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From: Philip Kendall <pak21@kendalls.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Anti-Dwarf
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:07:13 +0100
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.980914151740.22234G-
100000@eduserv1.rug.ac.be>, Pieter Audenaert
<Pieter.Audenaert@rug.ac.be> wrote
>Last week I was thinking about a program that has a 100 percent chance to
>win all battles against Dwarf...
>Watch this one:

[snip 5 line warrior]

>Now here's the question: can anyone improve on the number of lines 
>(4 lines??? 3 lines??????) or do you agree that this is really the bare
>minimum? (Do you have another 5 lines solution? Let me know...)

Three lines is easy:

;redcode-94
;name Anti-Dwarf
;author Philip Kendall
;strategy Kill Dwarf
;assert CORESIZE==8000

gate    equ     (foo-8)

start   spl     2
foo     djn.f   #0,<gate
        djn.f   #0,<(gate+1)
        
        end     start

I don't think two's possible though...

Phil

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