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Snowie vs. Jellyfish

From:   Wayne Crookes
Address:   wcrookes@home.com
Date:   11 January 1999
Subject:   Re: Snowie Vs JellyFish
Forum:   rec.games.backgammon
Google:   rTtm2.31823$2Q.8633@news.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com

Snowie Profession is greatly superior in that it will analyse the whole
game of any game you play against it, including those that you play on
GamesGrid or Fibs and import into Snowie Professional.

A three-ply analysis on my Pentium II, 333 Mhz with 128Mb of RAM  of a
seven point match generally takes 20 to 25 minutes.

I can go through it and see the rating (numerical co-efficient) which
Snowie gives to my play, the play which it considers best and most other
plays, as well as cube decisions.

The analysis rates my overall play as well as my partners - novice,
beginner, intermediate, advanced, expert or world class.  I can see the
rating for cubes decisions - missed cubes, wrong cubes, wrong takes and
wrong passes as well as the rating for checker plays.  It summarizes the
number of  checker play errors, including blunders, and finally indicates
which player was luckiest.

You can go through each match, on a roll by roll basis or jump to cube
decision errors, checker error, checker blunders or all of them.

Playing with Jellyfish you will be able to see JF's evaluation of each play
as you play and can get Jellyfish to rollout positions (as you can in
Snowie too).

Jellyfish is a really good programme.  Snowie Professional has gone two
steps further.  I recommend both but recommend Snowie very strongly.
 
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Snowie

Announcement  (Olivier Egger, Apr 1998) 
Checker-play-according-to-score bug  (Peter Schneider+, June 2001) 
Error rates  (Gregg Cattanach, Oct 2000) 
Hints and questions  (Achim Müller+, Aug 1998) 
Luck calculation  (Gregg Cattanach+, Dec 1999) 
Questions and answers  (David Montgomery, Dec 1998) 
Running in low priority  (lmfback+, Oct 2004) 
Snowie 4.0  (SnowieGroup Info, Oct 2002) 
Snowie 4.3 update  (Gregg Cattanach, July 2005)  [GammOnLine forum]
Snowie cube evaluation  (Kit Woolsey, Sept 2007)  [GammOnLine forum]
Snowie vs GNU  (Stanley E. Richards+, Oct 2005)  [GammOnLine forum]
Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Mark Driver, Apr 2001) 
Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Daniel Murphy, Oct 2000) 
Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Gregg Cattanach+, Sept 2000) 
Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Wayne Crookes, Jan 1999) 
Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Kenneth M. Arnold+, May 1998)  [Long message]
Terminology  (Alexander Nitschke, Sept 1998) 
Using rollouts  (Michael J. Zehr+, Oct 1998)  [Long message]

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