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> Can someone post some step-by-step instructions of how to enter an
> individual position in Gnu, rollout different checker plays (or the
> cube action) and then have the results saved in the file?
There are two tricky steps involved in this, and they are getting the
setup process started, presuming you just opened the program, and saving
your results.
1) As soon as you have started the program, select the New button, and
choose Human vs. Human and Manual Dice. These are the important
settings. Match length or Money game can and will be changed after,
so feel free to leave the default setting.
2) If the board is in the wrong direction, such as being different from
the board or book you are copying from, then press the Direction button
at the top.
3) The Board Setup: Press the Edit button at the top. Setting up pieces
follows the usual Snowie system, though to set the dice, just click on
the board as you normally do to roll dice in GNU and the dice pane will
pop-up. If you want the other side to be on roll, just 'roll' the dice
by clciking on the other side of the board. A few tips all the same:
- Clicking on the side of the board, where the checkers would be borne
off, will either remove all the pieces or set the starting position.
It varies according to the direction of the board. See 2).
- To add more than 5 checkers to any column just keep adding checkers
on top of the 5th checker. In other words keep clicking on it, and
not above it as you might mistakenly try to do.
- To remove the last checker from the bar, in case you mistakenly place
one, or change your mind, click on it.
- You probably know this, but in case others reading this don't, you
can fill a board with a row of anchors/points in a single move by
keeping the button pressed and sliding the mouse to the side. For
example: suppose you want to fill the home board with an anchor of 2
checkers from the ace point to the 6-point. Just right/left click on
the ace point where the second checker would go, and without letting
the mouse button go, drag the mouse to the side over the other points
all the way to the 6 point. It will fill all the points as you do
this.
4) The Match/Money Conditions: the match length can be edited below the
board as you'll see. If you want to set this to a Money game, lower the
score to 0 (zero). To change from a money game to a match of any length
just raise it to the match length of your choice.
Note: for some odd reason, you can only set it for Crawford when
exiting the Edit mode, not in it. So if you want a Crawford game, set
up everything the way you like, including the names of the players,
exit Edit mode by pressing the Edit button again, and then select
Crawford below.
5) Analyzing and Saving the Results:
a) UNpress the Edit button. You cannot do analysis while it is pressed.
b) Play a move. Forget about pressing the Hint button to analyse the
move. You'll get a result but won't be able to save it. Play a move
and pick up the dice. It will ask you to choose the dice for the
next move. Select any. Even if you wish to enter a sequence later,
you'll be able to change this roll without affecting the previous
move's analysis. BTW, you can ask GNU for a Hint first before
selecting your move of course. :-)
c) Your move has been played and you want to see GNU's analysis and
possibly run rollouts on it. Click on the move in the move list so
that you see your choice, then go to the Analysis menu, and select
Analyse move.
d) The initial results should appear as you would expect to see in an
analyzed match. Click on any of the moves to run 3-ply, 4-ply,
whatever-ply, or rollouts, and run your analysis. Your results will
be preserved when saving.
e) To save the results, you MUST save the position as a MATCH or GAME,
but absolutely NOT as a POSITION. I realize this is counter-
intuitive, but that's the only way. If you save it as a position,
it only saves the board setup and match conditions, but nothing
else.
Merry Christmas. :-)
Albert
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