Program cheats – Absolute Backgammon Lite Review

This backgammon gets quite an edge by picking the dice to suit the situation. It has a consistent but not constant bias towards good rolls for the program and poor rolls for the human. It is common for people to think a program cheats, and I usually dismiss the comments and am very reluctant to even now make this accusation. I don't have a problem with this cheating being an option in the configuration of how to play the game. On the plus side, being an option, but using cheating as a way to increase wins from a computer program makes playing this program useless to practice for playing against humans. If you adapt to its playing style, you will play very conservatively, because taking chances is unlikely to pay off. Some degree of stats are kept, and the bias shows in the number of doubles, and the total dice count. I think the lower skill levels of the computer program do not cheat. The dice rolls (a couple hundred) should be, on request, copied to the clipboard at the outset of the game. If a person uses that info to cheat, they are only hurting themselves. To be clear, I think this kind of cheating is legitimate as part of the game if it clear that the program is doing that . A good program, like a good human player, does not need to cheat.
Review by Dave FV on Absolute Backgammon Lite.