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Sunday, February 24, 2008

SNOWIE 3.2 Professional edition

Snowie is a high-quality backgammon program. It is based on proprietary neural network technology that has been trained to play as good as or better than the best human players.

Besides playing you can use snowie to evaluate your game, each move and the equities of the best possible checker plays in the given position. Snowie gives you advice on how you should use the doubling cube. It will give you the proper cube action in the given position but will also tell you how likely it is to win from the position and how much a doubling error costs.
You can perform rollout. A rollout is a computer simulation that plays the game to the end many times. This gives you the highest quality of evaluation. In Snowie you have many different options to run a rollout.

You can ask Snowie to analyze a whole session for you. Depending on the precision of the analysis you request, it might take a few seconds up to a few hours of computer time. Snowie will go automatically through each move of the session and analyze it.
Once you have analyzed your session, you can browse through it to view all the plays that Snowie considers as errors. It will also give you a rating on how well both players played in the session. You can also see what types of errors were mostly made (missed doubles, check play errors...

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