Snowie vs. Jellyfish

[Michael Schell]

In an effort to learn more about the game, I'm looking to purchase one of
the neural-net players. But which one to get? Jellyfish and Snowie are both
rather expensive, Snowie particularly so at $380. (Considering that I can
purchase Fritz 6, which plays chess at grandmaster level, for under $60,
this seems more than a bit out of whack). Is Snowie worth nearly double the
cost of Jellyfish at $220? And is Jellyfish development ongoing, as Snowie
development appears to be.

Sorry if this is going over well-hewn territory. With Deja's reorganization,
I've had trouble finding posts on this specific theme, since I can't search
back prior to 1999.

- Michael Schell
Cribbage Forum
http://members.aol.com/schell77/cribbage.htm

[Gregg Cattanach]

IMO, Snowie is worth all $380, but I'm very serious about this silly game
:-) The choices, options, and user interface are vastly superior in Snowie
vs. Jellyfish. Also, it is pretty clear that Snowie continues to be
developed, where Jellyfish hasn't had any new work done (other than an
improved user interface in version 3.5). Snowie's last 3.0 was a huge step
forward in including cubeful results in all analysis.

The myriad of rollout choices and ability to analyze entire matches in a
single step makes Snowie a superior analytical product.

As to the prices vs. chess software, the size of the market is the main
factor that keeps Jellyfish and Snowie rather highly priced.

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Gregg Cattanach
Zox at GamesGrid, Zone
http://gateway.to/backgammon

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