Article 1690 of rec.games.corewar: Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Path: hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!dunix.drake.edu!acad.drake.edu!pk6811s From: pk6811s@acad.drake.edu Subject: _Push Off_ Message-ID: <1993Mar17.081745.1@acad.drake.edu> Lines: 200 Sender: news@dunix.drake.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: acad.drake.edu Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 14:17:45 GMT _PUSH OFF_ A midweek review of Corewar March 17, 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. The Standings: # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 38/ 24/ 38 It nandor sieben 153 1013 2 46/ 42/ 12 Paratroops v2.1 W. Mintardjo 150 64 3 38/ 28/ 34 Imprimis 6 P.Kline 149 103 4 37/ 26/ 37 +0 Stormbringer Dan Nabutovsky 147 1133 5 42/ 37/ 21 Grimm's Vampyre c w blue 147 37 6 45/ 45/ 11 Medusa's v6 Mintardjo & Strack 145 58 7 36/ 27/ 37 Sphinx v2.8 W. Mintardjo 145 701 8 36/ 28/ 36 Night Wayne Sheppard 145 742 9 43/ 45/ 11 Iron Gate Wayne Sheppard 142 659 10 41/ 40/ 20 Stoned Again c w blue 142 39 11 42/ 43/ 14 Sucker 5 Stefan Strack 141 997 12 42/ 43/ 14 Twilight Pits 7.5 W. Mintardjo 141 15 13 42/ 42/ 16 Herem II Anders Ivner 141 477 14 41/ 43/ 15 sub-type-ps c w blue 140 14 15 43/ 46/ 11 Charon v8.1 Cisek,Strack,Kline 139 594 16 43/ 49/ 8 Agony 4.1 Stefan Strack 137 67 17 38/ 42/ 19 Leprechaun 1b Anders Ivner 134 615 18 42/ 50/ 8 Juggernaut v1.3 Anders Ivner 134 45 19 38/ 48/ 14 Emerald 3 P.Kline 128 1 20 36/ 47/ 17 Eclipse II P.Kline 125 2 21 34/ 48/ 18 DumbLuck j.layland 120 52 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. The Basics: -Core War Archives are available via anonymous FTP at soda.berkeley.edu in pub/corewar... -FAQ for this newsgroup is available via anonymous FTP at rtfm.mit.edu as pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.z ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. The Scoop: Whoa!! What a week we have had. Did I say the anti-imp crowd had shot their wad? Check out this bottom nine: 12 33/ 28/ 38 Sphinx v2.8 W. Mintardjo 138 645 13 40/ 42/ 18 Leprechaun 1b Anders Ivner 137 559 14 31/ 28/ 41 Chimera v3.5 W. Mintardjo 135 258 15 31/ 28/ 42 It nandor sieben 134 957 16 31/ 32/ 37 Imprimis 6 P.Kline 131 47 17 30/ 30/ 40 +0 Stormbringer Dan Nabutovsky 131 1077 18 40/ 50/ 10 Eclipse II P.Kline 130 1 19 33/ 37/ 30 Construction Paper c w blue 129 29 20 30/ 32/ 38 Night Wayne Sheppard 127 686 Wayne's fingernails suffered a severe stretching this week, but once again no imps were knocked off. They are tough! W. Mintardjo proved just how hard it is to knock off imps when he submitted: 21 2/ 98/ 0 Remove TMs61 and Chimera W. Mintardjo 7 0 which failed to remove EITHER program. Boy, when you can't even remove your own imp! :-) Congratulations to Nandor Sieben and (by the time you read this) Stefan Strack, whose It and Sucker 5 warriors, respectively, passed 1000 challenges. We all remember that Sucker 4 nearly made it to 1000, but was knocked off by a flurry of imp-stone fighters last Fall. After last week's comments, I received this: This bites. My original [name deleted] program was submitted just before Sucker 5. Then a mistake in a ;kill line took it off. I resubbmitted the same program. To which I can only respond, :-) Redundant strategy line of the week: ;strategy 4.1: tweaked constants Just can't get enough of that constant tweaking can we? Ominous submission of the week: Program "Get Info. on the hill" (length 0) by "Unknown" (contact address "fraserc@dcs.gla.ac.uk"): 21 2/ 98/ 0 Get Info. on the hill Unknown 7 0 We KNOW who you are, CF. Another CoreWar addiction was recorded: A challenger has arrived on the hill! Vital statistics: Program "manifold1" (length 8) by "Sasha Wait" (contact address "g2sasha@cdf.toronto.edu"): ;strategy v1.0 15/03/93 -- ignore pressing exams & problem sets Did we actually see a zero-length program submitted? And did it actually win 02% of its battles? Wayne Sheppard bid goodbye for a while as he moves to a new school. May you be reconnected soon! He challenged us to knock his programs off the Hill while he is gone. Since April 1 is coming up, maybe we could get WMS to prepare an appropriate report for him when he gets back: 20 21/ 59/ 20 Just Testing Novice Player 121 1 21 20/ 59/ 21 Night Wayne Sheppard 120 742 Followed by: 20 21/ 59/ 20 Just Testing2 Novice Player 121 1 21 20/ 59/ 21 Iron Gate Wayne Sheppard 120 659 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. The Outlook: 1 49/ 43/ 8 Juggernaut v1.3 Anders Ivner 154 1 6 46/ 47/ 7 prototype Stefan Strack 144 1 1 52/ 39/ 9 Paratroops v2.1 W. Mintardjo 164 3 2 47/ 42/ 11 Test Wayne Sheppard 152 1 5 46/ 46/ 9 TMs61 W. Mintardjo 145 1 9 44/ 47/ 9 TMsv5 W. Mintardjo 140 1 1 47/ 42/ 10 Medusa's v6 Mintardjo & Strack 152 10 8 41/ 38/ 21 sub-type-v2 c w blue 145 1 2 42/ 38/ 20 Grimm's Vampyre c w blue 147 1 5 41/ 38/ 21 sub-type-v2 c w blue 144 1 7 46/ 46/ 9 Medusa's v7 Mintardjo & Strack 146 1 10 37/ 29/ 34 Construction Paper c w blue 144 1 6 44/ 41/ 15 Twilight Pits 7.5 W. Mintardjo 146 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. The Quick Look: 21 2/ 55/ 43 LOOSER - based on MICE (j ???-Cedric D. Adjih 48 0 21 0/ 90/ 10 Looser II - the non-reven Cedric D. Adjih (new 11 0 21 1/ 62/ 38 Full Frequency 1.2 Joshua Houk 40 0 21 3/ 58/ 39 Bad Pfenning v1.0 Joshua Houk 49 0 21 6/ 66/ 29 Bad Pfenning v2.0 Joshua Houk 46 0 21 8/ 55/ 37 Bad Pfenning v3.0 Joshua Houk 62 0 21 6/ 91/ 3 sorrow Chris Parrinello 21 0 21 31/ 56/ 13 Quasit c w blue 106 0 21 17/ 78/ 5 stack attack Chris Parrinello 57 0 21 16/ 22/ 62 bunnies Steven Morrell 111 0 21 14/ 76/ 9 CMP-Trapper Chris Parrinello 52 0 21 6/ 73/ 21 Imp Hunter2.0 Kirk Gorden 40 0 21 18/ 66/ 16 Iron Carpet Wayne Sheppard 71 0 21 9/ 46/ 46 SupaDwarf 0.3 Andrew Scott 72 0 21 21/ 69/ 10 PLASMA Wayne Sheppard 73 0 21 24/ 71/ 5 CMP-Trapper Chris Parrinello 77 0 21 4/ 93/ 3 The Emperors New Clothes J. Horwich 16 0 21 38/ 48/ 15 DumbLuck j.layland 128 0 21 22/ 57/ 21 sub-type-g c w blue 88 0 21 3/ 85/ 12 Victriola Joshua Houk 21 0 21 24/ 50/ 26 Redips Alex MacAulay 99 0 21 7/ 70/ 23 Polly Magnus Sandberg 45 0 21 15/ 53/ 32 r j.layland 77 0 21 7/ 93/ 1 sorrow Chris Parrinello 21 0 21 0/ 69/ 31 Self-splitting IMP W. Mintardjo 32 0 21 31/ 40/ 29 sub-type-b+r c w blue 123 0 21 2/ 98/ 0 Unknown Unknown 7 0 21 7/ 58/ 35 sub-type-s-98 c w blue 55 0 21 6/ 80/ 15 B Mice Rodney Schuler 31 0 21 31/ 45/ 24 Harm c w blue 117 0 21 19/ 71/ 10 Gala V1.0 Chris Parrinello 68 0 21 33/ 51/ 17 Test Wayne Sheppard 115 0 21 23/ 65/ 12 multi dwarf nandor sieben 80 0 21 30/ 67/ 3 CMP-Trapper Chris Parrinello 93 0 21 29/ 47/ 24 multi dwarf nandor sieben 112 0 21 29/ 45/ 26 multi dwarf 2 nandor sieben 112 0 21 0/ 86/ 14 Groff Ziad Ismail 14 0 21 6/ 93/ 1 Krupp Fredrik 20 0 21 7/ 85/ 8 Little Warrior Cedric D. Adjih 29 0 21 2/ 98/ 0 Unknown Unknown 7 0 21 19/ 70/ 11 dwarf Fredrik 69 0 21 9/ 46/ 45 Gala V1.0 Chris Parrinello 72 0 21 28/ 64/ 8 p1 j.layland 92 0 21 27/ 73/ 1 Lander c w blue 80 0 21 31/ 49/ 21 stone2e Sasha Wait 112 0 20 27/ 71/ 2 BeeBee Wayne Sheppard 82 1 20 27/ 69/ 3 Plasma/variations Wayne Sheppard 85 1 20 30/ 54/ 16 Gala V1.0 Chris Parrinello 106 1 21 7/ 71/ 22 ScanVamp Cedric D. Adjih 43 0 21 1/ 72/ 27 Polly-II Unknown 31 0 21 2/ 98/ 0 Pip Fredrik 7 0 21 3/ 94/ 4 Florp 1 Fredrik 12 0 21 0/ 93/ 7 Emeretta Magnus 7 0 21 1/ 53/ 47 mer Fredrik 49 0 21 0/ 45/ 55 Kossa-Larma Ziad 55 0 21 0/ 46/ 54 Kossa-Larma Ziad 54 0 21 0/ 47/ 52 Kossa-Larma2 Ziad 53 0 21 1/ 48/ 51 vc j.layland 54 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. The Hint: Even if you are using an optimal pattern number, try another one. I found that 2365 (mod-5) was ineffective against Night, but 3094 (mod-2) works great. I don't think the mod-x part is important here, but somehow 2365, if it doesn't scan Night right away, continues scanning just ahead of the imps, and takes much longer to find him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. The End: Paul Kline pk6811s@acad.drake.edu