Last weekend, despite raging storms and multiple campus wide power outages, we played chess!
For those not in the know, this is a tournament we at SIG-Game help sponsor with Dr. Daniel Tauritz for Missouri S&T’s CS5400 — Introduction to AI class. Students in this class learn how to build a chess AI. We then invite all other students on campus to both code their own AIs and compete as humans.
At this semester’s tournament there were 45 contestants of which 32 were AIs and 13 were humans, including Dr. Ricardo Morales. Of the AIs, 17 were written in C++, 12 in Python, 2 in C#, and 1 in Java. In addition there were 23 spectators and 6 organizers who did not compete.
And so we’d like to congratulate our top three winners, which were in fact only two people!
- Shawn Roach — AI (source code)
- Dustin Tanksley — Human player
- Dustin Tanksley — AI (source code)
Yes, Dustin got both second place as a human, and third place with his AI.
Both Shawn and Dustin were gracious enough to provide their chess AIs’ source code on GitHub for use in our AI framework, Cadre. For a full breakdown of where all the competitors placed, here’s the full results:
Thanks again to everyone who came out to compete, spectate, and have fun with AIs and chess! We’ll see you guys next year.
