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This article is from the Backgammon FAQ, by Mark Damish damish@ll.mit.edu with numerous contributions by others.

33 Which programs are good? How good is good? (Backgammon)

     Program Name        Source      Type        Score
     -----------------   ------      ------      ------
     TD-GAMMON 2.1       N/A         N/A          -0.05
     TD-GAMMON           IBM         OS/2
     JellyFish 1.0       Dahl        IBM-PC/Win   -0.15
     Expert BG 2.1       Weaver      IBM-PC       -0.20
     Expert BG 1.61      Weaver      IBM-PC       -0.35
     Championship BG     Spinnaker   IBM-PC       -0.66
     Expert BG           Komodo      Macintosh    -0.82
     Sensory BG 2        Scitek      Portable     -0.94
     Backgammon          Odesta      IBM-PC       -1.20
     BG by George        GS Labs     IBM-PC/Win   -1.52
     Video Gammon        Baudville   IBM-PC       -1.61
     PC-Gammon           Repsted     IBM-PC       -3.67
     Gammon              Gakken      Portable    -12.40
     Windows BG          Baudville   IBM-PC/Win  -13.83
     Gammon Pal          Fidelity    Portable    -15.63
     Micro BG            Fidelity    Portable    -15.53
     Games People Play   Toolworks   IBM-PC      -26.60

[ From the 1994 The GAMMON PRESS catalog.
and program reviews in Inside Backgammon.]

Score is the number of points won per game, on average, against a top
flight human player. Very large numbers are caused by bad doubling
algorithms which cause a program to double when behind (typically when
primed but ahead in the race), causing the computer to lose some very
large cubes.

 

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