What's the best backgammon software?

[Pinbacker]

Hi.

I would like to buy a backgammon software.

- It needs to be able to analyze my games that I play on the internet
- I must be able to play some matches against it
- It needs to be as strong as possible, the stronger the better
- The backgammon board that it displays needs to have black and white checkers (brown is still acceptable I guess... but I want absolutely no red!)

So, which backgammon software is the best?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

[dorbel]

The industry standard is ExtremeGammon2, https://www.extremegammon.com/ , about $50.
Gnubg plays almost as well and is free, but XG has a much nicer interface and its storage of your data is unbeatable.

[Pinbacker]

I am hesitating between Snowie 4 and ExtremeGammon 2. What are the differences between these two softwares? Which one should I buy?

[NIHILIST]

Snowie is old tech, EG is the most recent. It's like comparing Windows 95 to Win 8.

Bob

[dorbel]

Snowie is ten years out of date and as far as I can tell, no longer supported! Even if it is the same price as XG, which I doubt, it would be stupid to buy it. XG is it.