Backgammon

Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players in which the playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. Players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits. Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games in the world. This software creates a software based version of the classic game.

Strategy

Although luck is involved and factors into the outcome, strategy plays a more important role in the long run. With each roll of the dice players must choose from numerous options for moving their checkers and anticipate possible counter-moves by the opponent. Players may raise the stakes during the game. There is an established repertoire of common tactics and occurrences.

Features

* Play against the computer
* Play using either a 2D or 3D board
* A number of pre-defined board designs are supplied or the user may customize their own design
* Tournament match and money session handling
* Functions to generate legal moves and evaluate positions at varying search depths
* Loading and saving .sgf games and matches
* Exporting games and matches to HTML, LaTeX, .mat, PDF, PNG, PostScript and plain text formats
* Automatic and manual annotation (analysis and commentary) of games and matches
* Record keeping of statistics of players in games and matches

Windows Compatible:

* Windows XP
* Windows Vista
* Windows 7
* Windows 8
* Windows 8.1
* Windows 10