Then you can fumble yourself through the backgammon basics against an opponent that is a temple of patience and good manners. Later you can steadily improve your play by sparring with it, constantly watching its every move, and always tuning it to be a little stronger than yourself. Even if beaten to pulp time and again, you will emerge a better player. The model being nothing less than the human brain and its neural networks. Meaning, the program learns by experience.
Jellyfish knows the game by actually having played a large number of matches.
However, the human brain and its networks is made up of more than 100 billion neurons. But don't let the name fool you. You'll be the fool soon enough anyway. The easiest level. Jellyfish does some analysis, but adds a lot of randomness to its moves.