Press Quotes

• Chris Bray: "A breakthrough for the game of backgammon"  

• Both its play of the pieces and its cube handling are at an expert level, making it a challenge for even the best players ... For the casual player, JellyFish provides a strong opponent and a sure way to improve at a reasonable cost ... Those without it will be at a serious disadvantage. 

  The Independent, April 14th 1995

• Harald Johanni: "The buy is a must"  

• JellyFish is the best backgammon program available for cash ... The author describes his program, saying that even the best players in the world would be hard pressed to win 55% of their games against it. I think he's right ... Buy yourself a strong opponent for the cold winter days! 

  Backgammon Magazine, IV/94 and I/95

• Harald Johanni on JellyFish 3.5 

• .... changes are successful. The online help does its duty, the possibility to write the own dice generator is a goody for insider and the improved possibilities for the checker movement is comfortable.
  
  The JellyFish rollouts are very fast as usual and have an excellent quality.
  Therefore the non flourish analyzing and playing program JellyFish 3.5 keeps on finding its buyers for good reasons with a nice price effect ratio.

Backgammon Magazine, 1999

• Bill Robertie: "Buy it and use it"  

  There's no doubt in my mind that it's the strongest commercially-available program right now ... It's a fantastic tool - a personal trainer for beginners and intermediates, an analytical assistant for advanced players. Buy it and use it. You'll be glad you did. 

  Inside Backgammon, 1/95

• Mark Damish: "A major take"  

• In my observation, JellyFish plays better than EVERY nonprofessional advanced player that I've faced ... The future for JellyFish looks bright! ... This program is in my humble opinion, a major take. To drop, that is to overlook studying with this program, will just be giving equity to those who have! 

  Inside Backgammon, 1/95

• Ron Held: "Great new computer program"  

• A formidable opponent ... It has the enormous advantage of speed. The evaluations pop op immediately, whereas Expert Backgammon took more than two hours 

  European Backgammon News, No 15

• Kit Woolsey: "Programmed to Win"  

• JellyFish is a breakthrough for backgammon. Both the checkerplay and cube action of the program are at an expert level, making JellyFish a truly enjoyable and challenging competitor. In addition, the program looks over your plays and points out when you have made a serious error - extremely valuable for learning purposes ... For the serious student of the game, this program is an absolute must ... The player who does not have access to JellyFish will be left far behind. 

  Chicago Point, December 1994

• John Bazigos: "State of the Art"  

• The recent commercial release of Fredrik Dahl's neural net based backgammon program JellyFish 1.0 constitutes a historic milestone ... I and another more experienced player have independently concluded that JellyFish already plays world-class backgammon ... We also independently concluded that rollouts by JellyFish Analyzer are the most trustworthy of any general-purpose backgammon software. 

  Flint Area Backgammon News, December 1994