Philippe Michel <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 07:51:16PM +0900, TAKAHASHI Kaoru wrote:
>> Naoki Iketani (GM) and I created MET for BackgammonGalaxy's coin game
>> analysis. The MET is named galaxycoin.met.
>>
>> For example, in a Coin Game with Limit: 8k and Stake: 1k, only the game
>> record of the first game of an 8point match can be downloaded in
>> BackgammonGalaxy's coin game. In this case, the 8away part of the
>> galaxycoin.met is used depending on the cube size.
>>
>> For precise analysis, it is necessary to implement Jacoby rule support
>> in point match, but by using galaxycoin.met, BackgammonGalaxy's coin
>> game analysis that considers TableLimit can be performed.
>
> The special MET is a quick hack to analyze (not entirely accurately, as
> you point) these kind of games with gnubg as it is, but if one wants to
> add code to improve this, implementing table stakes for unlimited
> sessions seems preferable to me. It may even be simpler than supporting
> the Jacoby rule in matches.
I also think implementing table stakes for unlimited sessions is the
proper approach.
>> By the way, supporting the Jacoby rule in point match can be useful in
>> the following situations analysis:
>> - Game record from coin game on Backgammon Galaxy (with galaxycoin.met)
>> - Game record from Jacoby:On Hypergammon match on Backgammon Studio Heroes
>
> Could you show examples of exports of these games ?
> Do they have some kind of "; [TableLimit 8]" comment in the header ?
> Are they directly exported as a 8 points matchi, or a 0 point match and
> you have to edit this line before analyzing them ?
They are directly exported as an 8 points match.
No [TableLimit X] or [Jacoby "On"] comments.
stake:100 limit:800 example (changed match-id & player name):
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; [Site "BackgammonGalaxy"]
; [Match ID "32074835"]
; [Player 1 "**********"]
; [Player 2 "************"]
; [Player 1 Elo "2,00/0"]
; [Player 2 Elo "0,00/0"]
; [EventDate "2026.01.21"]
; [EventTime "14.17"]
; [Variation "Backgammon"]
; [Unrated "Off"]
; [Crawford "On"]
; [CubeLimit "1024"]
8 point match
Game 1
********** : 0 ************ : 0
1) 64: 8/2 6/2
2) 42: 8/4 6/4 65: 24/18 18/13
[snip]
30) 54: 13/8 8/4 63:
31) Doubles => 4 Drops
Wins 2 point
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stake:100 limit:100 example (changed match-id & player name):
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; [Site "BackgammonGalaxy"]
; [Match ID "320*****"]
; [Player 1 "************"]
; [Player 2 "*****"]
; [Player 1 Elo "1,00/0"]
; [Player 2 Elo "0,00/0"]
; [EventDate "2026.01.21"]
; [EventTime "14.11"]
; [Variation "Backgammon"]
; [Unrated "Off"]
; [Crawford "On"]
; [CubeLimit "1024"]
1 point match
Game 1
************ : 0 ***** : 0
1) 42: 8/4 6/4 53: 8/3 6/3
2) 64: 24/18 18/14 53: 13/8 13/10
[snip]
25) 65: 6/1 6/0 Losses 1 point
Wins 1 point and the match
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TAKAHASHI Kaoru
