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
NeurIPS 2022 Competition
Original results announcement:
The RBC Competition for NeurIPS 2022 has finished! Congratulations to the winners,
StrangeFish2, authored by Gino Perrotta,
and Fianchetto, by Anvay Shah and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan.
Discussions of RBC, this competition, and the bots that participated were presented during the
NeurIPS 2022 workshop week.