Issue 82 04 July, 2002
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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 no-pspace hill. Coverage will
follow wherever the action is. If you haven't a clue what I'm talking about
then check out these five-star Internet locals for more information:
FAQs are available from:
http://www.koth.org/corewar-faq.html
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.html
Web pages are at:
http://www.koth.org/ ;KOTH
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth ;Pizza
http://para.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar ;Planar
http://www.ociw.edu/~birk/corewar ;C.Birk
Newbies should check the above pages for the FAQs, language specification,
guides, and tutorials. Post questions to rec.games.corewar. All new players
are infinitely welcome!
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Welcome...
Several interesting warriors have been published since last issue, including
Candy, Disincentive and Potenza which were posted to the newsgroup. Also,
many of the Core War guides and magazines have been kindly converted to PDF
format by John Everitt. These can be found at:
http://www.firetrench.com/corewar/
Walter Hofmann has added a beginners' hill to his site, which also homes the
distributed warrior evolution project. For more info, check:
http://corewars.sourceforge.net/
Also, don't forget about the two Polish hills, standard and multiwarrior at:
http://www.if.pw.edu.pl/~adamow/corewar/
Apologies for this issue being a little slimmer than usual.
-- John Metcalf
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Current Status of the KOTH.ORG '94 No Pspace Hill:
# %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age
1 39/ 24/ 37 pTest4 G/M 153.5 9
2 37/ 20/ 43 Candy Lukasz Grabun 153.3 48
3 45/ 39/ 16 Hazy Lazy ... again Steve Gunnell 151.4 183
4 35/ 21/ 44 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 148.7 737
5 46/ 43/ 11 oneshot test Simon Wainwright 148.3 72
6 45/ 43/ 12 Terra Fizmo 147.1 16
7 46/ 44/ 10 Blade Fizmo 146.7 54
8 36/ 26/ 37 Uninvited John Metcalf 146.3 830
9 34/ 24/ 42 paper test John Metcalf 145.3 32
10 44/ 42/ 14 Behemot Michal Janeczek 144.6 971
11 42/ 42/ 16 Vanquisher Lukasz Grabun 143.1 239
12 44/ 46/ 10 G3-b David Moore 143.0 418
13 34/ 25/ 42 nPaper II Paul-V Khuong 142.8 1148
14 33/ 25/ 42 Purifier Lukasz Grabun 141.3 158
15 33/ 27/ 40 Inky Ian Oversby 139.5 627
16 43/ 46/ 11 scan test Lukasz Grabun 139.1 15
17 33/ 27/ 41 Olivia Ben Ford 139.1 876
18 42/ 46/ 12 pre75-z47a John Metcalf 138.7 90
19 40/ 43/ 16 QSOS Fizmo 137.4 86
20 37/ 39/ 24 Argon Fizmo 135.4 1
After 160 successful challenges only 9 warriors from last issue remain.
One of those which departed was Blacken (age 1363), having been the oldest
warrior around for quite some time (since it was age 426 in fact). Also
leaving the hill were Keyser Soze (823), Quicksilver (789), Revival Fire
(468), Deep Freeze X (199), Hopper (182) and Test C (152).
Grabun holds the top two ranks with two new warriors. Welcome to Fizmo,
who has made an impressive hill debut.
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The '94 No Pspace Hall of Fame: * indicates the warrior is still active.
Pos Name Author Age Strategy
1 Blacken Ian Oversby 1363 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
2 nPaper II Paul-V Khuong 1148 * MiniQ^3 -> Paper
3 Behemot Michal Janeczek 971 * MiniQ^3 -> Bomber
4 Olivia Ben Ford 876 * Q^4 -> Stone/imp
5 Uninvited John Metcalf 830 * MiniQ^3 -> Stone/imp
6 Keyser Soze Anton Marsden 823 Qscan -> Bomber/paper/imp
7 Quicksilver Michal Janeczek 789 Q^4 -> Stone/imp
8 Eraser II Ken Espiritu 781 Scanner
9 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 737 * Q^4 -> Stone/imp
10 Jinx Christian Schmidt 662 Scanner
11 Inky Ian Oversby 627 * Q^4 -> Paper/stone
12 Jade Ben Ford 600 Q^4 -> Stone/imp
13 Revival Fire P.Kline 468 Bomber
14 The Phantom Menace Anton Marsden 465 Qscan -> Paper/imp
15 Boys are Back in Town Philip Kendall 441 Scanner
= Zooom... John Metcalf 441 Scanner
17 G3-b David Moore 418 * Twoshot
18 Qtest Christian Schmidt 394 *Unknown*
19 Stalker P.Kline 393 Scanner
20 Vain Ian Oversby 330 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
21 Omnibus John Metcalf 327 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
22 Win! David Moore 322 Scanner
23 Hazy Lazy... Steve Gunnell 309 Scanner
24 Recovery Ian Oversby 280 MiniQ^2 -> Paper/stone
25 The Fugitive David Moore 274 MiniQ^2 -> Paper/imp
Blacken finally perishes, how long before a new warrior steals the top spot?
G3-b enters the HoF, replacing the older version which survived to an age of
413. Vanquisher should be next to enter here...
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Current Status of the Koenigstuhl Recursive ICWS '94 Draft Hill:
Koenigstuhl is a collection of infinite hills of published warriors
found at:
http://www.ociw.edu/COREWAR/koenigstuhl.html
Below we show the top 25 of a total 749 warriors - a smaller total than
previously, since the '88 warriors are no longer on the '94 hill:
rank name author score
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1 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 172.95
2 Quicksilver Michal Janeczek 171.34
3 Hazy Lazy ... Steve Gunnell 169.61
4 Uninvited John Metcalf 167.51
5 Behemot Michal Janeczek 167.01
6 Vanquisher II Lukasz Grabun 164.20
7 Candy Lukasz Grabun 163.73
8 Silver Talon 1.2 Edgar 163.05
9 The Machine Anton Marsden 162.26
10 Deep Freeze X Lukasz Grabun 162.20
11 Purifier Lukasz Grabun 162.00
12 Boys are Back in Town 1.1 Philip Kendall 161.08
13 Zooom... John Metcalf 160.80
14 Jade Ben Ford 160.57
15 Recovery Ian Oversby 160.12
16 Vanquisher Lukasz Grabun 160.10
17 nPaper II Paul-V Khuong 159.21
18 Newt Ian Oversby 158.96
19 Agony II Stefan Strack 158.48
20 Fixed Ken Espiritu 158.33
21 G2 David Moore 158.28
22 myVamp5.4 Paulsson 158.23
23 The Stormbringer Christian Schmidt 158.13
24 Phantasm 50 Robert Macrae 158.12
25 Disincentive Lukasz Grabun 157.87
Son of Vain claims top spot for Oversby/Pihlaja. Grabun has 6 entries in
the top 25, more than any other redcoder.
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Spring / Summer 2002 Corewar Tournament - Round 2 Results:
Round 2 inspired a smaller turnout than the previous round, with 9 authors
submitting 17 warriors in all. The warriors played round robin in a large
limited process core, with a total of 10000 rounds per battle. 63 hours,
11 minutes and 20 seconds later there emerged a clear winner from the afray,
boasting an impressive 61.4% wins.
Janeczek's FragPaper has top spot - being a stone/paper similar in principle
to Tempest. A stone/paper also holds second place, this time being Gunnell's
Hov Test, closely followed by the first of Hillis's evolved warriors.
A little further down, we find Ford's scanner and Wainwright's paper in ranks
6 and 7. Thorne's vampire takes 10th place. Macrae holds 12th rank with a
bomber, however much more interesting is his other entry, a triad of mutually
repairing scanners. Finally we have Moore's clear at 14th and WFB's bomber
at 16th.
# %Won Lost Tied Name Author Score %
1 61.4 15.5 23.1 FragPaper Michal Janeczek 207.39 100.0
2 46.3 16.1 37.6 Hov Test Tiny 4 Steve Gunnell 176.36 85.0
3 46.8 18.9 34.3 rdrc_biglp1 Dave Hillis 174.75 84.3
4 49.2 33.2 17.7 Bugtown Rap 9 Steve Gunnell 165.13 79.6
5 48.9 38.2 12.9 rdrc_biglp2 Dave Hillis 159.59 77.0
6 46.0 37.6 16.4 lockdown Ben Ford 154.39 74.4
7 37.8 27.2 35.0 pure paper Simon Wainwright 148.35 71.5
8 44.7 41.3 14.0 heLP Simon Wainwright 148.21 71.5
9 44.4 40.8 14.8 1hx Michal Janeczek 147.89 71.3
10 41.8 42.5 15.7 Slimy Time Vamp Philip Thorne 141.02 68.0
11 41.7 44.9 13.4 LoClair Philip Thorne 138.44 66.8
12 39.7 53.0 7.3 DB2 Robert Macrae 126.41 61.0
13 31.6 39.5 28.8 Mimp Ben Ford 123.74 59.7
14 34.7 62.8 2.4 Pinprick David Moore 106.64 51.4
15 24.7 44.9 30.4 In Search of Efficient Robert Macrae 104.37 50.3
16 31.2 64.4 4.4 Dwarfed Winston Featherly-Bean 98.01 47.3
17 18.2 68.2 13.6 Dwarfed Again Winston Featherly-Bean 68.32 32.9
To summarize the stategies used, there are three dat bombers (at ranks 12,
16 and 17) - two each of stone/paper (1, 2), evolved warrior (3, 5), vampire
(4, 10), scanner (6, 9), clear (11, 14) - and just one paper (7), stun bomber
(8), mirrored imp (13) and self-repair (15).
# Competitor Tiny BigLP Total
1 Michal Janeczek 93.3 100.0 193.3
2 Dave Hillis 99.9 84.3 184.2
3 Steve Gunnell 91.0 85.0 176.0
4 Ben Ford 100.0 74.4 174.4
5 Robert Macrae 89.7 61.0 150.7
6 Simon Wainwright 79.1 71.5 150.6
7 Philip Thorne 75.5 68.0 143.5
8 Winston Featherly-Bean 72.9 47.3 120.2
9 Martin Ankerl 88.2 . 88.2
10 Leonardo H. Liporati 84.3 . 84.3
11 Lukasz Grabun 81.3 . 81.3
12 mushroommaker 71.3 . 71.3
13 Arek Paterek 66.0 . 66.0
14 Paul Drake 61.9 . 61.9
15 Compudemon 53.9 . 53.9
16 David Moore . 51.4 51.4
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Questions? Concerns? Comments? Complaints? Mail them to people who care.
Beppe Bezzi <giuseppe.bezzi@galactica.it>, Philip Kendall <pak21@cam.ac.uk>,
Anton Marsden <anton@paradise.net.nz>, John Metcalf <grumpy3039@hotmail.com>
and Christian Schmidt <schmidt@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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