Re: [Bug-gnubg] Please help me with a quite nagging problem with GNUB

[Michael Petch]

On 2013-03-09 20:24, John Boland wrote:
> Each time I start a new set of 7 games, I try to enter, and make my
> settings stick (as below in top screen shot). Yet almost each time, my
> settings ("casual play", "intermediate"), whatever I enter, after I
> enter my choice, GNUB stays at my choice ("casual play", but JB almost
> always reverts to ("expert").  Plus, it seems the only way I can change
> JB, is to click "GNU Backgammon" temporarily to make make "Human" become
> "GNU Backgammon, which un-greys "casual play" as seen below.  I then
> change "Expert" to "casual play", re-click JB to "Human" to lock in
> "casual play".  Yet it far to often doesn't stick, and I have to do it
> over and over until GNUB allows "casual play"
> 

At least for the first part.

Did you do as I suggested late in February? I posted a response to a bug
report you submitted:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38434

The dice in GNUBG are not adjusted to favor the human or computer. You
could try manually entry (roll dice on your desk/table and enter them in
the computer). Selecting the dice from random.org will utilize numbers
generated outside of GNUBG.

The only way to make it easier to beat GNUBG is to set it on lower skill
levels. If you select easier levels than Expert, it will also go out of
its way to make some random plays that can be rather bad.
-- 
Michael Petch
CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd.
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