Forum Archive : Snowie

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.   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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