Re: Money game: why D/D?

On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 08:35:15AM +1200, Joseph Heled wrote: > I am assuming this has to do with Jacoby, but I can't find a way to turn it > off after importing an "oldmoves" file. > > (I tried "set jacoby off" from the terminal) "set jacoby off only" applies to the current position and future

Re: [PATCH] Fix a few deprecation warnings with the autotools config

On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 01:38:30PM -0400, Nikolas Nyby wrote: > * Removed AC_PROG_CC_STDC. This was apparently needed by gcc 4.4, but > that is so old by now, I think we can remove it. > * Removed AC_PROG_LIBTOOL in favor of the current LT_INIT > * Updated the iconv.m4 macro with the upstream

Re: gnubg and Mac sonoma

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 08:04:09PM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote: > Solved! Apparently, you need to install xorg-server too > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/69994#comment:2 > > Not the best UX in my opinion, but happy that free software can run > on a Mac too Nice to see that you and

Re: Have you ever seen anything like this?

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 04:21:51AM -0600, Murat K wrote: > I just remembered that someone had asked not so long ago > about the possibility of saving the moves during rollouts > and I had inquired about why he was wanting to do that. > > I searched the archives but couldn't find it. Maybe I was

Re: Have you ever seen anything like this?

On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 05:31:02PM -0600, Murat K wrote: > [...] Could this > kind of bizarre games have been happening in rollouts for all those > years without anyone noticing? And if so, what would the implication > of that would be?? I suppose they do happen, but very rarely. With the cube

GNUbg version 1.08.003 available

A new version of GNUbg is available at https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/ The changes since 1.08.002 are: Fixes for three bugs causing crashes: - When trying to use the Graph tab from Analyse/Match or session statistics This was a regression introduced in the 1.08.002 version - When

Re: Have you ever seen anything like this?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 06:04:50PM -0600, Murat K wrote: > I posted an article including pretty images of some positions on: > > https://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?read=213189 > > Please read it there and then feel free to post replies here if > you prefer also. It may not be a bug

Re: Preview of forthcoming gnubg release

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 05:17:06AM +0900, TAKAHASHI Kaoru wrote: > I found bug at Crawford checkbox (at `show marketwindow'). > > > Might be better to merge after 1.08.003 release as it has not been > tested enough. I will comment here rather than

Re: What is "15", "Unknown cube decision"?

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 04:47:31PM -0600, Murat K wrote: > Since I have been running experiments using my Python > scripts that I have shared on my web page, every now > and then I get the "unknown cube decision" error when > I call the "gnubg.cfevaluate()" function. > > It's coming from line

Re: Preview of forthcoming gnubg release

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 01:55:05AM -0600, Murat K wrote: > It looks like most releases for many years (even > decades) offered only GUI improvements and bug > fixes. Can you tell me when was the last release > that actually offered stronger play? It was release 1.00 (and, yes, it was as far back

Preview of forthcoming gnubg release

I have uploaded a new gnubg Windows build at http://philippe.michel7.free.fr/gnubg/ This should fix three bugs causing crashes in 1.08.002: - When trying to use the Graph tab from Analyse/Match or session statistics This is a regression introduced in the 1.08.002 version - When stopping a

Re: Buggy bugs

On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 03:07:50AM +, Theodor.Constantinescu wrote: > I installed the newest version of the wonderful gnuBG on a new > computer and have two problems: > [...] > 2 On the 2D board, if one of the players can't move, the roll is not > shown! Very annoying! In God's name, WHY

Process priority setting

Gnubg's CLI has a "set priority" function that allows to run it with a lower priority, or, theorically, a higher one, but the latter never worked on Unix and hasn't in Windows for some time (it may have in the past but now you would need no run it with elevated privileges to do this, a dubious

Re: Inquiry on Integrating GNU Backgammon for Analysis via RESTful API

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:00:06PM +, David Reay wrote: > I hope this message finds you well. I am currently developing a RESTful API > using Python, specifically with frameworks such as FastAPI/Flask, and I am > keen on integrating GNU Backgammon (gnubg) into this project. The primary >

Repository converted to git

The gnubg CVS repository has now been converted to git. The anonymous, read-only access URLs is https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnubg.git and the read-write one @git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/gnubg.git See https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=gnubg for further information on how to use git at

Conversion to git: mapping cvs userids to git authors

When converting the gnubg CVS repository to git, it will be necessary to map the savannah accounts used with cvs to git authors, with a format of: Full Name I extracted a list of all cvs commits and their authors and could find almost all names and (possibly obsolete) addresses in the

GNUbg version 1.08.002 available

A new version of GNUbg is available at https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/ The changes since 1.08.001 are: fixes for the following bugs: - gnubgautorc file corruption - "Analyse/Show Records" becoming inactive after using "Analyse/Show Records/Plot History" - a quirk in the "Move" entry in

Re: Suggestion for improvement of Temperature Map for Cube decisions.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 10:08:49AM +, Ian Shaw wrote: > In the Facebook group Backgammon News, Wayne Joseph raised some > questions about the values displayed in the Temperature map. I've > posted extracts from the discussion below for context, but the gist of > it is. > > The user was

Preview of forthcoming gnubg release

I have uploaded a new gnubg Windows build at http://philippe.michel7.free.fr/gnubg/ This should fix the bugs in 1.08.001 reported here or by other means: - the gnubgautorc file corruption - the "Move" quirk in the GUI menus - "Analyse/Show Records" becoming inactive after using "Analyse/Show

Re: Where is collect location of gtk20.mo on Windows?

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 06:03:39PM +0900, TAKAHASHI Kaoru wrote: > I have installed gnubg-1_08_001-20240204-setup.exe to > %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\gnubg\. > [...] > But I don't know where to put gtk20.mo correctly. > > I have tried the following directories: >

Re: Display bug in Analyse, Clear Analysis, Move

Guido Flohr wrote: > That means that probably `N_(”noun|Move”)` should be replaced with > `NC_(”noun”, ”Move”)` instead, see > https://developer-old.gnome.org/glib/unstable/glib-I18N.html#NC-:CAPS. and later: > This structure is passed to `gtk_action_group_add_actions()` and the >

Problems with gnubg's saved settings

On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:13:00AM +0200, Isaac Keslassy wrote: > 1) SAVING SETTINGS: I have also had the problem of gnubg 1.08 not saving > settings, or rather, reporting that it is saving them but not loading them. > Reinstalling gnubg doesn't help. It only worked for me once I selected to >

Weights file

On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 09:58:24PM +0100, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote: > Do you have the raw neural network weight files? The source file used by gnubg is in th CVS repository: https://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/gnubg/gnubg/gnubg.weights?revision=1.4 I have uploded it in the

GNUbg version 1.08.001 available

A new version of GNUbg is available at https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/ with the following improvements or new features since the previous version. Playing skill: Improvement to cube decisions at 0- and 1-ply and weaker levels. Cube error rates are approximately halved and the repartition of

Re: Need a little help with Python script error

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 10:43:48PM -0700, MK wrote: > With whatever bits of documentation I could find, I was able to > write my first simple script to play a money game against the bot. > > It tries to duplicate a experiment done a couple of years ago in > RGB by Axel, doubling at >50% and

Re: Improved gnubg filenaming convention - suggestion

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 02:08:23PM +, Ian Shaw via Bug reports for and general discussion about GNU Backgammon. wrote: > The file file.c has a function GetFilename which includes the line > > if (mi.nYear) > sz = g_strdup_printf("%s-%s_%dp_%04u-%02u-%02u.sgf", >

New gnubg preview

I have uploaded a Windows build of the current CVS sources there: http://philippe.michel7.free.fr/gnubg/ Barring the discovery of critical bugs, I intent to tag a 1.08 release essentially identical to this before the end of the month and build a source archive and a Windows installer. Then I

Re: updated gnubg benchmark files

On Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 09:06:12PM -0500, Mark Higgins wrote: > I know Philippe Michel at some point created new benchmark databases; the > list archive has the message here: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnubg/2012-08/msg00010.html > > Those links don't work an

Re: GNU backgammon - random starting point?

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 02:15:27PM -0500, Flurn Zero One wrote: >     Is there a way to start a game in GNU backgammon at a random starting > point, instead of starting from the beginning?  I'm using Windows, if that > makes any difference. Do you mean a randomly generated position, or an

Re: New backgammon engine: wildbg

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 11:21:00AM -0800, Trevor Slocum wrote: > I have drafted an initial specification of a Universal Backgammon Interface > (UBI). > > This protocol facilitates interoperable communication between backgammon > engines and clients. I have some comments on the item and the

Re: GNU API Use Clarification

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 04:08:16PM -0400, Joe Mazraani wrote: > I was curious to know if it was possible to integrate GNU's web API as part > of an online Backgammon gaming platform? I don't have a strong background > in computer science, so apologies if this was covered somewhere on a GitHub >

Re: Suggestions;

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 12:45:15PM +0330, Amir Ranjbaryan wrote: > Please consider the following items in the upcoming update. > [...] > 3- The memory (cache) used can be increased to 32 GB even higher. Large caches are useful only in very long rollouts. It depends on the number of positions

Re: GNUbg development build - BUG Report: Can't change options without moving window

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 09:36:22AM +0100, Philippe Michel wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 09:07:07AM +, Ian Shaw wrote: > > > > After changing an option, the window becomes unresponsive until I > > reposition it by dragging the title bar. > [..] > > GNU Ba

Re: GNUbg development build - BUG Report: Can't change options without moving window

On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 09:07:07AM +, Ian Shaw wrote: > > > After changing an option, the window becomes unresponsive until I > reposition it by dragging the title bar. [..] > GNU Backgammon 1.08.dev-mingw 32-Bit 20230709 > > 64-bit Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 OS build 19045.3271 Windows

Re: GNUbg development build - BUG Report: Can't change options without moving window

On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 09:07:07AM +, Ian Shaw wrote: > > > After changing an option, the window becomes unresponsive until I > reposition it by dragging the title bar. [..] > GNU Backgammon 1.08.dev-mingw 32-Bit 20230709 > > 64-bit Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 OS build 19045.3271 Windows

Re: GNUbg development build - BUG Report: Can't change options without moving window

On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 09:07:07AM +, Ian Shaw wrote: > > > After changing an option, the window becomes unresponsive until I > reposition it by dragging the title bar. [..] > GNU Backgammon 1.08.dev-mingw 32-Bit 20230709 > > 64-bit Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 OS build 19045.3271 Windows

Re: GNUbg development build

On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 08:43:29AM +1200, Joseph Heled wrote: > Well, it's not broken, but the user experience is terrible. The menus are > on a "feel" and not "see" status (see clip) I don't think the issue comes from gnubg (besides the fact that it is build with gtk2) but from the graphical

Re: GNUbg development build

On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 12:22:28AM +0100, Richard Buckle wrote: > To the CVS repo? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought gnubg had > migrated to Git and a repo on GitHub. > > Genuine question. Not everything is comited to CVS yet. And the question is perfectly legitimate, but, although the

Re: GNUbg development build

On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 10:03:14AM +1200, Joseph Heled wrote: > Hi, > > All great, but let me complain a little. I am running 1.06.002 on Linux. > Old distro (I have some software which is not supported in later versions), > and the user experience is terrible due to, I am assuming GTK. Terrible

GNUbg development build

I have uploaded a gnubg Windows build at http://philippe.michel7.free.fr/gnubg/ The corresponding sources (with most changes not yet commited to the cvs repository) and the translations' .po files are available there as well. The most significant changes are contributions from Isaac Keslassy

Re: GnuBG - Money Game Sessions [ Request ]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 11:10:23AM +0100, Dariusz Stachowski wrote: > 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

Re: GNU Backgammon Translation into Ukrainian

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 08:45:46AM +0200, Андрій Рак wrote: > Good afternoon. > I, EGYT, am from Ukraine and I would like to translate GNUBG into > Ukrainian. I would be very grateful if I could get a .po file with all the > text in the game, because the English (US) translation has only 1464

Mersenne RNG (was: upcoming gnubg features + button survey)

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:30:40PM +0200, Isaac Keslassy wrote about Mersenne twister RNG: > It seems that it has been updated online in 2011 > (http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/m-mat/MT/emt.html), if someone > wants to introduce that in gnubg. I took a look at this new version. A nice

Re: Problem with gnubg

On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 09:30:22PM +, rbayer...@juno.com wrote: > I have been running 1.06 for some time, but it no longer works - > crashes with a segmentation fault when I try to make a move. > I downloaded and installed 1.07, and it works, but only in the text > form. I cannot see how

Unsubscribing from the list

On Tue, Jan 03, 2023, EDWARD GOLDBERG wrote: > Is it possible to remove me from this list please? You should use the last feature from this page: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg Best regards, Philippe Michel

Re: Development - an outsider’s perspective

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 12:46:44PM +, Carsten Wenderdel wrote: > 2. Separation of concerns > > If you want to play around with inputs and evaluation, develop a bot > or another GUI it would be very helpful to have a core gnubg library > without application code. For example a simple C or

Re: Development - an outsider’s perspective

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 12:46:44PM +, Carsten Wenderdel wrote: > 1. Build issues > > Last weekend I tried to compile gnubg on my M1 Mac and I couldn’t make > it compile under macOS. A few months ago I was contacted by someone who was trying to do exactly that. There were a few issues in

Re: AW: Development - an outsider’s perspective

Hello Carsten, I agree that using git would have many advantages. I had tried to convert the repository (with cvs-fast-export) some time ago, but I'm not too familiar with git and wasn't sure the result was right. The documentation of cvs-fast-export gives a lot of warnings... On the other

Re: Preview of forthcoming gnubg release

Nobody mentionned it (yet), but I'll add a few words about macOS. I have been in contact with two persons who respectively: - used the Windows version sucessfully with a recent version of Wine on an Intel-based Mac (it failed with an older version of Wine) - built it from source on an

Re: Preview of forthcoming gnubg release

On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 03:40:34PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'll also update the Debian packages once there's a new tarball release, > which will propagate into Ubuntu and other downstream distributions as > normal. Regarding Linux builds, there may be an issue (not specific to this new

Re: Preview of forthcoming gnubg release

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 04:04:01PM -0700, guyschwartz wrote: > Is there a version for android? There used to be an Android app build on gnubg by an independant team, but it doesn't seem to be maintained nor available any more. See https://github.com/alcacoop/it.alcacoop.backgammon

GNUbg version 1.07.001 available

A new version of gnubg is available at https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/ Besides bug fixes, there are four significant changes since the 1.06 version - the "score map" feature contributed by Aaron Tikuisis and Isaac Keslassy is included. This simultaneously shows chequer play or cube

Preview of forthcoming gnubg release

I have uploaded a new gnubg Windows build at http://philippe.michel7.free.fr/gnubg/ If not for a report of a serious issue I will use this version for a release next week. The corresponding sources (with a few minor changes not yet commited to the cvs repository) and the translations' .po

Re: Tools to convert xg file format to sgf

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:55:36PM -0400, Turker Eflanli wrote: > It just parses the file, with the python scripts [...] If you're familiar with python you could consider using gnubg's internal python interpreter (accessed with a ">" in gnubg's CLI). For instance you could try something like

Re: A very old bug reported on RGB

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 04:21:52PM -0600, MK wrote: > I'm sending you files that should help you even better. [...] Indeed, the session sgf file you attached explains the issue (the gnubgrc files have nothing special). The sgf file is the result of a session, but it is not really analyzed. It

Re: A very old bug reported on RGB

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 06:14:30PM -0600, MK wrote: > Since then, I tried a dozen combinations on two computers. > > Noise being 1.0 or 0.9 etc. doesn't make a difference. > > Noise being deterministic or not doesn't make a difference. > > It happens with even plies 0, 2, 4 but not odd plies

Re: Preview of next gnubg release

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 10:34:52PM +0200, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote: > I found another glitch! When setting up a position in edit mode, and then > releasing the edit button, I am not able to roll the dice on my turn. This > is indeed different behaviour compared to linux build and the

Re: A very old bug reported on RGB

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 08:22:00PM +, playbg-...@yahoo.com wrote: > https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.backgammon/c/kJM9O57Lu8Y/m/ZF7bkiQgBQAJ > > On September 12, 2022 at 9:58:31 AM UTC+2, MK wrote: > > > I set one player to Grandmaster checker and cube, one player > > to Grandmaster

Re: Hyper gammon

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 09:55:37AM +, Ian Shaw wrote: > I’ve retested on windows: GNU Backgammon 1.06.002-mingw 32-Bit 20180802 > > This is the output I get. > > makehyper -c 2 -f hyper2.bd > Unknown keyword `makehyper'. >From the error message, Unknown keyword, it looks like you tried

Re: Hyper gammon

I'm sorry if I seemed critical or harsh. Although I'm not familiar witth Debian I should have searched further than I did (that is, the man page). Regarding the files locations, I agree with the principles you give. > However, the deeper problem is that files that are generated by the user >

Re: Hyper gammon

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.

Preview of next gnubg release

I have uploaded a gnubg Windows build that should be close to its next release at http://philippe.michel7.free.fr/gnubg/ The corresponding sources (with a few minor changes not yet commited to the cvs repository) and the translations' .po files are available there as well. Besides bug fixes,

Re: Cube-info dictionary type error on linux cli using Python 3.9.2

On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 10:38:32PM +0100, Jim Segrave wrote: > I need to look at this in depth- on my host the default python is 2.75 > (even thouogh nowadays I almost always use python3) and it does what it > used to. > > I really don't remember how the Python integration works, athough I once

Re: gnubg score map feature

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 03:00:30PM +, Aaron Tikuisis wrote: > I think I'd rather just post the code on savannah. I see that there > have been changes to the code since the version we worked with, so I > will merge and check that there are no conflicts, in the next few > days, before

Re: gnubg-1_06_002-20180802-setup.exe Win10 Crashes

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 09:43:53AM -0500, James Eric Bjornsson wrote: > After installation, select "settings/options".  Crash.  Happens every > time on my Win10 system. This looks similar to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?60849 Could you try the commands mentionned there in gnubg-cli

Re: No command line?

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 09:23:49PM +0100, Jim Segrave wrote: > And I then run gnubg: > > /usr/local/bin/gnubg -t -c /tmp/4413280.cmd > > This works exactly as it should On Windows the equivalent of gnubg -t is gnubg-cli.exe and the -c option works juste the same :

Re: Download link not working for Windows

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:58:13PM +, Bello, Carlos wrote: > I went to the following link to download the GNU Backgammon ( > gnubg-1_06_002-20180802-setup.exe.) > > It doesn't work. Is there another link? I just tried to

Re: Add analysis to database in CLI mode.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 04:16:02PM +, Phineas Greene wrote: > [...] I want to add the analysis to an SQLite database. It's very easy > to do in the GUI, you just click "Add to DB". I cannot, however, find > a command to do this in CLI mode. Is there a command, and if not, are > there any

SQL question

A few weeks ago, someone reported two bugs (#59208 and #59209) in the way match results are stored in the database. I have committed a fix when for new entries, but existing ones have to be updated directly in the database. The commands below should work for sqlite3 but I think it should be

Re: gnubg: new features

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 07:22:02PM +0200, Isaac Keslassy wrote: > We are happy to present three new features of gnubg on which we have > been working quite a lot. We hope you will enjoy them. Well done. This gives access to a lot of useful information, yet in a very natural and intuitive way.

Re: Settings, Options bug

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 04:29:37AM +0100, Daniel Ricketts wrote: > Whenever I go to Settings Options lately, the program just shuts > down. I wanted to change the dice rolling program (not a fan of > Mercennes Twister). Did you change the random number generator to Blum, Blum ad Shub ? In

Re: The status of gnubg?

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:45:10AM +, Aaron Tikuisis wrote: > I'd even be happy to contribute, even if only in a small way. For > example, I'm reading through the code and perhaps as I understand > things I could add comments (e.g., I'd like to figure out what the > inputs I_BACKBONE and

Re: The status of gnubg?

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 04:19:32PM +, Aaron Tikuisis wrote: > How often/recently is the gnubg NN retrained? Do we think it can be > improved much? The current nets date back from 2012. They certainly can be improved, but to make a difference one would need some useful change in either the

Re: Error while generating bearoff database

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:59:20AM +0200, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote: > A huge onesided non-contact database like this will misplay a lot of > positions. Is it really that bad ? I thought that, as long as one does not use shortcuts like the --no-gammons and --normal-dist options,

Re: Error while generating bearoff database

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:59:20AM +0200, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote: > Could be (I'm not sure as I have not tried) it helps if we change the type > of iOffset to unsigned long instead of long. Or maybe even type size_t, > which is probably the type the fseek() expects. > > No, answering

Re: Error while generating bearoff database

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 12:14:19PM +0200, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote: > maybe there should be a warning, or at least a check that stops the > execution. Such a check was added a few month ago, after a similar bug report (I don't remember if it was in this list or by some other mean) and

Re: Bug in rollout ?

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 06:22:28PM +0200, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote: > I strongly believe that this is a pretty simple position to play For a neural net this is not so clear. With 7 men stacked on the 7 point this is a position that will never happen in real play and is unlikely in

Re: Training data set url?

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 07:11:15PM +0200, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote: > I'm looking for the training data again, and I know that it used to be here: > http://files.gnubg.com/media/nn-training/pmichel/training_data/ > > It looks like it's not available anymore. Does anyone know where I can

Re: Bug: Getting dice from random.org for the second time

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 05:09:44PM +0200, Christian Anthon wrote: > Definitely a bug of some kind. The dice generator either runs out > prematurely or decides that 0 is a valid rolid. I added a bit of debug code > and it ended around 450 rolls each time and decided to return 0... I confess ; I

Re: Status of GTK 3 support?

On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 02:36:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Debian is starting to look at slowly retiring GTK 2, at least as much as > possible and with an understanding that it will take a long time. I see > that GnuBG has experimental support for GTK 3, but I'm not sure how > unstable

Re: Bug: Getting dice from random.org for the second time

On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 02:40:24PM +0200, Peter Lederer wrote: > I use GNU Backgammon 1.06.001 Feb 28 2018 on Linux Mint 19.3 as it > comes from the distribution repository. > > As dice generator I use random.org. The fetching of the first 500 dice > works fine. When required to receive the

Re: random.org

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 08:34:44AM +, Mark Space wrote: > I installed the latest version of GNU Backgammon from your site and > selected random.org as the dice generator. However, I can confirm that > dice rolls do not take the numbers from random.org as I have also > monitored all the

Re: Difficulty downloading program. Gnu downloading. Please help. Thks.

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:59:01PM +, rufus sanders wrote: ... nothing more than what is in the subject header: "Difficulty downloading program. Gnu downloading. Please help. Thks." Seriouly, how do you expect anybody could help you with such a vague question ? Your message was sent from

Re: makehyper

On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 09:55:14AM -0400, Timothy Y. Chow wrote: > I recently learned about makehyper. A friend of mine ran it on his > computer and it seemed to terminate successfully. I would like to be able > to examine the equities using my own C programs, rather than using them > inside

Re: gnu hint problem{so fast}

On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 03:23:11PM +, Ian Shaw wrote: > Developers, perhaps gnubg could use the Delay and Animation settings > when using the Show or Move commands. I'm not convinced it would work very well, especially for Show (which is not really a command, rather a switch : show the

Re: program improvement

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 12:36:37PM +0200, 30146 via Bug reports for and general discussion about GNU Backgammon. wrote: > Is it possible to add to the program, when the result is known, against > whom we were enjoying. > The level of the opponent. When the opponent is GNUbg, its name is not

Re: Gnubg update

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 07:12:09PM +1300, Joe Dowling wrote: > I met Nardy years ago in Amsterdam and he put me onto this amazing > programme. I have been using it for practice ever since and I love it. > > Unfortunately, I just updated my mac to the latest operatig system and Gnu > no longer

Re: Previous games wiped when changing player name

On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 03:08:25PM +, Ian Shaw wrote: > Gnubg wipes out previous games when changing the player name. > > During the second game of a match, I realised that the player names > were as set during a previous session. I edited the name of player 0 > to 'gnubg', and the records

Re: GnuBG doesn't use full cpu power

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 03:29:09PM +, mnarim...@protonmail.com wrote: > I recently noticed that GnuBG doesn't use 100% of CPU when it's > searching for a hint or analyzing a game. It uses around 15% of CPU > power. > I have increased Cache and Thread Count in settings but it didn't >

Re: FW: current development

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 04:07:41PM +, Sarah Payne wrote: > How would you prefer people contact you if they are interested / want > to find out more about working on the project? I suppose the simplest way would be to write to the bug-gnubg@gnu.org list. If they prefer not to write to a

Re: current development

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 09:51:20AM +1300, Joseph Heled wrote: > What are "roller levels"? Short truncated rollouts used instead of higher plies evaluations. In term of accuracy / CPU time, they are more efficient than more plies. Tesauro describes their application to backgammon evaluations in

Re: current development

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:15:16AM +, Sarah Payne wrote: > In my opinion, a phone version would broaden appeal / access but the > most critical issue is the neural nets. XG feels like a very different > animal as an opponent - noticeably more opportunistic & aggressive, so > some degree of

Re: current development

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:28:04AM +, Sarah Payne wrote: > For sure, I would expect gnu still to have some playing strengths > against xg. That’s what is so impressive: how it’s still as strong as > it is with no new recent versions. You wording is somewhat confusing. The last major

Re: Anything newer ?

med worth mentionning in the ChangeLog file were: 2019-02-24 Philippe Michel * gnubg.c: Decrease doubtful/bad/very bad thresholds in analysis results from 0.04/0.08/0.16 to 0.03/0.06/0.12 point. 2019-01-10 Philippe Michel * gtkgame.c: Do not offer levels weaker t

Re: OpenSuse 15.1 no display for gnu-bg

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 08:10:27AM +0100, I wrote: > [...] your problem may be due to the > following issue (gnubg 1.04 is older than that): > > 2015-10-07 Michael Petch > Fix problem identified by > Mike Frysinger where __attribute__ and _GNU_SOURCE may not > be

Re: OpenSuse 15.1 no display for gnu-bg

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 03:22:13PM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I (at last, but never mind that) updated my OpenSuse 15.0 to 15.1. The > update looked > clean. The only problem I have run into is that gnu-bg does not produce any > output. > (It worked properly when I was running 15.0) I'm

Re: EPC correction

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 04:09:56AM -0700, David Klausa wrote: > I'll work on that. > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 1:46 AM Christian Anthon > wrote: > > > If somebody rewrites the text, I should be able to update the pages. I had updated the EPC example (and a few other minor points) a few days

Re: Question regarding python scripting

On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 10:20:42PM +, Cihan Göksu wrote: > Is there a way to communicate between the interactive pyshell (by typing > ">") and an external python script? For example, how can I send commands > to py Interactive shells via another python script? Is it possible to > import

Re: Temporal difference learning. Lambda parameter.

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 01:12:34PM +0100, Øystein Schønning-Johansen wrote: > The reinforcement learning that has been used up til now is plain temporal > difference learning like described in Sutton and Barto (and done by several > science projects) with TD(lambda=0). I don't think this is the

Re: current development

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 11:31:33AM -0500, Timothy Y. Chow wrote: > As I recall, in the past, people have tried specifically training neural > nets on positions like these, as well as "snake" positions where you have > to roll a prime for a long distance, and the problem was that it seemed to >

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