Re: current development

Hi Joseph, > I was intentionally rude because I thought his original post was > inappropriate. How childish. We put up with your many posts detailing your failure to compile from source when a quick Google would have led to the method of using the package manager to install the build

Re: current development

Hi Joseph, > I thought so. > > I had the same idea the day I heard they cracked go, but just saying > something is a good idea is not helpful at all in my book. I think you're wrong. And also a bit rude to boot. It's fine for Tim to suggest or ponder an idea to the list. It may encourage

Re: current development

Joseph replied off-list... > An 8 "core" machine, i.e. fake intel count number > > $ grep -m1 '^model name' /proc/cpuinfo > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz > > in debian rules file: > SSE = --enable-simd=avx --enable-simd=sse2 --enable-threads -with-gtk >

Re: current development

Hi Joseph, > What we really need is someone with access to some computing power > (aka grid) to run a set of reference positions - 0-ply cube decisions > vs 2-ply, and see what the difference is. That would give a hint as to > what to do. How about reporting your grep -m1 '^model name'

Re: current development

Hi Russ, > case -2: > outputerrf(_("No cpuid check available\n")); > break; > case 0: > /* No SIMD support */ > break; > case 1: > /* SIMD support */ > simderror = FALSE; > break; ... >

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Gnu backgammon download for Windows

To whom it may concern, John wrote: > http://files.gnubg.org/media/windows/gnubg-1_06_002-20180802-setup.exe > but I get an error page that says "*files.gnubg.org > * took too long to respond" $ curl -sSgI

Re: [Bug-gnubg] Why does it move first about 80% of the time

Hi Wayne, > On the start roll, the software rolls a higher number over 80% of the > time regardless of who won the previous game. If random it should be > 50%. Explanation?? Over how big a sample of starting rolls is that 80% measured? Also, see

Re: [Bug-gnubg] My user name in download commands

Hi Dora, > cvs -z3 -d:ext:d...@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/gnubg co gnubg ... > and they suggested it may have to do with some job Savannah did while > I was logged in, picking up my user name. I don't think that's quite what they suggested. I took them to mean SourceForge must use your

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubackgammon

Hi Brenda, > > > > I have been playing gnubg backgammon got quite a while now and > > > > really enjoy it. When I used to load it, I always got the tool > > > > bar. Now suddenly I don't get that version any more. How can > > > > I get it back? > > > > Now every time I try to load it I get

Re: [Bug-gnubg] random dice generator? hahahaaa

Hi, How about suggesting the complainant play a real-life game against a human, with a board and pieces, and that the complainant visibly cheats by doing what gnubg tells it. Entering the real dice's rolls manually into gnubg might then seem less tedious since there's the interaction with the

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg Offered Odd Backgammon Resignation.

Hi Ian, > I'm guessing that it's something to do with the match score that > affected how gnubg offers a resignation. For example, maybe 2 points > was enough for you to win the match anyway, so it didn't matter > whether gnubg conceded 2 or 3. I think you're right, but that it is wrong for

[Bug-gnubg] gnubg Offered Odd Backgammon Resignation.

Hi, gnubg 1.05.002-2 on Arch Linux. Near the end of a game, gnubg offered to "3" resign. I thought this was odd because it was possible, depending on the rolls, that the best result I could definitely achieve was a gammon. And so it proved. I have the 88,928-byte SGF file, if it would be