That's How It Happened

BGBlitz seems to have overtaken my life. I've been testing out OS X backgammon software for the last few days. Absolute Backgammon and David's Backgammon don't quite hit the mark, but BGBlitz is the most astonishing piece of shareware I've ever downloaded. It does everything you could possibly imagine. It plays at world championship level, thanks to a sophisticated neural net. It hooks you up to online backgammon servers. It stores past games in databases, and can peform "roll out" probabilistic analysis of any postion. It acts as a tutor both for positional play and doubling. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and on my iBook it plays blisteringly fast. Utterly brilliant, and unexpectedly fantastic value at $23 for the basic shareware license.