CS2710 Checkers Tournament
Fall 2014
The 2014 tournament is just finished
- TOURNAMENT WRAP-UP (posted on Oct-21-2013)
- Big congratulations to Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh the winner of the 2014 checkers tournament! Mahbaneh's checkers won all the games throughout the tournament!
- Congratulations to the runner-up Jeongmin Lee and whose checkers also showed very competitive performance throughout the tournament!
- Honorable mentions go to Vineet Raghu and Vivek Punjabi whose checkers played pretty good games as well.
- The tournament winner will have an opportunity to present one's heuristics to the class (will be contacted in person).
- Many thanks to everyone for participating and watching!!
- MATCH UPDATES
- CS2710 Checkers Championship Match (posted on Oct-21-2013)
- Championship match: Jeongmin Lee vs. Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh - Mahbaneh won! (record)
- Vineet won the third place in the 2014 CS2710 Checkers Tournament! Congratulations!! (posted on Oct-20-2013)
- Championship match will be tomorrow night. (posted on Oct-20-2013)
Final (game#22): Jeongmin Lee vs. Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh - Oct 21 10:00PM
- 3rd-place match (posted on Oct-20-2013)
- 3rd-place match: Vivek Punjabi vs. Vineet Raghu - Vineet won! (record)
- Semifinals (Game#20-21) (posted on Oct-20-2013)
- Semifinal#1 (game#20): Vivek Punjabi vs. Jeongmin Lee - Jeongmin won! (record)
- Semifinal#2 (game#21): Vineet Raghu vs. Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh - Mahbaneh won! (record)
- Semifinals, 3rd-place match, and Championship (Game#20-22) Schedules (posted on Oct-19-2013)
- Semifinal#1 (game#20): Vivek Punjabi vs. Jeongmin Lee - Oct 20 10:00PM
- Semifinal#2 (game#21): Vineet Raghu vs. Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh - Oct 20 10:00PM
- Third-place Match: (Game#20 Loser) vs. (Game#21 Loser) - Oct 20 11:00PM
- Championship (game#22): (Game#20 Winner) vs. (Game#21 Winner) - Oct 21 10:00PM
- Round 3 (Game#16-19) (posted on Oct-15-2013)
- Quarterfinal#1 (game#16): Bhavin Modi vs. Vivek Punjabi - Vivek won! (record)
- Quarterfinal#2 (game#17): Jeongmin Lee vs. Luca Lugini - Jeongmin won! (record)
- Quarterfinal#3 (game#18): Jesse Davis vs. Vineet Raghu - Vineet won! (record)
- Quarterfinal#4 (game#19): Yuhuan Jiang vs. Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh - Mahbaneh won! (record)
- Round 3 (Game#16-19) Schedules (posted on Oct-15-2013)
- Quarterfinal#1 (game#16): Bhavin Modi vs. Vivek Punjabi: Oct 15 10:00PM
- Quarterfinal#2 (game#17): Jeongmin Lee vs. Luca Lugini: Oct 15 10:00PM
- Quarterfinal#3 (game#18): Jesse Davis vs. Vineet Raghu: Oct 16 10:00PM
- Quarterfinal#4 (game#19): Yuhuan Jiang vs. Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh: Oct 16 10:00PM
- Round 2 Wrap-up (posted on Oct-15-2013)
- Group A: Bhavin Modi, Vivek Punjabi, Jeongmin Lee, and Luca Lugini advance to the quarterfinals.
- Group B: Jesse Davis vs. Vineet Raghu, Yuhuan Jiang, and Mahbaneh Eshaghzadehadvance advance to the quarterfinals.
- Good job to the winners and to everyone who participated!
- Round 2 (Game#9-15) (updated on Oct-14-2014; posted on Oct-10-2013)
- Group A (Game#9-12): Oct 13 10:00PM
- Game#9: Bhavin Modi vs. Anh Nguyen - Bhavin won! (record)
- Game#10: Mohammadamin Tajgardoon vs. Vivek Punjabi - Vivek won! (record)
- Game#11: Steven Forrest vs. Jeongmin Lee - Jeongmin won! (record)
- Game#12: Luca Lugini vs. Mengsi Lou - Luca won! (record)
- Group B (Game#13-15): Oct 14 10:00PM
- Game#13: Jesse Davis vs. Zihao Zhao - Jesse won! (record)
- Game#14: Judicael Djoko vs. Vineet Raghu - Vineet won! (record)
- Game#15: Yingjie Tang vs. Yuhuan Jiang - Yuhuan won! (record)
- Round 1 Wrap-up (posted on Oct-10-2013)
- Group A: Bhavin Modi, Vivek Punjabi, Steven Forrest, and Mengsi Lou advance to the next round.
- Group B: Jesse Davis, Vineet Raghu, Yingjie Tang, and Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh advance to the next round.
- Good job to the winners and to everyone who participated!
- Round 1 (Game#1-8) (updated on Oct-10-2014; posted on Oct-9-2014)
- Group A: Oct 9 10:00PM
- Game#1: Bhavin Modi vs. Jiafei Gao - Bhavin won! (record)
- Game#2: Xinyue Huang vs. Vivek Punjabi - Vivek won! (record)
- Game#3: Steven Forrest vs. Samanvoy Panati - Steven won! (record)
- Game#4: Zhong Zhuang vs. Mengsi Lou - Mengsi won! (record)
- Group B: Oct 10 10:00PM
- Game#5: Wenchen Wang vs. Jesse Davis - Jesse won! (record)
- Game#6: Vineet Raghu vs. Siqi Liu - Vineet won! (record)
- Game#7: Priyanka Walke vs. Yingjie Tang - Yingjie won! (record)
- Game#8: Mahbaneh Eshaghzadeh vs. Jose Joseph - Mahbaneh won! (record)
- TOURNAMENT AND MATCH SCHEDULES (posted on Oct-7-2014)
- Thank you all for the submissions! The tournament starts from Thursday, Oct 9. All games will be recorded in .txt and available on this page.
- Tournament match tree (click to enlarge)
- Match assignments:
will be announced soon.
- Player#1 - Modi, Bhavin Mahesh
- Player#2 - Gao, Jiafei
- Player#3 - Nguyen, Anh Phan
- Player#4 - Tajgardoon, Mohammadamin
- Player#5 - Huang, Xinyue
- Player#6 - Punjabi, Vivek Deepak
- Player#7 - Forrest, Steven Grant
- Player#8 - Panati, Samanvoy Reddy
- Player#9 - Lee, Jeongmin
- Player#10 - Lugini, Luca
- Player#11 - Zhuang, Zhong
- Player#12 - Lou, Mengsi
- Player#13 - Wang, Wenchen
- Player#14 - Davis, Jesse
- Player#15 - Zhao, Zihao
- Player#16 - Djoko Takougue, Judicael Briand
- Player#17 - Raghu, Vineet Kalathur
- Player#18 - Liu, Siqi
- Player#19 - Walke, Priyanka Sanjeev
- Player#20 - Tang, Yingjie
- Player#21 - Jiang, Yuhuan
- Player#22 - Eshaghzadeh Torbati, Mahbaneh
- Player#23 - Joseph, Jose Michael
- Match schedules:
- Round 1 (Game#1-8)
- Group A
- Game#1: Oct 8 10:00PM
- Game#2: Oct 8 10:00PM
- Game#3: Oct 8 10:00PM
- Game#4: Oct 8 10:00PM
- Group B
- Game#5: Oct 9 10:00PM
- Game#6: Oct 9 10:00PM
- Game#7: Oct 9 10:00PM
- Game#8: Oct 9 10:00PM
- Round 2: TBA
- The tournament will be announced on Oct 7. (posted on Sep-18-2014)
- #rounds and #walkovers will be decided after the number of participants are determined.
- Tournament seats will be randomly assigned.
Submission instruction:
- Please archive your work in a .zip or .tar file and name it with your last name followed by your first name.
- Upload your submission to AFS (//afs/cs.pitt.edu/public/incoming/CS2710).
- In case of any issues, email your work directly to TA.
Tournament rules:
- All code should be written in Python 3.
- The participants are only allowed to modify the designated block of code. No external library is allowed.
- It will be a knockout tournament in which you will play ONE game and if you win you'll advance to the next round.
- The tournament will be held on {nickel, neodymium, neptunium}.cs.pitt.edu (check out Tech Staff FAQs for more info).
- One minute is allowed for each move. If your program takes more than one minute for one move, we'll need to make the judgment that your program is lost.
- All games will be recorded in .txt and available on this page.
Supplementary information:
Deadlines for tournament participation: