Classic board game of Nard (Backgammon) for two players.
Project description
Nard Game (Backgammon)
Classic board game of Nard (Backgammon) for two players.
Common rules
- Players: the game is played by two players
- Tables board of 24 points or spaces; 2 dice; 30 pieces (15 per player)
- Both players throw a die to decide who plays first; the one with the higher die leads off
- Bearing off:
- Begins once all 15 pieces are in the home quadrant
- One piece is removed from the point corresponding to the roll of each die
- If there are no piece on the point corresponding to a die roll, the player must make a legal move with a piece further away
- If that is not possible, a piece is borne off from the furthest point that is occupied.
Usage
Playing
from nard_backgammon import (
Nard,
NardState,
Player,
get_random_move,
board_to_str)
# If the first_player is None, then the starting
# player is found on the first roll `first_roll()`
game = Nard.new(first_roll_player=Player.WHITE)
while True:
match game.state:
# If first_roll_player is None then
# NardState is will be FIRST_ROLL at the init
case NardState.FIRST_ROLL:
game.first_roll()
case NardState.PLAYING:
# get valid moves for active player
moves = game.get_valid_moves()
if not moves:
game.skip()
continue
move = get_random_move(moves)
game.play_move(move)
print(board_to_str(game))
case NardState.ENDED:
print(f'Winner: {game.outcome.winner}')
break # End game, exit the loop
Output
...
||12-11-10-9--8--7-||6--5--4--3--2--1-||
||o o x x x || ||
||2 2 7 2 || ||
|| || || White off: 0
|| || || Black off: 4
|| || || Dices: (4, 3)
|| 2 || 4 3 ||
|| o o || o o o o ||
||13-14-15-16-17-18||19-20-21-22-23-24||
...
Winner: Player.WHITE
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