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Design of the tabula backgammon engine (code.rocket9labs.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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tabula is a backgammon engine I recently created.

The engine builds on principles described by the author of the Motif engine here: https://bkgm.com/motif/engine.html

You can play against the engine right now at https://bgammon.org

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How exactly do you simulate die rolls? Do you actually use a random number a bunch of times and average? Because its 2d6, it has a known distribution. You could iterate over all combinations and use the probably distribution to weight each result. How did you accomplish this?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Is there a reason standard pseudorandom wouldn't work?