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David's BackGammon
Features:
• Play against the Computer
• Play against another person
• 5 skill levels
• Fast computer play
• Piece movement is animated - pieces DON'T just appear in the new location
• Utilizes mouse or keyboard for easy play
• Can pick up multiple pieces at once
• Easily take back as many moves and doubles of the cube as you wish
• Speech - Original Macintalk and the new Speech Manager
• Digitized sound effects
• Cube can be used in all modes of play
• Recommends "best" moves
• Gives Doubling Cube Advice
• Save your game to finish later
• Switch board direction and colors
• Setup any board situation.
• On-line Help
• Context sensitive help
• Helpful messages during play using speech & text
• Tournament Play
• Print the entire game
• Selectable board size
• Multiple board color schemes
• Both color and monochrome
• Hot key to hide the game quickly (in case your boss shows up)
• Add comments when saving a game for later recall
• Concede games
• Option to input dice rolls
• Change the speed of piece movement
• Can create your own board colors
• Select number of automatic doubles
• Beaver option supported
• Jacoby rule optional
• Option to allow one roll-over during game
• Option to Re-roll first roll
• Option to not allow backgammons
• Option to make sure you win the first roll with a good roll
• Option to force the computer to accept your doubling of the cube
• Option to have winner roll first
• Easily (1 click) display pipcounts and remaining rolls for both players
• Note pad for taking notes during game play
• Automatic Rolls of the dice for faster play
• Choice of shorter dice sound for faster play
• Keeps track of statistics for up to 4 pairs of players
• Instant replay of computers's last move
• Option to show possible moves when a piece is picked up
• Display the risk of your blots being hit
• Select to pick up either 1 piece at a time or multiple pieces
• Option to speak the dice rolls.
• Can replay the game using the same rolls - either using yours or the computer's rolls
• Can continue a game after the game has ended due to the cube being declined
• Keeps game and sessions statistics as well as running/cumulative statistics.
• Plus more...