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Backgammon Coach

Backgammon Coach is an application which allows you to play backgammon against the computer, at the highest level, and obtain mathematical indications about the best possible moves. It is an excellent partner to play against and improve your backgammon skills at the same time.
Category Price Seller Device
Games $6.99 Laurent Pichon iPhone, iPad, iPod

Founded on the GNU Backgammon neural network, an artificial intelligence research project, recognized for its decision making ability, Backgammon Coach joins the world's best players.

Backgammon Coach is also the only backgammon application able to prove that it doesn’t cheat, by simply offering the opportunity to manualy throw dices and to see that it doesn’t change anything…

If you feel otherwise we recommend that you keep the fair-play attitude of top players facing bad luck. Also remember that the computer is excellent at calculating and knows how to best position itself so that a higher number of dice combination will be in its favour. You can try to act as the computer checking the probability at your disposal.

If the computer’s level is too high for your liking you may choose a lower level in options which will increase your chances to winning. However it is recommend that you use the higher levels with the assistance of the Coach function to improve your game.

See below included functions:
- Full user guide
- How to manage match games and money games
- Coach assistance with one single touch
- 3 levels of game offered (beginner, intermediate, expert)
- Distinct game levels for the computer and for the Coach
- Possibility to personalize game levels parameters
- Arrows you can move to are marked
- Pip count
- Display of previous dice rolled
- Possibility to perform a positional analysis
- ID position
- Crawford rule, Jacoby rule and Egyptian rule
- 5 different options for randomizing
- Possibility to use manual dice rolling
- Possibility to use the doubling cube
- Automatic doubling option at the beginning of a game
- Beaver doubling allowed
- Separate game statistics for each level
- Scores are cumulated for money games
- Possibility to resign a game
- Drops are accounted for
- Possibility to configure the neural network parameters
- Gnubg console available for advanced users

Enjoy the games !

Reviews

Needs work
pacer1234567

Inelegant. Needs a lot of work.


Best backgammon game ever!!!
Bluto59

This is a Fantastic game.


Still room to go
Chubbyp

Updated Review: From 2 to 3 stars After update, the app now allows the checkers to be moved and dice to be set in analysis mode. The analysis feature does not include cube decisions, or the ability to set match score, so there is definitely room to go. Main reason I got this was for position analysis.... But when I enter that mode it does not let me move any checkers! Also experienced occasional crashing. That said, the AI is world class.


Freezes
DaJuLee

Freezes on the latest iOS!! Cannot play anymore - update needed!


Ok game but very unfair
Cfh211

Great game, high skill level. But a MAJOR complaint is a strong bias toward the computer on rolls, which are highly statistically improbable. 4 or 5 doubles in a row, gets off of the bar almost every time, etc. Would be a much better game if it were more realistic in this regard.


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