From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!cnusc.fr!eerie.fr!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.wildstar.net!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!regent.mcs.vuw.ac.nz!amarsden Wed Jul 2 16:50:51 1997 Article: 7676 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!cnusc.fr!eerie.fr!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.wildstar.net!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!regent.mcs.vuw.ac.nz!amarsden From: Anton Marsden Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Core Warrior 59 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:35:25 +1200 Organization: School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, VUW Lines: 463 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: kaukau.mcs.vuw.ac.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cache-Post-Path: kaukau.mcs.vuw.ac.nz!unknown@regent.mcs.vuw.ac.nz .xX$$x. .x$$$$$$$x. d$$$$$$$$$$$ ,$$$$$$$P' `P' , . $$$$$$P' ' .d b $$$$$P b ,$$x ,$$x ,$$x ,$$b $$. 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If you have no clue what I'm talking about then check out these five-star internet locals for more information: FAQs are available by anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu as pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.Z FTP site is: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu /pub/corewar Web pages are at: (Please note new Stormking's address) http://www.koth.org/ ;Stormking http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth ;Pizza http://pauillac.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar/ ;Planar Newbies should check the stormking page for the FAQ, language specification, guides, and tutorials. Post questions to rec.games.corewar. All new players are infinitely welcome! If ftp.csua.berkeley.edu is unreachable, you can download pMARS at: Terry's web page--http://www.ncs.infi.net/~wtnewton/corewar/ Planar ftp site--ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/pmars Fechter ftp site--ftp://members.aol.com/ofechner/corewar A collection of Bezzi's hints in the first issues is available at: ftp://ftp.volftp.vol.it/pub/pc/msdos/games/solutions/bbhints.zip Beppe Bezzi web page - http://www.aspide.it/freeweb/Bezzi ______________________________________________________________________________ Greetings. There was a long delay between this issue and issue 58. However, there will probably be more frequent issues soon - we are taking on new staff. If you're interested in being an editor, let me know soon. I'm starting a tournament in a few days. Read the newsgroup for details. --Anton Marsden ______________________________________________________________________________ Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server ICWS '94 Draft Hill: Hill Specs: coresize: 8000 max. processes: 8000 duration: after 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared. max. entry length: 100 minimum distance: 100 rounds fought: 200 instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft The current ICWS '94 Draft hill: # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 1 46.2/ 36.1/ 17.7 Electric Head Anton Marsden 156.3 20 2 47.8/ 43.4/ 8.8 He Scans Again P.Kline 152.2 8 3 36.7/ 23.8/ 39.5 Newt Ian Oversby 149.6 11 4 32.4/ 17.5/ 50.1 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 147.3 265 5 37.4/ 28.0/ 34.6 Head or Tail Christian Schmidt 146.8 53 6 35.9/ 26.0/ 38.1 RetroQ P.Kline 145.8 65 7 43.8/ 42.2/ 14.0 C^2 Christian Schmidt 145.4 15 8 37.3/ 29.8/ 32.9 Nine Seven Six M R Bremer 144.9 129 9 36.5/ 29.6/ 34.0 Ultraviolet Ken Espiritu 143.3 2 10 39.2/ 35.3/ 25.5 PAN-TAU-RA Christian Schmidt 143.2 0 11 39.3/ 36.2/ 24.5 First Strike Nimon 142.5 26 12 40.4/ 38.9/ 20.7 NCC-1701-A Philip Kendall 142.0 68 13 33.2/ 24.5/ 42.2 unrequited love kafka 142.0 12 14 42.1/ 42.3/ 15.6 Blain Nimon 141.9 31 15 39.7/ 38.7/ 21.6 Guessed v0.1 Ian 140.7 5 16 33.8/ 28.1/ 38.1 Ultra-RQ^2 Ken Espiritu 139.5 3 17 39.1/ 39.2/ 21.7 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 139.0 306 18 28.2/ 17.7/ 54.1 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 138.8 304 19 39.0/ 39.9/ 21.1 Solomon v0.8 Ian Oversby 138.0 111 20 33.3/ 28.8/ 37.8 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 137.9 319 21 43.3/ 49.7/ 7.0 Obsidian Nimon 136.8 25 22 39.9/ 43.0/ 17.1 Fawkes v0.2 Ian Oversby 136.7 3 23 33.7/ 30.8/ 35.6 Terkonit 3 Christian Schmidt 136.5 8 24 39.9/ 44.1/ 16.0 myVamp5.4 Paulsson 135.8 15 25 37.8/ 42.5/ 19.7 Ace of Spades 3 Christian Schmidt 133.0 0 Monthly age: 13 this issue ( 14 last issue, 12 the issue before ) New warriors: 10 Turnover/age rate 77% Average age: 72 ( 80 last issue, 88 the issue before ) Average score: 142 ( 138 last issue, 141 the issue before ) The top 25 warriors are represented by 11 independent authors: Oversby and Schmidt with 5; Nimon with 3; Espiritu, Kline and Marsden with 2. All others with one warrior each. Electric Head is still on top but it's lead isn't as clear cut as it was last issue. Congratulations to Ken Espiritu for making the hill. ______________________________________________________________________________ 94 - What's New # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 2 46.7/ 45.9/ 7.4 He Scans Again P.Kline 147.6 1 5 41.3/ 41.6/ 17.0 Fawkes v0.2 Ian Oversby 141.1 1 7 39.0/ 39.1/ 21.9 Guessed v0.1 Ian 138.8 1 10 36.8/ 36.8/ 26.4 PAN-TAU-RA Christian Schmidt 136.7 0 12 33.0/ 30.8/ 36.2 Ultraviolet Ken Espiritu 135.2 1 14 31.1/ 28.9/ 40.0 Ultra-RQ^2 Ken Espiritu 133.4 1 19 31.1/ 28.8/ 40.0 Terkonit 3 Christian Schmidt 133.4 1 25 37.8/ 42.5/ 19.7 Ace of Spades 3 Christian Schmidt 133.0 0 ?? ??.?/ ??.?/ ??.? Newt Ian Oversby ???.? ?? ??.?/ ??.?/ ??.? unrequited love kafka ???.? Ten new warriors. Kline is back with a vengeance. ______________________________________________________________________________ 94 - What's No More # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 26 35.2/ 45.3/ 19.5 The Machine Anton Marsden 125.1 164 26 36.0/ 47.3/ 16.7 Freebooter 1.5 Ian Sutton 124.7 4 26 37.8/ 47.4/ 14.8 Undecided Nimon 128.2 20 26 34.5/ 44.4/ 21.1 Scanitator 5 Christian Schmidt 124.6 26 26 28.0/ 31.6/ 40.5 I Stone Ian 124.4 2 26 37.1/ 46.3/ 16.6 The Bloodhound Ian Sutton 128.0 35 26 34.4/ 45.0/ 20.6 Silver Talon 1.2 Edgar 123.8 6 26 26.3/ 27.0/ 46.7 Trident^2 John K W 125.5 195 Two significant losses - The Machine and Trident^2. ______________________________________________________________________________ 94 - What's Old # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 20 33.3/ 28.8/ 37.8 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 137.9 319 17 39.1/ 39.2/ 21.7 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 139.0 306 18 28.2/ 17.7/ 54.1 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 138.8 304 4 32.4/ 17.5/ 50.1 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 147.3 265 No new entries. ______________________________________________________________________________ OLD HALL OF FAME * means the warrior is still active. Pos Name Author Age Strategy 1 Thermite II Robert Macrae 2262 Qscan -> bomber 2 Impfinity v4g1 Planar 1993 Stone/ imp 3 Jack in the box Beppe Bezzi 1620 P-warrior 4 Tornado 3.0 Beppe Bezzi 1567 Bomber 5 Torch t18 P.Kline 1539 Bomber 6 Chameleon Myer R Bremer 1437 P-warrior 7 Frontwards v2 Steven Morrell 1420 One shot scanner 8 Evol Cap 6.6 John Wilkinson 1299 Imp / stone 9 quiz Schitzo 1262 Scanner/ bomber 10 T.N.T. Maurizio Vittuari 1204 Bomber 11 Grilled Octopus v0.5 David Boeren 1154 P-warrior 12 Hazy Shade II John Wilkinson 1102 P-warrior 13 Stepping Stone Kurt Franke 1049 Qscan -> Vampire 14 Rosebud Beppe Bezzi 993 Stone/ imp 15 Iron Gate 1.5 Wayne Sheppard 926 CMP scanner 16 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 925 Bomber 17 Agony II Stefan Strack 912 CMP scanner 18 Barrage Anton Marsden 876 Qscan -> replicator 19 Blue Funk Steven Morrell 869 Stone/ imp 20 Flurry Anton Marsden 835 Qscan -> pwarrior 21 Thermite 1.0 Robert Macrae 802 Qscan -> bomber 22 Blue Funk 3 Steven Morrell 766 Stone/ imp 23 Night Train Karl Lewin 755 Replicator 24 Mirage 1.5 Anton Marsden 736 Scanner/ bomber 25 Blizzard Anton Marsden 713 Qscan -> replicator ______________________________________________________________________________ NEW HALL OF FAME * means the warrior is still active. Pos Name Author Age Strategy 1 Probe Anton Marsden 403 Q^2 -> Bomber 2 Blur 2 Anton Marsden 396 Scanner 3 unrequited love kafka 346 Q^2 -> Paper 4 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 319 * Q^2 -> Stone/imp 5 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 306 * Q^2 -> Bomber 6 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 304 * Stone/imp 7 Falcon v0.3 Ian Oversby 275 P-warrior 8 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 265 * Q^2 -> Stone/imp 9 Rosebud Beppe 218 Stone/imp 10 Q^2 Miro Anders Ivner 214 Q^2 -> Scanner/bomber 11 Instant Wolf 3.4 Edgar 205 P-warrior 12 Goldfinch P.Kline 201 P-warrior 13 Simple v0.4b Ian Oversby 197 QScan -> Stone/imp 14 Trident^2 John K W 195 Q^2 -> Stone/imp 15 ompega Steven Morrell 189 Stone/imp 16 Frogz Franz 172 Q^2 -> Paper 17 The Machine Anton Marsden 164 Scanner 18 Memories Beppe 152 Scanner 19 Tiberius 3.1 Franz 130 Q^2 -> Paper 20 Nine Seven Six M R Bremer 129 * Q^2 -> Stone/imp 21 Solomon v0.8 Ian Oversby 111 * Stone and scanner 22 CC Paper 3.3 Franz 107 Q^2 -> Paper 23 mrb-test m r bremer 106 ? 24 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 105 Bomber 25 Jack in the box II Beppe Bezzi 100 P-warrior Trident^2 finishes in 14th place and The Machine finishes in 17th. ______________________________________________________________________________ Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server Beginner's Hill: Hill Specs: coresize: 8000 max. processes: 8000 duration: after 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared. max. entry length: 100 minimum distance: 100 maximum age: At age 100, warriors are retired. rounds fought: 200 instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft Last challenge: Fri Jun 27 12:07:19 PDT 1997 # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 1 49.2/ 36.7/ 14.2 Guessed v0.1 Ian 161.6 3 2 49.2/ 39.9/ 10.9 Pentagram 2.a J.A.Denny 158.5 65 3 45.0/ 35.9/ 19.1 Hexagram J.A.Denny 154.0 63 4 47.7/ 41.7/ 10.6 The Stainless Steel Rat Christian Schmidt 153.7 86 5 37.3/ 26.4/ 36.3 Sections Zul Nadzri 148.2 23 6 39.7/ 33.3/ 27.1 Versatility 1.7 Ross Morgan-Linial 146.1 91 7 36.4/ 26.8/ 36.8 Flimsy v0.6 Ian Oversby 146.0 64 8 34.6/ 23.8/ 41.5 Scanitator 3.0 Christian Schmidt 145.4 70 9 43.4/ 43.3/ 13.3 qDeath v .169 Ryan Coleman 143.5 10 10 43.2/ 43.5/ 13.3 Mostly Harmless v1.1 Justin Kao 142.8 94 11 41.8/ 45.2/ 12.9 Short Sword 4 JS Pulido 138.4 45 12 27.0/ 15.9/ 57.1 DemonSpawn J.A.Denny 138.2 73 13 29.5/ 23.8/ 46.7 Dust 7.0 Justin Kao 135.2 43 14 29.3/ 24.6/ 46.1 Six-Finger Discount From Ryan Coleman 134.1 17 15 38.2/ 42.5/ 19.2 qbomber v .469 Ryan Coleman 134.0 14 16 26.7/ 20.2/ 53.1 Quantum Christian Schmidt 133.1 67 17 38.9/ 45.3/ 15.7 Dwa Michaly b Waldemar Bartolik 132.5 51 18 39.6/ 49.4/ 11.1 Scankiller 0.1 Christian Schmidt 129.8 75 19 32.1/ 34.7/ 33.2 If I only had a brain? Ryan Coleman 129.4 15 20 25.8/ 24.4/ 49.8 It's a Harmless Addition Robert Hale 127.3 1 21 28.4/ 32.6/ 39.0 Zorm-B Anonymous 124.3 48 22 22.5/ 21.2/ 56.3 4-Finger Discount From th Ryan Coleman 123.8 18 23 25.2/ 26.8/ 48.1 Unknown George Eadon 123.6 24 24 26.3/ 29.4/ 44.3 Kohonenian Dream Robert J. Street 123.1 37 25 25.7/ 29.5/ 44.8 It's a Harmless Addiction Robert Hale 121.9 4 Top 25 Averages: 35.3/ 32.7/ 32.0 137.9 44 ______________________________________________________________________________ Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server Limited Process Hill: Hill Specs: coresize: 8000 max. processes: 8 duration: after 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared. max. entry length: 200 minimum distance: 200 rounds fought: 200 instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft Last challenge: Sat Jun 14 09:03:03 PDT 1997 # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 1 58.4/ 30.9/ 10.8 Limb Rending Incisors Ian Sutton 185.9 19 2 54.0/ 35.4/ 10.6 Solomon LP v0.1 Ian Oversby 172.6 16 3 53.4/ 35.5/ 11.1 NX-74205 Philip Kendall 171.3 2 4 51.0/ 34.2/ 14.9 Simplicity Anton Marsden 167.8 9 5 47.7/ 28.5/ 23.8 Paper 'LP' II Philip Kendall 166.8 46 6 48.6/ 34.9/ 16.5 Flips Zul Nadzri 162.4 20 7 45.0/ 28.3/ 26.7 Indecisive v0.1 Ian Oversby 161.6 25 8 43.6/ 31.3/ 25.1 Twin Flame Ian Oversby 155.9 50 9 44.2/ 34.1/ 21.8 Bolder v0.01 Ian Oversby 154.3 24 10 46.9/ 40.2/ 12.9 Romulan Warbird Philip Kendall 153.6 29 11 42.2/ 30.9/ 26.9 Benchmark 1.0 Zul Nadzri 153.5 44 12 42.3/ 37.3/ 20.4 Bag of Tricks Anton Marsden 147.4 34 13 41.1/ 37.2/ 21.8 red marble bjoern guenzel 144.9 39 14 42.0/ 41.0/ 17.1 red eye bjoern guenzel 142.9 40 15 39.9/ 38.6/ 21.5 Romantica Zul Nadzri 141.1 17 16 33.2/ 30.4/ 36.4 Paper 'LP' Philip Kendall 136.1 67 17 35.9/ 36.6/ 27.5 Iocane 0.0 John K W 135.2 33 18 39.9/ 48.8/ 11.4 qDeath v .169 Ryan Coleman 131.0 1 19 38.1/ 46.9/ 15.0 Hopefully Indestructible Ian Sutton 129.2 38 20 36.3/ 44.3/ 19.4 Dr. Gate v4 Franz 128.3 54 21 34.8/ 43.9/ 21.2 oldtimer bjoern guenzel 125.7 52 22 33.6/ 43.0/ 23.4 rimmer 2.0 jkw 124.2 58 23 33.5/ 44.7/ 21.7 Dr. Gate Franz 122.3 56 24 37.8/ 53.9/ 8.3 If I only had a brain? Ryan Coleman 121.7 5 25 30.5/ 47.0/ 22.5 Inferno 1.8 Philip Kendall 114.0 66 Top 25 Averages: 42.2/ 38.3/ 19.5 146.0 33 ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra Extra Electric Head by Anton Marsden Electric Head consists of 4 components: - The Core Clear - Mini HSA - A small paper - A modified version of Carbonite These components combined with a nice PSpace routine are the key to the success of this warrior. It has weaknesses but so does every warrior. However, one of it's strengths is the ability to kill heavy imp/stones. ;redcode-94 ;name Electric Head ;author Anton Marsden ;strategy P-Warrior which uses the P^2 switcher (see CW 58) ;assert CORESIZE==8000 ;kill Electric Head ;-------------- ;THE CORE CLEAR ;-------------- gate1 EQU (bomb1-19) gate2 EQU (bomb1-18) bomb2 EQU (bomb1+22) cca EQU (-4000) ; not the actual value dat 19 , 500 ; 1: 1/1 dat -4040 , 4045 ; 2: 2/2 bomb1 spl #bomb2-gate1 , 45 ;20: 5/4 mov *gate1 , >gate1 ; 1: 1/1 mov *bomb2+2, >gate2 ; 2: 2/2 djn.f -1 , {gate2 ; 3: 3/3 dat 1 , 45 ; 2: 2/2 spl #-40 , 45 ; 3: 3/3 ccb mov bomb1-1,@ccd mov {-1,ptr,>ptr jmn.f kill,>ptr a: add #step+1,@mptr scan: jmz.f a,-1,>1 in dat 0,loss_table-state p spl 1,win_table-state spl 1,tie_table-state ;---------- ;MINI PAPER ;---------- spl @0,1234 ; not the actual value mov }-1,>-1 mov {-2,<1 jmp @0,>5678 ; not the actual value PSTATE EQU 250 ; pspace location containing current state STATES EQU 10 ; maximum number of states (for brainwash protection) ;NOTE: state values go from 0 to STATES-1 w0 EQU ccb ; THE CORE CLEAR w1 EQU boot ; MINI HSA w2 EQU p ; MINI PAPER w3 EQU cboot ; CARBONITE think ldp.a #0,in ; get input value load ldp.a #PSTATE,state ; load old state mod.a #STATES,state ; brainwash protection add.ba *in,state ; select correct state table store stp.a *state,load ; store new state win_table state jmp @0,w0 ; jump to warrior code init_state spl #0,w0 spl #0,w0 spl #3,w1 spl #3,w1 spl #4,w1 spl #6,w2 spl #7,w3 spl #7,w3 spl #8,w3 tie_table spl #1,w0 spl #2,w0 spl #3,w1 spl #3,w1 spl #4,w1 spl #5,w1 spl #0,w0 spl #7,w3 spl #8,w3 spl #9,w3 loss_table spl #1,w0 spl #2,w0 spl #3,w1 spl #4,w1 spl #5,w1 spl #6,w2 spl #7,w3 spl #8,w3 spl #9,w3 spl #3,w1 ;----------- ;CARBONITE++ ;----------- caway EQU (-100) ; not the actual value cboot mov tar+1, or Myer Bremer or Anton Marsden