Issue 62 3 September, 1997
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Core Warrior is a 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 Stormking's new 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.nc5.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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Hill activity has increased substantially since the last issue. Everyone's
come out of hibernation :-)
--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
Last challenge: Tue Sep 2 17:42:20 PDT 1997
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 38.6/ 27.2/ 34.2 obvious to those who know Robert Macrae 150.0 1
2 37.7/ 26.1/ 36.2 Pulp v0.4 Ian Oversby 149.2 4
3 38.3/ 27.5/ 34.2 obvious to those who know Robert Macrae 149.1 2
4 33.9/ 25.1/ 40.9 Newt Ian Oversby 142.8 42
5 41.9/ 44.1/ 14.0 C^3 Christian Schmidt 139.8 10
6 39.9/ 40.3/ 19.8 Red Baron Christian Schmidt 139.6 7
7 31.8/ 25.7/ 42.5 Merciless-A Ken Espiritu 138.0 9
8 34.0/ 31.5/ 34.5 Nine Seven Six M R Bremer 136.6 160
9 38.2/ 40.0/ 21.8 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 136.4 337
10 34.3/ 32.3/ 33.3 Head or Tail Christian Schmidt 136.3 84
11 34.8/ 33.7/ 31.4 Baseline Ken Espiritu 136.0 6
12 29.2/ 22.9/ 47.9 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 135.4 296
13 41.8/ 49.0/ 9.2 He Scans Again P.Kline 134.7 39
14 38.2/ 42.1/ 19.6 No Good Ian Oversby 134.3 14
15 35.5/ 37.1/ 27.3 test p209 Beppe 133.9 12
16 40.0/ 46.8/ 13.2 Overdrive Christian Schmidt 133.2 27
17 37.3/ 41.7/ 21.0 Electric Head Anton Marsden 133.0 51
18 38.0/ 43.7/ 18.4 Test OS Ian Oversby 132.3 4
19 35.1/ 38.3/ 26.5 PAN-TAU-RA 2 Christian Schmidt 132.0 12
20 31.6/ 31.3/ 37.2 RetroQ II P.Kline 131.8 3
21 38.9/ 46.0/ 15.2 Blain Nimon 131.8 62
22 35.7/ 40.2/ 24.1 Bigger Brother Philip Kendall 131.2 5
23 25.4/ 19.8/ 54.8 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 131.1 335
24 36.5/ 42.9/ 20.5 Used Car Ian Oversby 130.2 7
25 34.7/ 39.6/ 25.6 First Strike Nimon 129.9 57
Age since last issue: 27 ( 2 last issue, 2 the issue before )
New warriors: 13 Turnover/age rate 48%
Average age: 63 ( 74 last issue, 74 the issue before )
Average score: 136 ( 142 last issue, 139 the issue before )
The top 25 warriors are represented by 13 independent authors: Oversby
with 6; Schmidt with 5; Macrae, Espiritu, Marsden, Kline and Nimon with 2.
All others with one warrior each.
Yet another gap has opened up between the top few and the rest of the
pack. Electric Head has dropped from 1st to 17th! Macrae is back with a
vengeance.
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94 - What's New
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
6 42.3/ 41.7/ 16.0 No Good Ian Oversby 142.9 1
?? ??.?/ ??.?/ ??.? test p209 Beppe ???.? 1
12 34.2/ 34.1/ 31.6 PAN-TAU-RA 2 Christian Schmidt 134.3 1
13 39.7/ 44.3/ 16.1 C^3 Christian Schmidt 135.0 1
16 28.7/ 24.3/ 47.0 Merciless-A Ken Espiritu 133.0 1
2 43.1/ 39.6/ 17.3 Red Baron Christian Schmidt 146.6 1
14 39.5/ 43.3/ 17.2 Used Car Ian Oversby 135.7 1
3 35.8/ 30.0/ 34.2 Baseline Ken Espiritu 141.6 1
12 38.1/ 38.9/ 23.0 Bigger Brother Philip Kendall 137.4 1
20 38.3/ 43.7/ 18.0 Test OS Ian Oversby 132.9 1
25 31.5/ 31.8/ 36.7 RetroQ II P.Kline 131.2 1
1 38.4/ 25.9/ 35.7 Pulp v0.4 Ian Oversby 150.9 1
1 38.6/ 27.2/ 34.2 obvious to those who know Robert Macrae 150.0 1
There have been a lot of quality warriors challenging the Hill this month.
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94 - What's No More (Age >= 10)
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
26 40.3/ 52.5/ 7.1 Obsidian Nimon 128.2 29
26 34.8/ 42.4/ 22.7 Solomon v0.8 Ian Oversby 127.2 116
26 36.3/ 46.8/ 17.0 myVamp5.4 Paulsson 125.8 24
26 36.4/ 45.9/ 17.6 Fawkes v0.2 Ian Oversby 126.9 14
26 27.4/ 30.6/ 42.1 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 124.2 332
26 29.9/ 33.7/ 36.4 Terkonit 3 Christian Schmidt 126.2 22
26 36.3/ 45.7/ 18.0 NCC-1701-A Philip Kendall 127.0 83
26 36.0/ 46.2/ 17.8 Guessed v0.1 Ian 125.9 21
26 28.2/ 30.9/ 40.9 RetroQ P.Kline 125.5 82
26 36.1/ 44.4/ 19.5 Guru Robert Hale 127.9 16
26 36.3/ 46.1/ 17.6 C^2 Christian Schmidt 126.6 34
26 28.2/ 29.3/ 42.5 Ultraviolet-A Ken Espiritu 127.1 17
26 29.5/ 29.0/ 41.5 Ultra-RQ^2 Ken Espiritu 130.1 31
26 29.4/ 28.4/ 42.1 unrequited love kafka 130.4 41
26 37.1/ 43.8/ 19.0 Big Brother Philip Kendall 130.5 14
26 40.6/ 49.4/ 10.1 BeachBlanketBingo J E Long 131.7 12
Gigolo has departed from the Hill at the ripe old age of 332. Solomon v0.8
has also been kicked off.
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94 - What's Old
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
9 38.2/ 40.0/ 21.8 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 136.4 337
23 25.4/ 19.8/ 54.8 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 131.1 335
12 29.2/ 22.9/ 47.9 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 135.4 296
The next warrior to enter this section will be Nine Seven Six... if it
survives.
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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 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 337 * Q^2 -> Bomber
5 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 335 * Stone/imp
6 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 332 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
7 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 296 * Q^2 -> Stone/imp
8 Falcon v0.3 Ian Oversby 275 P-warrior
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 Nine Seven Six M R Bremer 160 * Q^2 -> Stone/imp
19 Memories Beppe 152 Scanner
20 Tiberius 3.1 Franz 130 Q^2 -> Paper
21 Solomon v0.8 Ian Oversby 116 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
Gigolo finishes in 6th place and Solomon in 21st.
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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: Mon Aug 25 22:45:07 PDT 1997
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 39.7/ 19.8/ 40.5 Dust 7.0 Justin Kao 159.7 86
2 49.2/ 41.8/ 9.0 BeachBlanketBingo J E Long 156.6 1
3 47.9/ 40.4/ 11.7 Guessed v0.1 Ian 155.4 46
4 46.1/ 38.2/ 15.7 guru v0.1 Robert Hale 154.0 22
5 40.6/ 27.4/ 32.0 Sections Zul Nadzri 153.7 66
6 38.5/ 23.9/ 37.6 A Blaise Affair Robert J. Street 153.2 26
7 45.3/ 37.5/ 17.3 qbomber v .469 Ryan Coleman 153.1 57
8 44.7/ 39.9/ 15.4 Hell's Fury Robert Hale 149.5 3
9 45.2/ 42.4/ 12.5 qDeath v .169 Ryan Coleman 148.0 53
10 35.2/ 24.5/ 40.3 Six-Finger Discount From Ryan Coleman 146.0 60
11 44.4/ 43.3/ 12.3 Nautilus Mole IX 145.6 25
12 41.1/ 38.3/ 20.6 Pain and Panic v0.1 Robert Hale 143.8 15
13 43.6/ 44.9/ 11.5 Short Sword 4 JS Pulido 142.2 88
14 42.2/ 42.7/ 15.1 guru v0.3 Robert Hale 141.8 16
15 40.3/ 39.2/ 20.5 Pain and Panic v0.2 Robert Hale 141.5 7
16 40.5/ 40.7/ 18.8 Pain and Panic v0.3 Robert Hale 140.2 6
17 36.6/ 33.5/ 29.9 If I only had a brain? Ryan Coleman 139.7 58
18 34.3/ 30.5/ 35.2 Zorm-B Anonymous 138.0 91
19 31.5/ 26.3/ 42.3 It's a Harmless Addition Robert Hale 136.7 44
20 27.0/ 21.6/ 51.3 4-Finger Discount From th Ryan Coleman 132.4 61
21 38.0/ 45.3/ 16.7 Wolverine Robert Hale 130.8 2
22 30.8/ 31.3/ 37.9 Kohonenian Dream Robert J. Street 130.2 80
23 30.2/ 31.2/ 38.5 It's a Harmless Addiction Robert Hale 129.2 47
24 37.8/ 49.0/ 13.2 Dwa Michaly b Waldemar Bartolik 126.7 94
25 17.5/ 56.8/ 25.6 FireAnt 0.0.1 Robert Hetland 78.2 12
Top 25 Averages:
38.7/ 36.4/ 24.9 141.0 42
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Anton's Core War Tournament Round 3 Results
Entry Name Author Score
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Fern Ilmari Karonen 4
Life Philip Kendall 3
PStars Philipp Offermann 2
Fireworks Brian Haskin 1
The quality of entries in this round was very good.
I've decided to end the tournament here because quite a few players can't
play any more rounds and I'm running out of ideas for rounds :-)
I'll publish the entries for all rounds soon... I'm not going to declare a
winner for the tournament because of the nature of the tournament... you
can calculate your final score if you're interested though.
For those who are interested in running a tournament like this in the
future, try single round tournaments (competitions). It's OK to have
multiple rounds if the rounds involve writing warriors but when you have
obscure rules for different rounds, the individual rounds have no
correlation and hence the tournament becomes a little bit complicated to
judge.
However, I think most people found the tournament interesting because it
was so different from normal Hill competition.
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Questions? Concerns? Comments? Complaints? Mail them to people who care.
authors: Beppe Bezzi <bezzi@nemo.it>, Anton Marsden <amarsden@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>,
Christian Schmidt <schmc003@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de> and Philip Kendall
<pak21@cam.ac.uk>
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