makehyper - generate a GNU Backgammon Hypergammon position database

       Joseph  Heled,  Øystein  Johansen,  Jørn  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).

                                                   2024-02-27                                       MAKEHYPER(6)

       Hypergammon  is  a  variation of backgammon with a much reduced number of chequers (usually three).  It's
       possible to fully analyse 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.

       makehyper - generate a GNU Backgammon Hypergammon position database

-ffilename, --outfilefilename
              Write  the  hypergammon database to filename.  Default is "hyper<number of chequers>.bd", the name
              expected by GNU Backgammon when using the database.

       -rfilename, --restartfilename
              Restart calculation of the database from the given file, which should  be  a  checkpoint  from  an
              earlier run.

       -cchequers, --chequerschequers
              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.

       -tthreshold, --thresholdthreshold
              Set the convergence threshold.  The default is 1e-5.

       -h, --help
              Display usage and exit.

gnubg(6)

makehyper [-nh] [-ffilename] [-rfilename] [-cchequers] [-tthreshold]