MAKEHYPER(6)
NAME
makehyper - generate a GNU Backgammon Hypergammon position database
SYNOPSIS
makehyper [-nvh] -f filename [-r filename] [-c chequers] [-t threshold]
DESCRIPTION
Hypergammon is a variation of backgammon with a much reduced number of
chequers (usually three). It's possible to fully analyze this simplified game and generate a database of position evaluations in order to
play perfectly. makehyper generates such a position evaluation database.
Since many of the positions are in contact, it's not possible to generate the database in one pass; instead, makehyper iterates until the
position evaluation converges. The convergence threshold can be
changed with the -t option.
OPTIONS
- -f filename, --outfile filename
- Write the hypergammon database to filename. This option must be given.
- -r filename, --restart filename
- Restart calculation of the database from the given file, which
should be a checkpoint from an earlier run. - -c chequers, --chequers chequers
- Set the number of chequers in the game. The default is 3, for
normal 3-chequer hypergammon. - -n, --no-checkpoint
- Do not write a checkpoint file after each iteration.
- -t threshold, --threshold threshold
- Set the convergence threshold. The default is 1e-5.
- -v, --version
- Show version information and exit.
- -h, --help
- Display usage and exit.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
Joseph Heled, ystein Johansen, Jrn Thyssen, and Gary Wong, with the
assistance of many others <bug-gnubg@gnu.org>.
- This manual page was written by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, for the
Debian 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 License as published by the Free Software Foundation (the
same license as GNU Backgammon).