Issue 53 16 December, 1996
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Core Warrior is a weekly newsletter promoting the game of corewar. Emphasis
is placed on the most active hills--currently the '94 draft hill and the
beginner hill. Coverage will follow where ever the action is. 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.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
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Greetings.
Sorry for the delay and for incomplete data but I had an HD crash and I
lost, together with lots of other thing, part of the mail from Pizza.
I wish you all a merry Christmas and an happy new year, we'll see agin next
january.
--Beppe Bezzi
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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
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 51.3/ 42.6/ 6.1 He Scans Alone P.Kline 160.0 4
2 37.9/ 22.0/ 40.1 unrequited love kafka 153.8 287
3 39.2/ 25.6/ 35.2 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 152.8 243
4 43.2/ 35.0/ 21.8 Solomon v0.8 Ian Oversby 151.4 35
5 33.2/ 15.9/ 50.9 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 150.5 189
6 38.2/ 28.2/ 33.6 Nine Seven Six M R Bremer 148.1 53
7 42.7/ 37.4/ 19.9 The Machine Anton Marsden 148.0 95
8 33.7/ 21.1/ 45.2 Trident^2 John K W 146.2 119
9 42.2/ 39.9/ 17.9 Oblivion Ian Sutton 144.6 54
10 44.6/ 45.9/ 9.5 Memories Beppe 143.2 103
11 40.4/ 38.3/ 21.3 Silver Talon 1.2 Edgar 142.5 76
12 40.6/ 41.4/ 18.1 Blur 2 Anton Marsden 139.7 366
13 39.8/ 39.9/ 20.2 Instant Wolf Edgar 139.7 10
14 35.8/ 32.2/ 32.0 Fast Fast Fast v2 Franz 139.4 3
15 39.1/ 39.1/ 21.9 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 139.1 230
16 30.0/ 20.9/ 49.2 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 139.1 228
17 34.8/ 30.9/ 34.3 Falcon v0.3 Ian Oversby 138.6 272
18 39.8/ 42.6/ 17.6 Probe Anton Marsden 137.1 367
19 35.1/ 33.7/ 31.2 scTest P.Kline 136.4 18
20 37.9/ 40.2/ 22.0 Tsunami v0.5 Ian Oversby 135.6 11
21 29.9/ 24.5/ 45.6 Terkonit 0.3 Christian Schmidt 135.4 1
22 36.4/ 37.7/ 25.9 Tiberius 3.1 Franz 135.0 106
23 35.3/ 35.9/ 28.8 YAP Franz 134.7 16
24 36.6/ 39.0/ 24.4 CC Paper 2 Franz 134.2 78
25 40.1/ 47.7/ 12.2 Scankiller 0.1 Christian Schmidt 132.5 27
Weekly age: 43 this week ( 22 last issue, 11 the issue before )
New warriors: 9 Turnover/age rate 21%
Average age: 119 ( 91 last issue, 145 the issue before )
Average score: 142 ( 137 last issue, 137 the issue before )
The top 25 warriors are represented by 12 independent authors: Franz, Marsden
and Oversby with 4; JKW, Edgar, Schimdt and Kline with 2; everyone else with
one.
Paul Kline, after some time of vacation, strikes back with his new scanner,
putting it on top of the hill. King position was held also by Solomon,
another new entry, Gigolo and unrequited love.
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94 - What's New ( or this week: the uplook )
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
2 41.6/ 35.9/ 22.5 Solomon v0.8 Ian Oversby 147.2 1
20 40.1/ 48.0/ 11.9 Tim Tack P.Kline 132.1 1
21 39.8/ 47.9/ 12.3 Scankiller 0.1 Christian Schmidt 131.7 1
23 32.9/ 35.5/ 31.6 scTest P.Kline 130.2 1
17 33.7/ 36.0/ 30.3 YAP Franz 131.5 1
13 38.1/ 40.7/ 21.2 Tsunami v0.5 Ian Oversby 135.6 1
19 36.8/ 42.2/ 21.0 Instant Wolf Edgar 131.4 1
1 47.9/ 46.2/ 5.8 He Scans Alone P.Kline 149.6 1
12 34.2/ 33.3/ 32.5 Fast Fast Fast v2 Franz 135.0 1
19 28.1/ 25.6/ 46.3 Terkonit 0.3 Christian Schmidt 130.5 1
Two big new entries: He scans alone and Solomon and some movement in the
mid/low part of the hill.
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94 - What's No More ( or this week: the outlook )
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
26 37.0/ 48.7/ 14.4 Pentagram 2 J.A.Denny 125.3 5
26 36.7/ 46.7/ 16.6 AK-47 Franz 126.7 48
26 36.0/ 44.1/ 19.9 vamp 0.2b bjoern guenzel 127.9 34
26 1.9/ 2.0/ 0.1 Tim Tack P.Kline 5.7 17
26 35.4/ 43.6/ 21.0 Frontwards v2 Steven Morrell 127.2 23
26 37.9/ 50.2/ 12.0 Tim Tack P.Kline 125.6 8
26 34.5/ 41.4/ 24.2 Instant Wolf Edgar 127.6 22
26 26.7/ 27.2/ 46.2 Terkonit 0.2 Christian Schmidt 126.2 23
26 1.6/ 1.7/ 0.7 Scanitator 3.0 Christian Schmidt 5.4 42
No aged warrior pushed off this week
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94 - What's Old ( or this week: the grey look )
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
18 39.8/ 42.6/ 17.6 Probe Anton Marsden 137.1 367
12 40.6/ 41.4/ 18.1 Blur 2 Anton Marsden 139.7 366
2 37.9/ 22.0/ 40.1 unrequited love kafka 153.8 287
17 34.8/ 30.9/ 34.3 Falcon v0.3 Ian Oversby 138.6 272
3 39.2/ 25.6/ 35.2 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 152.8 243
16 30.0/ 20.9/ 49.2 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 139.1 228
Impish enters the over 200 club.
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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
No changes this week, and I think we won't see any for long
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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
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 48.2/ 36.1/ 15.7 Silver Talon 1.1 Edgar 160.3 84
2 49.5/ 40.0/ 10.5 Pentagram 2.a J.A.Denny 159.0 5
3 47.9/ 38.7/ 13.4 Goothmonger v1.2 Ian Sutton 157.1 28
4 45.9/ 34.9/ 19.1 Hexagram J.A.Denny 156.9 3
5 48.3/ 42.9/ 8.8 Scankiller 0.1 Christian Schmidt 153.7 15
6 34.8/ 16.1/ 49.1 Terkonit 0.3 Christian Schmidt 153.6 2
7 43.2/ 35.9/ 20.9 Flimsy v0.6 Ian Oversby 150.4 4
8 45.7/ 45.2/ 9.1 The Stainless Steel Rat Christian Schmidt 146.3 26
9 39.6/ 33.0/ 27.4 Scanitator 3.0 Christian Schmidt 146.2 10
10 43.8/ 41.6/ 14.6 Flamberge 13.4 Matt Lewinski 146.1 53
11 40.7/ 35.5/ 23.9 Versatility 1.7 Ross Morgan-Linial 145.9 31
12 38.0/ 31.4/ 30.6 Hammermill 4.0 Matt Lewinski 144.7 90
13 33.0/ 21.5/ 45.5 DemonSpawn J.A.Denny 144.4 13
14 42.2/ 42.8/ 15.0 Mostly Harmless v1.1 Justin Kao 141.5 34
15 40.5/ 39.7/ 19.8 MI6 Philip Kendall 141.3 77
16 37.4/ 33.8/ 28.8 Apocalypse Matt Lewinski 141.1 61
17 40.5/ 40.4/ 19.0 Microsoft Office '96 Justin Kao 140.6 80
18 40.3/ 41.1/ 18.6 Vivid Radiation 2.0 Matt Lewinski 139.5 52
19 35.4/ 33.0/ 31.6 Dust 0.7.5 Justin Kao 137.7 30
20 38.9/ 42.1/ 19.0 HAL 9000 Justin Kao 135.7 96
21 39.2/ 44.3/ 16.5 Bash the Rat V1.4 Ian Sutton 134.2 45
22 40.4/ 47.3/ 12.3 Hologram Philip Kendall 133.5 24
23 32.2/ 31.1/ 36.7 Escargot 0.5 Justin Kao 133.3 50
24 30.3/ 27.8/ 42.0 Quantum Christian Schmidt 132.8 7
25 31.4/ 31.4/ 37.2 Heartworm Edgar 131.3 1
Top 25 Averages:
40.3/ 36.3/ 23.4 144.3 36
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The Hint
Gigolo
Gigolo is a warrior that combines the effectivenes of Probe's Q^2 scan
against slow starting pspacers, and the core trashing power of Rosebud
stone, enhanced with improved imps taken from Impfinity.
At the beginning I were looking for a way to improve Rosebud, with a faster
launch for his imps; this because the q^2 were giving lots of problems.
Impfinity uses a smaller continual launcher that's faster to boot and to
begin generating imp rings, just coupling it with my stone improved its
score some points. Not wanting too many imps I placed the launchers in a
position to be stopped by the stone once generated the right quantity of imps.
The tuning was rather long, and the whole thing works at his best only if
every part is in the right position. I know that one could take advantage
from knowing the realtive positions of the imps and the stone at his
advantage, but I decided to hide only the distance of them from the q^2 to
allow you see how Gigolo works. (BTW making it work with different values is
something I don't want to do now :-)
Second step was taking the q^2 from probe, just shortend for space reasons
and a bit improved in the pattern by Anton; this added a few more points
boosting Gigolo on top of the hill; he remained here some time and never
slipped below sixt-seventh position.
;redcode-94 verbose
;name Gigolo
;author Core Warrior staff
;strategy q^2 -> stone/imp
;strategy Rosebud stone, Probe qscan, Impfinity imps
;strategy v 0.2 new qscan
;assert CORESIZE == 8000
;kill Gigolo
istep equ 2667
bstep01 equ 2214
bstep02 equ 3285
trash equ (boot01+7-359)
impoff equ (boot01+5+365)
pmpof01 equ (impoff+1*istep-571)
pmpof02 equ (impoff+2*istep-493)
step equ -845
djnoff equ split+step
away equ impoff+2906
QB EQU (start+1800)
QS EQU (QD*2)
QD EQU 100
GAP EQU 12
REP EQU 8
REP2 EQU 2
datz EQU (table-3)
dat 10*QS, 2*QS ; can get 21 values from this table
table: dat 4*QS, 1*QS ; and can also use the initial value
dat 23*QS, 3*QS ; of fnd
qinc: spl #GAP,-GAP
tab: add.a table,table
slow: add.a @tab,fnd
fast: add.ba *tab,@slow
which: sne.i datz,*fnd
add.a #QD,fnd
mov.i datone,*fnd
add.ab fnd,fnd
fnd: mov.i QB,GAP/2
add.f qinc,fnd
mov.i datone,*fnd
djn.b fnd,#REP
jmp boot,}QS*13
start:
; WHICH
seq.i QB+QS*0,QB+QS*0+QD
jmp which,}QB+QS*0+QD/2
; FAST
seq.i QB+QS*1,QB+QS*1+QD
jmp fast,}QB+QS*1+QD/2
seq.i QB+QS*13,QB+QS*13+QD
jmp fast,{fast
seq.i QB+QS*2,QB+QS*2+QD
jmp fast,{tab
seq.i QB+QS*3,QB+QS*3+QD
jmp fast,}tab
; SLOW
seq.i QB+QS*4,QB+QS*4+QD
jmp >fast,}QB+QS*4+QD/2
seq.i QB+QS*5,QB+QS*5+QD
jmp slow,}QB+QS*5+QD/2
seq.i QB+QS*6,QB+QS*6+QD
jmp slow,{tab
seq.i QB+QS*7,QB+QS*7+QD
jmp slow,}tab
seq.i QB+QS*10,QB+QS*10+QD
jmp >fast,<tab
seq.i QB+QS*11,QB+QS*11+QD
jmp slow,<tab
seq.i QB+QS*12,QB+QS*12+QD
djn.f slow,tab
seq.i QB+QS*23,QB+QS*23+QD
jmp >fast,>tab
seq.i QB+QS*24,QB+QS*24+QD
jmp slow,>tab
seq.i QB+QS*17,QB+QS*17+QD
jmp slow,{fast
; TAB
seq.i QB+QS*8,QB+QS*8+QD
jmp <fast,}QB+QS*8+QD/2
seq.i QB+QS*9,QB+QS*9+QD
jmp tab,}QB+QS*9+QD/2
seq.i QB+QS*15,QB+QS*15+QD
jmp tab,<tab
seq.i QB+QS*16,QB+QS*16+QD
jmp tab,{tab
seq.i QB+QS*20,QB+QS*20+QD
djn.f <fast,tab
boot
spl impboot,}QB+QS*21
mov cc, @stptr1
for 5
mov {stptr, {stptr1
rof
spl *stptr1,<4000
stptr1 div.f #split+away,#split+away+2
datone dat }1,>1
impboot
spl boot02,}QB+QS*22
i FOR 2
boot&i
j FOR 4
mov.i {pdst&i, <pdst&i
ROF
mov.i instr&i, impoff+(i-1)*istep
for i==1
;-break
spl *stptr1,}QB+QS*23
rof
jmp @pdst&i, >trash-15-i*2
psrc&i dat 0, 0
pdst&i dat pend&i, pmpof&i+pend&i-pump&i
point&i equ (pump&i-pmpof&i+impoff+(i-1)*istep)
pump&i spl #1, >prime&i
ptr&i spl pump&i-pmpof&i+impoff-istep-1, {1335+i ;335+i
add.f #istep+1, ptr&i
prime&i mov.i point&i, point&i-2
pend&i
instr&i mov.i #istep, *0
ROF
clr spl #0, 0
split spl #-step, <step
stone mov >-step, step+1
add split, stone
cnt djn.f stone, <djnoff
stptr
cc dat 0, #-9
end start
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Questions? Concerns? Comments? Complaints? Mail them to people who care.
authors: Beppe Bezzi <bezzi@nemo.it> or Myer Bremer <bremermr@ecn.purdue.edu>
or Anton Marsden <amarsden@etherspace.gen.nz>
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