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FIBS bots

On the FIBS server there are not only human players, but also a number of computer players, often referred to as bots. With current technology, most bots play at a very high level, close to or maybe even surpassing the best players in the world.

Playing bots

To play a game or match with these bots, you can just invite them as you would with human players. If you want to know more about a certain bot, try tell [botname] help (or kibitz help if you're already playing with the bot). If the bot doesn't seem to respond, you can usually try kibitz move.

Bots come and go, here is a list of some of FIBS' bots, their ratings tend to be in the 1900-2000 range:

• bonehead, chats (see below)
• donzbot (donzaemon)
• FlorianGeyer
• gBOTexpert (and other gBOT players)
• Jean_le_Joueur
• MonteCarlo, 1-pointers only
• ParlorBot (Rod Roark), chats (see below)

There's a list of older bots at Netadelica.

Other bots

There's also some bots active on FIBS that do other things than play:

• TourneyBot: Organizes various tournaments, both its own and with FibsLeaGammon. Author: MadMatt. Tell TourneyBot help.
• RepBot: Helps Fibsters avoid droppers by recording and showing information about players. Its main features are reporting the number of saved games any player has and that person's 'reputation' as voted by others. Authors: burper and avik. Tell RepBot help. www.fibsboard.com/repbot
• ChouetteBot: Bot in development to provide chouette games, there's also BoxBot. Author: burper. Tell ChouetteBot help.
• monitor: The pet bot of FIBS' sysop Patti; monitors the status of FIBS and implements the banning function.
• ls_one: Little Sister watches matches between the best players and records and archives them on the web for later use. Named after an older FIBS bot known as Big Brother. Author: François Hochede gammon@free.fr, gammon.online.fr

How do you make a bot chat? A few links: Python AIML Interpreter and ALICE (java).

If you'd like to know more about FIBS' bots, James Eibisch has made an excellent (although somewhat outdated) site with lots of information: www.netadelica.com