Greetings,

There is an issue I have with money game sessions. If players are both
'Gnu Backgammon' then the program automatically makes moves and starts a
new game of the session once the previous one has finished. And this
will continue without end. In the desktop version of GnuBG I can
interrupt the match, but then there appears to be no way of restarting
it. The same is also true in the console version of GnuBG. I can do
Ctrl+C to interrupt but cannot resume.

To get around this it would be useful if there were a match length
parameter for money game sessions so that the session could end after a
certain number of games have been played. In the console version of
GnuBG this could be done via the command 'new session [length]'. The
session would then not run forever.

Why would this be useful for me? It is because I would like to be able
to have console-GnuBG run a computer vs. computer session where one of
the players is ranked expert ( 2-ply ) with the other ranked grandmaster
( 3-ply ) and have the session run for a sufficient number of games for
me to quantify how much better 3-ply is over 2-ply.

Would it be possible for this to be added to the next release?

Best Wishes,

Dariusz Stachowski



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