyfish in a moneygame session against Nack Ballard and Mike Sienkiewicz. Break even. Set up a money session between snowie/xg, snowie/gnu and xg/gnu 10.000 games, and then come back. If the old turd jellyfish is able to break even against top notch players in a 600 play session, so what. And this will prove nothing, to bann a bot at all. Perhaps we will use XG, but on deep back games we switch to snowie, and so on. And look what Frank Berger of BGBlitz said about bot proramming and the difficulties to get it flying stable. To play good at backgammon, you need to develop a deep positional understanding. Rollouts are an experiment. You have to make it meaningful. Look at Problem #50 and the disput about rollout settings alone. I don't think, that snowie is way off, to make such a harsh judgement.