The FIBS Bots Page

News

16th March 2000 - new bot on FIBS: RepBot
15th March 2000 - new bots on FIBS: mpgnu, mgnutest
28th May 1999 - new bot on FIBS: gnu
27th May 1999 - new bot on FIBS: LittleSister
12th Oct 1998 - new bot on FIBS: Costello
24th Aug 1998 - new bot on FIBS: Chip_Slinger
11th Jul 1998 - Snowie Professional is released
8th Jul 1998 - new bot on FIBS: bg_player
24th Jun 1998 - new bot on FIBS: computer
23rd Jun 1998 - someone's registering old bot names
22nd Apr 1998 - Snowie goes commerial
30th Jan 1998 - new bot on FIBS: Abbott
29th Jan 1998 - new bots on FIBS: yabs, yabe

Look at the Bots

View the bots sorted: By name | By rating | By status on FIBS

About This Page

Here's an overview of what this page is about.

About the Bots

FIBS-Based Backgammon Bots

Known Bots

All of these except motif and EXBGthree are, or were, neural nets. If you have any information you think would go well here, please mail me. For fun (in a sense), here's an incomplete family tree of the neural nets. Note: some bots have left FIBS, and their names have been registered by human players.

Abbott
bg_player
complex
Chip_Slinger
Costello
EXBGthree
fatboy
gnu
harmony
idiot
jellyfish
jf_level_five
lgammon
loner
maestro
mgnutest
mloner
MonteCarlo
motif
mpgnu
pubeval
robot
Sharkie
Snowie
SnowWhite
sykander
TD_one
tesauro
yabe
yabot
yabs

Suspected Bots

BGinGA (not on FIBS anymore, wasn't a bot anyway)
neuronal (not on FIBS anymore)

For Programmers

I can't give a huge amount of information here at the moment, but some links of interest might be:

Jay Scott's excellent Machine Learning in Games site
Jay Scott's backgammon pages within the above site
Tom Keith's article on motif's engine
The jellyfish/mloner match archives
The Big_Brother match archives
The telnet protocol, RFC 854

Pics

Eh? Pictures? Yes, and why not. There's the aforementioned neural net family tree, but you may be more interested to see what a backgammon bot programmer looks like. What sort of depraved luncatic is driven to write a bot? Find out here. Alternatively, you can see what my bot actually looks like.

And Finally...

If you have trouble viewing tables, you can see the bots page in its original form. I won't update that page beyond 6th January, 1998, however.

If you have any information that would fit well on this site, or if I've got anything wrong, please mail me.

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