The GNU Backgammon Engine
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The GNU Backgammon Engine

The GNUbg engine does not yet exist (although it already has an entry in the Engine menu). Therefore, the remainder of this section should be taken with a grain of salt.

Use of the GNUbg engine requires a working installation of the actual GNUbg program. KBackgammon then starts GNUbg in the background and communicates with it. All this is transparent to the user (that is, it is hidden from the user) and all interaction with GNUbg is through the GUI elements of KBackgammon.

If there are other enhancements that can help using GNUbg from KBackgammon, please contact the author of KBackgammon (or better: send a patch). Some of the more advanced features will probably be position analysis and save/restore functions. However, playing is the most pressing issue.

The one thing that will never happen is a combination of the GNUbg and the FIBS engine! Using computer programs to enhance user ratings is cheating!

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