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Backgammon analysis softwareIf you would like to develop your play talents faster, we recommend you to use a Backgammon analyzer, e.g. Snowie Backgammon or GNU Backgammon. The programs help you to improve yourself by indicating the best courses. You play thus against a computer, which tells you whether you play optimally or not. Regarding both your courses and your use of the doubling cube. Beyond that, you can import old plays from the internet and get them then analyzed by the program. The analyzers were created on basis of many millions of game simulations. During the play you can see your probabilities of profit the whole time, and you get consultation concerning the doubling cube.Snowie Backgammon Many regard Snowie as the best analysis. Unfortunately, the price is accordingly, $365 for the professional version and $100 for the expenditure for students. Click here to acquire Snowie. GNU Backgammon GNU Backgammon is likewise a very good analyzer. It is however not completely as good as Snowie, but almost, and it is free! We therefore recommend GNU Backgammon. In the next sections you find our operating instructions for the GNU Backgammon analysis software. On the Internet side of GNU Backgammon you can download the software free of charge. GNU Backgammon - GuideBegin new playWhen starting the GNU Backgammon software, the following window opens. In order to begin a new play, click on "new” in the upper left corner. Afterwards, the following window with the description of the match opens.  In this window you can, among other things, adjust the type of game. The automatic pre-setting is a match play up to 7 points. In order to get constant consultation, you must activate "Tutor mode ". If you make a doubtful course, or you make no doubling, when you should have done, you are warned automatically by the program. Under "Modify more player settings…" the level regarding pulling and the doubling cube can be adjusted separately. The higher the level, the longer the considering time one has per course. Adjust "Checker adjusts play " as well as "Cube decisions "to Supremo. If you like, you can adjust a higher level, but GNU Backgammon becomes frustratingly slow then. In order to move your checkers, you can both use normal drag and drop or, as with TrueMoneyGames, moving two checkers at the same time when clicking on a position. With left-click on a checker, the dice with the larger eye number decides how far the checker can move, with right-clicking, the dice with the smaller eye number decides. If GNU Backgammon offers a doubling, it can be accepted by left clicking, and rejected by right clicking. During the game You can ask GNU Backgammon every time for advice concerning a course or a doubling by clicking on "Hint ". If you activated "Tutor mode ", the automatically following warning window will open, if you transacted a doubtful course or a doubling at the wrong time.  In order to improve your talents most effectively, it is important that you make your best move before you click the "Hint "- button. When clicking "Hint ", GNU Backgammon lists all possible moves descending. Your move made is marked with red.  We suggest that you click introductory on "MWC ". Instead of match Winning Chances GNU Backgammon Equity (Equivalent Money Game) shows, what is of a better use. An Equity of +0.2 means an average gain of $0.2 in a play for $1. In "the Diff. " column you see, how much worse your move is in comparison to the best move. With marking a move and clicking on "show " afterwards, the execution of the move will be indicated. If you click on "show "again, the checkers are withdrawn to their original positions. Here it is important again that you give some thought to why GNU Backgammon moved the checkers in the way it did, in order to develop your understanding for the game. If you had had doubts about doubling and what to do, the following window would have opened, after clicking on "Hint ".  GNU Backgammon shows you here your Equity for each scenario and tells you under "pro by cube action ", which option is best for you. In this case a doubling is worth it, since the Equity rises no matter if your opponent accepts or rejects the doubling. Analysis  With the forward and backward arrows you can switch between your old games and carried out moves. If you played a game to the end, which you would like to have analyzed, you click the backward arrow once and then, you click on "Analyze " and hereafter "Analyze game ". Wrong moves and doublings are branded then, and you can use the function "Hint" as aid again. Under "Edit "you have the possibility to place checkers as you like. You simply use the right and left mouse button in order to place the checkers on the board, and GNU Backgammon can help you then with the given position. Under "position ID "you find the code of the current position. If you store this code, you can reconstruct exactly this formation at a later time, by simply entering the code under "position ID "again. Click here to visit the Internet side of GNU Backgammon.
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