Forum Archive : Snowie

Snowie vs. Jellyfish From:   Daniel Murphy Address:   raccoon@best.com Date:   22 October 2000 Subject:   Re: Is Snowie worth the extra $200? Forum:   rec.games.backgammon Google:   39f2a9bb.3546568@news.cybercity.dk > I'm an intermediate player, around 1700, and would like to improve my > game. I looked at and tried both JellyFish and Snowie, and they are > pretty much the same as far as the trial edition goes. I don't know > anything about the advanced features, so I would like to know: since the > latest JellyFish cost $220 while Snowie is $380, is Snowie worth the > extra money? For the extra $160, you get a program that plays at about the same level but with greatly improved functions for match import, analysis and review, error identification, rollouts that use a live cube and take match score into consideration for checker and play decisions, statistical analysis of "player accounts" (of all your matches, or anyone's matches). Those are the main things, I think. And if you'll use these functions, it's worth the extra $. In JF's favor, its analysis and rollouts are also credible, its way of doing things are sometimes more useful than Snowie's, and JF is MUCH faster -- Snowie's play at its highest level is VERY slow even on fast computers. And it is also possible to import online matches into JellyFish with free helper programs like FIBSJF and BG Blitz. The web pages of oasya.com and effect.no describe the advanced features of Snowie and JellyFish.   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

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) 

Snowie cube evaluation  (Kit Woolsey, Sept 2007) 

Snowie vs GNU  (Stanley E. Richards+, Oct 2005) 

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) 

Terminology  (Alexander Nitschke, Sept 1998) 

Using rollouts  (Michael J. Zehr+, Oct 1998) 

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