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* NSFCWT: Rules for round 2                        *
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Round 2 is a "white warrior" challenge. You have to beat a known piece
of code (the white warrior) as well as you can. It's easy to beat the
warrior below 7 or 8 out of 10 times, but to succeed in this round,
you'll have to do better. The idea is to write a special-purpose
warrior that is designed specifically to beat the white warrior, but
not much else. In Michael Constant's white warrior challenge last year,
the winning strategy was to follow a stone's bombs back to the body,
taking advantage of the known step size. It's not quite that easy this
time :-)

To determine the winner, every submission will face the white warrior
1000 times - the other parameters are that of the redcode-94 hill. 
To optimize your challenger it might be helpful to
use a "constant" series of initial placements (pmars -r 1000 -F xxx) and 
concentrate on those rounds where your warrior loses or ties.


Enough said, here is the code to beat:

;redcode-94
;name White warrior
;author Nandor & Stefan
;assert CORESIZE==8000
;strategy White warrior for round 2 of Nandor and Stefan's fall 1995 tournament
;strategy Out of senseless cruelty, we'll show the load file format only :-)

       ORG      START
       DAT.F  $   600, $   600     
START  MOV.I  $    14, @     1     
       MOV.I  <   100, @   300     
       MOV.I  $    12, *    -1     
       ADD.F  $    -4, $    -2     
       DJN.B  $    -4, #    11     
       SPL.B  $     1, $     0     
       SPL.B  $     1, $     0     
       SPL.B  $     1, $     0     
       SPL.B  @     0, }  1800     
       MOV.I  }    -1, >    -1     
       SPL.B  @     0, }  3740     
       MOV.I  }    -1, >    -1     
       MOV.I  {    -2, <     1     
       JMP.B  @     0, > -1874     
       DAT.F  > -2467, >   200     
       MOV.I  $    -1, $     1     
       END

As usual, entries are due next Friday, the 20th of October, by 20:00 CST at
Stefan.Strack@vanderbilt.edu. Submit your entry even if you missed round 1.

Cheers, 
Nandor & Stefan