Backgammon

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Registry name: backgammon. Parity status in games_covered.md: 🥈.

Description

Board game recreation of Backgammon for the Atari 2600.

Actions

Default controls are instant-select (move the cursor with LEFT/RIGHT, confirm with FIRE). This differs from ALE Backgammon, which uses hold-to-scroll and release-to-drop. Use mods=["ale_controls"] for the original ALE scheme.

Observations

Reward

Modifications

Registered via BackgammonEnvMod:

• brown_theme

• blue_theme

• classic_theme

• short_game

• simplify

• highlight_legal_moves

• setup_mode

• no_hits

• reward_shaping

• ale_controls

Known issues