/Leiserchess---MIT-6.172-Fall16-Final-Project

A fast implementation of Leiserchess AI for MIT 6.172`16 http://scrimmage.csail.mit.edu/

Primary LanguageC

Leiserchess

MIT 6.172/6.871 Final Project for Fall 2016.

Our Results

Exhibition Tournament:

Rank 1, won all 8 Swiss rounds with a total W/L/T score of 43-5-0.

Final Grading Tournament:

Rank 1, 90% overall winrate against the other teams' AIs.

Scrimmage Elo rating:

1544, rank 1 (205 higher than rank 2, 305 higher than reference_plus).

Against reference_plus:

85+% win rate in both Blitz and Regular mode.

Acknowledgements

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my teammates Yinzhan Xu, Yuzhou Gu and Chengkai Zhang, and to Microsoft for sponsering us $1400 worth of computing resources on Microsoft Azure.