Reconnaissance Blind Chess
RBC Tournament History
NeurIPS 2019 Tournament
Original results announcement:
Congratulations to all the participants of our
NeurIPS 2019 tournament! Gino Perrotta and
Robert Perrotta won first prize with StrangeFish,
which had an overall record of 464-40 and a winning record against
every other bot. Timothy (T.J.) Highley, Brendan Funk, and Laureen Okin
won second with LaSalle Bot,
which had a record of 444-60. In addition to replays of
all tournament games, more information is available in
our PMLR paper and
the NeurIPS videos.
2020 Leaderboard Challenge
Original results announcement:
Congratulations to Gregory Clark, author of penumbra,
and Kyle Blowitski and Timothy (T.J.) Highley, authors of La-Q Bot,
who won $1000 and $500 respectively in our most recent scheduled online competition! Hear more in
an interview with JHU/APL and Clark.
Thank you to all who participated.
NeurIPS 2021 Tournament
Original results announcement:
Congratulations to Mohammad Taufeeque, Nitish Tongia, and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan,
the team behind Fianchetto, the winner of the
NeurIPS 2021 tournament,
and to Gino Perrotta, who won second place with StrangeFish2!
A virtual workshop was held as part of
the NeurIPS 2021 Competition Track; the
recording can be watched here