Bgo: Backgammon engine written in Go

Quick start

Clone this repo into $GOPATH/src/github.com/seriesoftubes:

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/seriesoftubes && cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/seriesoftubes && git clone https://github.com/seriesoftubes/bgo.git && cd bgo

Build main.go

go build main.go

Play against untrained AI opponent by entering moves like X;a1;m5 (the "X" is your player name, "a1" means move X's checker on the "a" slot by 1, "m5" means move X's checker on the "m" slot by 5)

./main -skip_training

Training the AI opponent

This can be done by adjusting the training parameters via command line flags and interactively adjusting settings at runtime.

Run with reasonable flags:

./main

Further train a pre-trained opponent:

./main -epsilon=0.3 -config_infile='~/Desktop/bgo/bgo_nnet.json' -config_outfile='~/Desktop/ai/agent2.json'