Round 6 is finally over. There was some controversy over self fights and handshakes. At the end this didn't make much of a difference. The round was run twice. First without self fights and then with self fights. The results are almost the same except in one case. Karl Lewin sent in two versions of his warrior (The Thinker). One version with handshakes and another without handshakes. I included both of these versions in both runs. Special thanks for Karl Lewin for Test warrior. It was a valuable tool to find out about buggy submissions. Test warrior was run also in the tournament, and it gained the first place as it was supposed to. Notice that in the self fight run Test warrior didn't win 100 % . Since the only difference in the results of the two runs is the order of Thinker and Winner, we decided to call it a draw between these two submissions. Here is the result of the no self fights run: Elapsed time: 833 seconds (00:13:53) Rank Name Author %W %L %T Score ___________________________________________________________________________ 1 Test for Timeouts Karl Lewin 100 0 0 75000 2 Blizzard Anders Ivner 71 18 10 56123 3 Psst Robert Macrae 67 21 12 53019 4 Round 6 Kline P.Kline 64 20 16 51936 5 nt entry #6 M R Bremer 64 21 16 51529 6 Winner Steven Morrell 63 21 16 51183 7 The Thinker (w/Handshak Karl Lewin 62 23 15 50479 8 The Thinker (w/o handsh Karl Lewin 62 23 15 50479 9 Machiavelli Maurizio Vittuari 62 23 15 50356 10 Maverick Randy Graham 63 25 12 50142 11 Miss Playful Derek Ross 61 22 16 50109 12 ?{whateverCT#$~S|[]~+'i Paulsson 59 27 14 47404 13 PlinySwitch - 2990 G. Eadon 58 27 15 47140 14 Bim bum bam Beppe Bezzi 57 30 13 46149 15 WhileAway JKW 54 31 16 44161 16 Paper-Scissors-Stone #4 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 35 58 7 27887 17 Paper-Scissors-Stone #6 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 17 68 15 16168 18 Paper-Scissors-Stone #7 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 19 74 7 16097 19 Paper-Scissors-Stone #3 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 17 74 9 15006 20 Paranoid Calvin Loh 16 73 10 14829 21 Paper-Scissors-Stone #1 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 17 76 7 14507 22 Paper-Scissors-Stone #8 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 15 74 11 14084 23 Paper-Scissors-Stone #5 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 13 70 18 13834 24 Paper-Scissors-Stone #9 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 15 76 9 13589 25 Paper-Scissors-Stone #2 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 15 76 9 13386 26 Paper-Scissors-Stone #1 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 1 94 4 2096 These is the result of the self fight run: Elapsed time: 942 seconds (00:15:42) Rank Name Author %W %L %T Score ___________________________________________________________________________ 1 Test for Timeouts Karl Lewin 93 0 7 77000 2 Blizzard Anders Ivner 66 17 17 58123 3 Psst Robert Macrae 65 23 11 56019 4 Round 6 Kline P.Kline 59 19 22 53936 5 nt entry #6 M R Bremer 59 19 22 53529 6 The Thinker (w/Handshak Karl Lewin 61 25 14 53477 7 Winner Steven Morrell 58 20 22 53183 8 The Thinker (w/o handsh Karl Lewin 58 21 21 52479 9 Machiavelli Maurizio Vittuari 57 21 22 52356 10 Maverick Randy Graham 58 23 19 52142 11 Miss Playful Derek Ross 57 21 22 52109 12 ?{whateverCT#$~S|[]~+'i Paulsson 54 25 20 49404 13 PlinySwitch - 2990 G. Eadon 54 25 21 49140 14 Bim bum bam Beppe Bezzi 53 27 20 48149 15 WhileAway JKW 50 28 22 46161 16 Paper-Scissors-Stone #4 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 32 54 14 29887 17 Paper-Scissors-Stone #6 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 15 63 21 18168 18 Paper-Scissors-Stone #7 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 18 68 14 18097 19 Paper-Scissors-Stone #3 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 16 68 16 17006 20 Paranoid Calvin Loh 15 68 17 16829 21 Paper-Scissors-Stone #1 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 16 70 14 16507 22 Paper-Scissors-Stone #8 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 14 68 18 16084 23 Paper-Scissors-Stone #5 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 12 65 24 15834 24 Paper-Scissors-Stone #9 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 14 70 16 15589 25 Paper-Scissors-Stone #2 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 14 71 16 15386 26 Paper-Scissors-Stone #1 Nandor Sieben & Stefan 1 87 12 4096 This is the rank after round 6: Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 total Steven Morrell 5 10 9 13 14 10 61 P.Kline 7.5 9 7 11 11 12 57.5 Paulsson 7.5 11 11 9 2 5 45.5 Anders Ivner 5.5 8 4 0 10 14 41.5 Beppe Bezzi 7 7 13 2 8 3 40 M R Bremer 7 4 3.6 5 7 11 37.6 Maurizio Vittuari 6.5 5 6 3 9 8 37.5 John K. Wilkinson 4 6 12 0 13 2 37 Robert Macrae 0 0 0 12 12 13 37 Karl Lewin 0 0 10 4 6 10 30 Randy Graham 0 0 8 10 4 7 29 Derek Ross 3.5 3 3.3 7 3 6 25.8 G. Eadon 1.5 2 5 6 1 4 19.5 Kurt Franke 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 Michael Constant 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 Anders Scholl 0 1 2 1 0 0 4 John Lewis 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 Calvin Loh 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 Detailed results and the submissions will be sent in a separate file. It wasn't clear for a while if handshake is possible. So looking at the submissions will be very interesting. We let Corewarrior discuss this topic in depth. It is clear from game theory that assuming an optimal opponent the best strategy is to play randomly. If the opponent does not play using optimal strategy then we can do much better. Of course trying to outguess the opponent makes our strategy different from the optimal strategy. There was some concern about mts. The Borland C compiled version of mts has difficulty handling big scores. This didn't caused problem in this round since the djgpp compiled version was used which can handle huge scores. Thanks for playing, Nandor & Stefan.