Portes, plakoto, fevga (greek backgammon) in GNUbg?

[ghjk]

Hi, all!
Is there a possibility for GNUbg to play in the future
Portes, Plakoto and Fevga (greek backgammon)?
This will be nice!!!
Thank you in advance.

[Bill Flinton]

Hi to GNUbg developer,
this would be a really nice extension to the already
existing great GNUbg !!
There is no good greek variations software, for those who
want to play greek check out :

http://tavli-network.gr

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[ghjk]

Well, GNUbg developers?
Any answer?
Thx!

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[Jørn Thyssen]

ghjk wrote:
> Well, GNUbg developers?
> Any answer?

I'm not familiar with any of the variants you describe.

The rules of backgammon is pretty much hardcoded in the internals of
gnubg, so only variants that resemble backgammon can easily be implemented.

Besides that we may have to write a new engine to play the new variants.

Nobody is working supporting new variants. Of course, if someone
volunteers we'll be happy to provide help.

Jørn

[David Levy]

For those of you interested in backgammon variants:

I have completed an alpha version of Soumille, The First Trictrac Program.
You can read about the game and the program at
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/david.levy/trictrac/.

The computer opponent is based on a neural net and seems to play reasonably
well. I have profited greatly from the gnubg source code and some pointers
from members of the gnubg team.

I have released the alpha Soumille to members of the Yahoo Trictrac Group.
You can join the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/trictrac/. I expect
to release a beta to the group in the next many weeks and will probably sell
the production version for a small amount as shareware.

David Levy

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