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From: Owen.RANSEN@cern.ch (Owen RANSEN)
Subject: Re: Backgammon, specifically source code
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In article <3l9696$d8c@jake.esu.edu>, belliott@cutter.ship.edu says...
>
>I am beginning some research on backgammon games.
>
>If anyone has any backgammon games, especially the source code 
>for them, I would appreciate your sending them or their sites.
>
>I plan to examine the algorithms used, AI or otherwise.
>
>Also, if anyone can point me toward a site with research available 
>on the topic, that would be great.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Patrick Belliotti
>belliott@cutter.ship.edu
>Shippensburg University, PA
>
I wrote a backgammon game two or three years ago which used statistical
analyses of certain weights (number of blots, longest contiguous block,
occupation of specific points and so on).

I might be willing to let you have the source if you tell me what it is
for and acknowledge my authorship!

It plays reasonably well, but experts can beat it easily most of the time,
and beginners think it cheats!

It follows the International Backgammon rules on when you can double
and so on.

It was written for DOS VGA graphics with Borland C 3.1.

