Issue 59 29 June, 1997
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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.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
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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
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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
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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
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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,<ccd
add #23,ccd
spl 1,bomb1+4
mov <ccb+3,<ccd
ccd mov {ccb+1,{cca
mov <ccb+3,<ccd
djn @ccd,#2
div.f #0,ccd
;--------
;MINI HSA
;--------
step EQU 9
ptr EQU (bomb-5)
away EQU (bomb1-4000) ; not the actual value
bomb: spl #1,{1
kill: mov bomb,<ptr
mptr: mov >ptr,>ptr
jmn.f kill,>ptr
a: add #step+1,@mptr
scan: jmz.f a,<ptr
slt @mptr,#btm-ptr+3
djn kill,@mptr
djn a,#16
btm: jmp a,{kill
boot: mov btm,@dest
N FOR 8
mov btm-N,<dest
ROF
spl @dest,1
dest: mov #250,@away
mov bomb,<dest
div.f #0,dest
FOR 6
dat 0,0
ROF
dbomb dat >-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,<cdest
mov tar,<cdest
mov tar-1,<cdest
cdest mov dbomb,*caway
spl <cdest,<2000
mov tar-2,@cdest
div.f #0,cdest
spl #0,<-1151+3
mov 197,tar-197*3500
tar add.ab {0,}0
djn.f -2,<-1151
END think
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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@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
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