From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed1-hme1!newsfeed.internetmci.com!164.67.42.145!nntp.info.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!majestic.mcs.vuw.ac.nz!amarsden Wed Sep 3 13:12:44 1997 Article: 7815 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed1-hme1!newsfeed.internetmci.com!164.67.42.145!nntp.info.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!majestic.mcs.vuw.ac.nz!amarsden From: Anton Marsden Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Core Warrior 62 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 21:10:24 +1200 Organization: School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, VUW Lines: 288 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@majestic.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 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ Hill activity has increased substantially since the last issue. Everyone's come out of hibernation :-) --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 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ Anton's Core War Tournament Round 3 Results Entry Name Author Score ------------------------------------- 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ Questions? Concerns? Comments? Complaints? Mail them to people who care. authors: Beppe Bezzi , Anton Marsden , Christian Schmidt and Philip Kendall