I apologize profusely as this is technically a non-backgammon post. But no doubt some of you will find it interesting, and anyway I am soliciting help :)
I just uploaded a new project to github called royalur (
https://github.com/jheled/royalur). The documentation is at
https://jheled.github.io/royalur/.
It contains code for playing and analysing a 5000 years old board game, a very ancient ancestor of BG.
What is unique about the game is that it is small enough to solve completely, which I have. This enables perfect play and also allows definite answers to some questions.
What I am soliciting is help in putting up a GUI. I put a primitive curses version in the repository, but obviously we can do better :) The best would be an android version, obviously, but I will love a GTK version as well. Even if you are not interested, perhaps you know about someone who might like this kind of challenge? A student? A young guy looking for a challenge?
Comments and Criticism welcome regardless.