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BEAROFFDUMP(6)			  Games Manual			  BEAROFFDUMP(6)

NAME
     bearoffdump - dump a position from the GNU Backgammon bearoff database

SYNOPSIS
     bearoffdump file id

DESCRIPTION
     bearoffdump takes the path to a GNU Backgammon bearoff database and a posi-
     tion number and dumps the bearoff information for that position.  It can be
     called    on    either    the    one-sided   bearoff   database,	normally
     /usr/share/gnubg/gnubg_os0.bd; or the two-sided bearoff database,	normally
     /usr/share/gnubg/gnubg_ts0.bd.   The  output  from  the former includes the
     probabilities of bearing off all checkers in varying numbers of moves.  The
     latter only gives the probability of winning and doubling cube equity.

     The id is difficult to derive if you don't know GNU  Backgammon  internals.
     Each  possible  combinatorial position of checkers and points is assigned a
     position number, id divided by that number is the player position,  and  id
     modulo  that  number  is  the  opponent position.	The number of points and
     checkers is set when  building  the  bearoff  database  and  are  shown  by
     bearoffdump when run with any id.

SEE ALSO
     gnubg(6)

AUTHORS
     Joseph  Heled,  Oystein Johansen, Jorn Thyssen, and Gary Wong, with the as-
     sistance of many others <bug-gnubg@gnu.org>.

     This manual page was written by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, for the  De-
     bian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).  It may be redistributed
     and/or  modified under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public Li-
     cense as published by the Free Software Foundation (the same license as GNU
     Backgammon).

				   2006-01-14			  BEAROFFDUMP(6)

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