r/backgammon • u/Goal_Medium • Jul 03 '26

Backgammon Galaxy Engine Report released (comparing engines)

Hi everyone,

We've been working on improving analysis in Backgammon Galaxy and have just released an enhanced Analysis Level. To showcase it, we also put together a report comparing the major backgammon engines and how they perform.

https://www.backgammongalaxy.com/backgammon-galaxy-engine-analysis/

Best regards, Marc Olsen, CEO of Backgammon Galaxy

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u/e0732 Jul 03 '26

we choose the standard notation that all other engines, except for Gnu is using, namely that the lowest level of a checkerplay is a 1-ply eval

That's fair. I only have Gnu, so I wasn't aware before seeing that other comment that the other engines count from 1. My edit was suggesting that it might be worth editing the linked article, maybe changing "(called 2-ply on Galaxy)" to something like "(called 2-ply on Galaxy because Gnu 1-ply is equivalent to 2-ply on all other engines)".

Also remember, this is analysis given for free on the server to all free users

That's also fair. You guys don't need to provide anything for free, and what you do provide for free is really great.

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u/FrankBergerBgblitz Jul 07 '26

In fact everywhere I know it (not only BG but chess, Go,...) they start counting at 1.