Re: Hyper gammon

2022-06-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Philippe Michel writes: > I don't have a Mint distribution installed, but on Ubuntu (it should be > very similar), makehyper in present in /usr/games and can create an > hypergammon database. > It creates it in the current directory and then you have to copy it in > the expected place. This is

Re: Hyper gammon

2022-06-27 Thread Ezequiel Galarce
Ok, thank you so much! El lun., 27 jun. 2022 22:49, Ian Shaw escribió: > Hi Ezequiel, > > I'm afraid it looks like gnubg may no longer support hypergammon,even > though the options are still there in the gui. > > The developers may be able to give a reason. > > If you are desperate to play

Re: Hyper gammon

2022-06-27 Thread Louis Zulli
Hypergammon is supported. See Philippe's recent reply. I can confirm that the info he offered is correct for Ubuntu. I just used makehyper -c 2 -f hyper2.bd to generate the database for two-checker hypergammon. Generation took 52 seconds. Alas, generation of the three-checker database will take

Re: Hyper gammon

2022-06-27 Thread Ian Shaw
Hi Ezequiel, I'm afraid it looks like gnubg may no longer support hypergammon,even though the options are still there in the gui. The developers may be able to give a reason. If you are desperate to play hypergammon, perhaps it would be possible on an older version. If I can find a copy of

Re: Hyper gammon

2022-06-27 Thread Philippe Michel
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 05:35:01PM +, Ian Shaw wrote: > I’ve just tried it, but the command makehyper is no longer supported. I don't have a Mint distribution installed, but on Ubuntu (it should be very similar), makehyper in present in /usr/games and can create an hypergammon database.

Re: Hyper gammon

2022-06-27 Thread Ezequiel Galarce
Thanks, but I still don't understand how to do it, could you help me a little more? Thank you very much! El lun., 27 jun. 2022 19:35, Ian Shaw escribió: > Hi Ezequiel, > > > > I’ve just tried it, but the command makehyper is no longer supported. I > don’t know why. > > > > Phillippe, Øystein

RE: Hyper gammon

2022-06-27 Thread Ian Shaw
Hi Ezequiel, I’ve just tried it, but the command makehyper is no longer supported. I don’t know why. Phillippe, Øystein any ideas? -- Ian From: Ian Shaw Sent: 27 June 2022 18:28 To: 'Ezequiel Galarce' ; bug-gnubg@gnu.org Subject: RE: Hyper gammon Hi Ezequiel, I don’t play hypergammon, so my

RE: No bugs, just a question

2022-06-27 Thread Ian Shaw
Hi Teddy, The luckier player wins a lot of the time. However, I’ve definitely seen many games where the luckier player had played badly enough to still lose. It’s often me! Perhaps you’re sample size is not large enough. That’s all I can suggest. (I’m not sure what happens if you play on any

RE: Hyper gammon

2022-06-27 Thread Ian Shaw
Hi Ezequiel, I don’t play hypergammon, so my answer may not be correct. However, I think that the Hypergammon options are enabled if gnubg finds the relevant hypergammon database in the gnubg folder. You could try looking at the help here:

Hyper gammon

2022-06-27 Thread Ezequiel Galarce
Hello good afternoon, I am studying the "hyper gammon" variant and I regularly use gnubg but I have seen that the "hyper" game option cannot be enabled, I would like to know how it is enabled. I am using Gnu in Linux (mint) . Thank you very much!