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Do WORLD CLASS players prefer Snowie ??? *LINK*

Posted By: Hardy Hübener
Date: Tuesday, 14 November 2006, at 2:23 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Re: Snowie Rollout (Stick)

With only -0.004 equity for Double-Take for the Snowie rollouts, it's indeed just a boarderline Beaver, while GNUBG rollouts consider it a clear beaver.

I am not sure, whether really all World Class players prefer Snowie. Do they? I think it's 50/50. On a seminar during the Nordic Open this year Neil Kazaross was asked, which software he uses. And he stated, he requires both Snowie and GNU Backgammon. If a decision is close, he asks both programms. And as Snowie unfortunately does not consider "checker play according match score" in his rollouts (!!!), especially for problems with uneven match scores or at the end of the match, GNUBG rollouts are a must!

I think there are a lot of things that could be improved at Snowie. While GNUBG was once critisized for it's usability, I now think that GNUBG's user interface is much better than Snowie's. Especially the match records are better displayed at GNUBG. For Snowie, the results are somehow "hidden" and don't get obvious on first sight.

Especially the "checker play according match score" has to be included in Snowie's rollout feature in the future.

Hardy ;-)

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