Announcing the tabula backgammon engine

[Trevor Slocum]

tabula is a relatively simple backgammon engine, created to allow playing offline in the client for https://bgammon.org

The engine currently performs a weighted 1-ply analysis. Read about how the engine works in the design document at https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/tabula/src/branch/main/DESIGN.md

You can play against tabula in your browser right now at https://bgammon.org

Source code: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/tabula

[Martin Schnabel]

Hi Trevor,

I played two games against the bot and it was fun! Thank you!

However, there is a bug in the end game, when collecting pieces, and a
go stack trace in the console:

panic: no dice roll to use for 7/0
[…]
code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/bgammon.(*Game).LegalMoves.func3(0x7, 0x0)
/home/trevor/go/pkg/mod/code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/bga...@v0.0.0-20231203064241-5abce61fabb1/game.go:402
+0x2b

Have fun!

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