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GNU Backgammon (gnubg) is for playing and analysing backgammon positions, games
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and matches. It's based on a neural network. In the past twelve months it has
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made enormous progress. It currently plays at about the level of a championship
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flight tournament player. Depending on its parameters and its luck in recent
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games, it rates from around 1900 to 2000 on FIBS, the First Internet Backgammon
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Server -- at its strongest, it ranks in the top 5 of over 6000 rated players
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there) and is gradually improving; it should be somewhat stronger than this when
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released. Since almost all of the CPU time required during supervised training
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is spent performing rollouts, and rollouts can easily be performed in parallel,
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it is hoped that users will be able to pool rollout results and collectively
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train it to a level stronger than any individual could obtain.
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