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[gfsd]GNU Backgammon's Free Software Directory entry


From: Gary Wong
Subject: [gfsd]GNU Backgammon's Free Software Directory entry
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:15:22 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

Hi,

  The Free Software Directory entry for GNU Backgammon ("backgammon" in the
FSD) is somewhat out of date.  Here is a diff of some suggested changes.

Thanks,
Gary.


--- /home/gtw/backgammon.txt.orig       Thu Feb 15 13:56:34 2001
+++ /home/gtw/backgammon.txt    Thu Feb 15 14:07:58 2001
@@ -11,29 +11,27 @@
 
 %%short-description: Plays and analyzes backgammon games and matches.
  
-%%full-description: So far the program is able to play cubeless games
-and tournament matches, evaluate and roll out positions, tune its own
-evaluation functions using either TD or supervised training, maintain
-databases of positions for training and other purposes, and more.
+%%full-description: So far the program is able to play both
+independent games and tournament matches, evaluate and roll out
+positions, tune its own evaluation functions using either TD or
+supervised training, maintain databases of positions for training and
+other purposes, and more.
 
 The program is driven by a command line interface, and displays an
-ASCII rendition of a board on text-only terminals, but also lets the
-user play games and manipulate positions with an X11 board window
-where available.
-
-The program currently plays at the level of an advanced flight
-tournament player (rated in the low 1800s on FIBS). Since almost all
-of the CPU time required during supervised training is spent
-performing rollouts, and rollouts can easily be performed in parallel,
-we hope that users will be able to pool rollout results and
-collectively train it to a level stronger than any individual could
-maintain.
+ASCII rendition of a board on text-only terminals, but also allows the
+user to play games and manipulate positions with a GTK+ board window
+where available.  It is extensible on platforms that support Guile.
+
+The program currently plays at the level of an advanced to open flight
+tournament player (depending what parameters are used, it rates
+between the high 1800s and low 2000s on FIBS, the First Internet
+Backgammon Server).
 
 %%category: games
 
 %%maintainer: Gary Wong <address@hidden>
 
-%%updated: 01 Mar 2000
+%%updated: 15 Feb 2001
 
 %%keywords: games, backgammon, matches, tournaments, supervised
 training, rollouts
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@
 
 %%support: 
 
-%%doc: User reference manual available at 
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gnubg/gnubg.html
+%%doc: English user reference from http://www.gnu.org/manual/gnubg/gnubg.html
 
 %%developers: Gary Wong <address@hidden>
 
@@ -77,13 +75,13 @@
 
 %%build-prerequisites:
 
-%%weak-prerequisites: readline, gdbm
+%%weak-prerequisites: readline, gdbm, gtk, guile
 
 %%source-prerequisites:
 
-%%version: 0.02 beta 03 Dec 1999
+%%version: 0.02 beta release on 3 Dec 1999
 
-%%announce-list:
+%%announce-list: address@hidden address@hidden
 
 %%announce-news:  
 
@@ -95,23 +93,4 @@
 
 %%dev-news:
 
-%%bug-list: address@hidden 
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+%%bug-list: address@hidden address@hidden

-- 
  Gary Wong    Consultant, Dependable Distributed Computing, AT&T Shannon Labs
        address@hidden            http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~gary/



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