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DESCRIPTION
BGBlitz has the by far strongest gameplay of all commercial backgammon games on the Mac, is the winner of the 2003 Computer BG World Championship and is the winner of the 7th Computer Olympiad 2002. Some of its features:
- Play against BGBlitz, with it's top neural net technology
- Easy to use
- Superb graphics
- Play over TCP/IP against a opponent at a different computer
- Rollout Positions.
- Let the tutor improve your play.
- Train your skill with position quiz databases.
- Analyze interesting positions.
- Train your cube handling in matchplay.
- Supported languages are English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Hebrew,Swedish,Catalan
- And much more...
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6.2 is a bug fix release.
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Drag&Drop support was broken in 2.6.0
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An error in the match database introduced in 2.6.0 is fixed. Additionally
BGBlitz recognizes the broken databases and repairs them at the start.
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some bugs in the presentation of the rollout results were fixed, especially ASCII and HTML export.
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I reduced the playing strength of the weaker levels. There was feedback that they are still far to strong for casual players. One user told me that an analyse he made says that even "Beginner" is still at world class level. Surely not what I intended.
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some smaller bugfixes
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, Universal Binary.
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| BGBlitz X User Reviews (14 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Apr 19 2008 |
FLASH1296 I love BG Blitz. There is simply nothing near its level for Macs. "Absolute Backgammon" is just for casual players. THIS is for those who wish to IMPROVE their game, taking it to a new level. I have played in tournaments across the USA between 1985 and 2006. I know of what i speak, and I have the trophies to prove it.
(Version 2.5.2) | |
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 | Mar 10 2007 |
Nothing else to say, except "Absolute Backgammon". | |
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 | Mar 11 2007 |
FRANK@BGBLITZ.COM It would be nice if you would argue somehow, what do you like at Absolute BG. Then I could answer to you. By the way: I regard playing strength as important. If you believe it's comparable or even better than BGBlitz, what about about some money games. My only requirement is that I want to be sure to play against Absolut BG. I want to be fair: I strongly recommend you to ask someone that knows about BG. If he knows both programms he will warn you.
(Version 2.2.1) | |
| Mar 11 2007 |
FRANK@BGBLITZ.COM One addition: I just checked your posting about Abs. If you really want to improve your playing skill in BG, you should closely look at BGBlitz. If you have problems with whatever I can help you, but if you want to play better than so so there are only two programs on the Mac available. Abs BG is not one of this.
(Version 2.2.1) | |
| Mar 16 2008 |
HOLYPOLY And the rest be silence ;)
(Version 2.5.1) | |
| Dec 29 2005 |
PIMENTOS Simply the best backgammon game presently available for mac user's. Nothing else to say.
(Version 1.9.5) | |
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| Sep 19 2005 |
TECNIK What a bunch of ungrateful dorks! This game rocks! What a concept...a Mac game, with no blood, and you actually have to think. Yea, it kicks my @ss if I play stupid. That's with it set to intermediate skill. I thank those coders who work endless, thankless, payless hours, to create for Macs. In case you haven't noticed...elegant & innovative Mac software has steadily faded away over the years (think Adobe and StuffIt just recently). Blame King Jobs. Many great wares started on Apple, now they don't remember us any more. Soon you'll have just Solitaire, Mines... Thank you Frank, MacAddicts DO appreciate your efforts!
(Version 1.9.5) | |
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 | Jun 26 2005 |
FRANK@BGBLITZ.COM Have you used the BGBlitz_Tiger starter? Or the BGBLitz_Panther starter? The later is in fact unplayable slow, thanks to the new Java release in 10.4. The BGBlitz_Tiger has no problems, at least till now it had worked for all people that tried it. If you have problems with BGBlitz_tiger please email me. | |
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| Jun 26 2005 |
ERIC HSU trying this out on 10.4.1, PB G4, 2gb RAM. The graphics are extremely, unplayably slow, on 'fast checker' when you click on a piece to move it. I tried to tweak the other settings (dynamic, etc) but it was all extremely sluggish. Anyone else have this problem?
(Version 1.9.4) | |
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| Jun 26 2005 |
FRANK@BGBLITZ.COM Have you used the BGBlitz_Tiger starter? Or the BGBLitz_Panther starter? The later is in fact unplayable slow, thanks to the new Java release in 10.4. The BGBlitz_Tiger has no problems, at least till now it had worked for all people that tried it. If you have problems with BGBlitz_tiger please email me. | |
| Sep 8 2004 |
Clicking the download link causes the file to download as code to the browser window. (in Camino, at least) Fileserver filetype needs to be fixed! Camino 8.1 never recovered, even after the file was finished. -- Great game BTW ---
(Version 1.9) | |
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| Mar 28 2005 |
FRANK BERGER I fixed the file type. Thanks for the hint.
(Version 1.9) | |
| Feb 13 2004 |
Could you please send me the games log file (log.txt) or the game if you saved the game? You're the first complaining this error. Did this happen more than once or is it even reproducable? Please contact me so I can try to find out what was happening. If this a frequent error BGBlitz wouldn't have achieved the title of a World Champion recently.... (2/13/2004, Version: 1.7.1) | |
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| Jan 17 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Playing v.1.6 with three men left for black and two for white (ThaiAI), black rolls double 4's and removes all men, game continues and white (computer) rolls double 5's and wins games. Odd and unacceptable.
(Version 1.7.1) | |
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| Feb 13 2004 |
FRANK BERGER Could you please send me the games log file (log.txt) or the game if you saved the game? You're the first complaining this error. Did this happen more than once or is it even reproducable? Please contact me so I can try to find out what was happening. If this a frequent error BGBlitz wouldn't have achieved the title of a World Champion recently....
(Version 1.7.1) | |
| Mar 28 2005 |
FRANK BERGER Finally I could reproduce the problem. Has been fixed with 1.8 and 1.9 Thanks for that hint
(Version 1.9) | |
| Dec 4 2003 |
ANONYMOUS I love BGBlitz. I don't think it cheats. In fact, it's interesting. I REGULARLY feel like Jellyfish is cheating, and have literally hundreds of instances where I would "undo" a joker and have it reroll only to have it reroll a joker the next 10 to 12 times. For example, need a 2 to hit and come in against a 5 pt. board. JF has regularly rolled it 10 times in a row and up. I never get this with BGBlitz. JF absolutely slaughters me, which is interesting, because I seem to play roughly equal with Snowie and BGBlitz! So something "fishy" is going on.
(Version 1.6) | |
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