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Can we have stylized BG AI's at last?

Posted By: MK
Date: Saturday, 30 May 2026, at 10:12 a.m.

Lately, there has been numerous comments about separating the AI's from the UI's in BG bots and that there are a number of new AI's out there.

All that is good progress in the right direction but now that at least some gamblegammon faithfuls acknowledge "playing style", meaning alternative strategies (which applies to bots as well as humans even if at a subtler degree), I would like to see stylized, personalized AI's similar to user maintained dictionaries in text editors.

If you were ever able to open your minds enough to visit my backgammon site, (https://www.montanaonline.net/backgammon/), you would have seen that I had ran numerous subjective "Murat vs bots" sessions and ran dozens of "bot vs mutant bot" experiments but that I was never able cobine the two by creating a "mutant Murat AI" in order to offer reproducible, objective "mutant Murat bot vs other bots" experiments/sessions.

"Personalized AI's" would allow me, other people and other "mutant AI's" to at last accomplish that.

Just like text editors allow users to add and/or replace spelling dictionary entries to create "user specific dictionaries", BG bots should allow players to create player specific AI's by adding and/or replacing a bot's best plays for given positions with what users deem best.

Programmatically this should be a piece of cake to implement. Here you go Frank, do something worthwhile with your BgBzzzt instead of trying to figure out how to chase your tail counter-clockwise instead of clockwise. I will post this in bug-gnubg also in case they may be interested in implementing it.

MK