Article 1843 of rec.games.corewar: Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Path: hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!dunix.drake.edu!acad.drake.edu!pk6811s From: pk6811s@acad.drake.edu Subject: _Push Off_ Message-ID: <1993May28.163351.1@acad.drake.edu> Lines: 160 Sender: news@dunix.drake.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: acad.drake.edu Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 22:33:51 GMT _PUSH OFF_ A midweek review of Corewar May 28, 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. The Standings: # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 35/ 25/ 40 FlyPaper 2.0 J.Layland 146 216 2 44/ 44/ 12 Dragon Spear c w blue 145 613 3 31/ 20/ 49 Imprimis 6 P.Kline 143 911 4 30/ 21/ 49 Snake Wayne Sheppard 139 271 5 39/ 40/ 21 Distance v6.3 Brant D. Thomsen 138 5 6 42/ 46/ 12 Fire Storm v1.1 W. Mintardjo 138 150 7 30/ 23/ 47 Night Crawler Wayne Sheppard 138 511 8 41/ 45/ 14 Iron Gate 1.01 Wayne Sheppard 137 339 9 33/ 29/ 38 ImpTest J.Layland 136 1 10 30/ 23/ 47 Oak Stake II c w blue 136 4 11 31/ 25/ 44 Sphinx v2.8 W. Mintardjo 136 1509 12 42/ 48/ 11 Agony 5.2 Stefan Strack 136 138 13 42/ 49/ 10 Backstabber Anders Ivner 134 62 14 32/ 30/ 38 ImpsAreMyFriend J.Layland 134 185 15 29/ 24/ 47 sub-type-os c w blue 134 3 16 39/ 47/ 14 Arghhhh Fredrik Ohrstrom 131 6 17 26/ 22/ 52 ttest nandor sieben 131 387 18 35/ 41/ 24 Leprechaun 1b Anders Ivner 128 1423 19 39/ 49/ 12 Iron Sword Wayne Sheppard 128 52 20 38/ 49/ 13 Sucker 6 Stefan Strack 127 533 21 21/ 28/ 51 test Joshua Houk 114 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Another long-standing core-warrior was on the ropes this week as competitors pummeled KotH with new and various fighters: 20 32/ 42/ 25 Leprechaun 1b Anders Ivner 122 1378 But he's still standing as of this report. Nomination for worst advice of the week goes to: Program "Zorba 0.2" (length 5) by "Jarkko Lindblad" (contact address "lindblad@cc.helsinki.fi"): ;strategy We don't need no stinkin' strategy For best advice: Program "Kiwi 1.1" (length 97) by "Joshua Houk" (contact address "houk@athena.cs.uga.edu"): ;strategy ;strategy Imp-spiral with paper mods and bootstrapping. Oh yeah, ;strategy remember never to "improve" programs without a good bit ;strategy of testing, too... :) W. Sheppard seems to have established that NO ONE is using a reflection at a multiple of 4 with his Magic Mirror program - nice idea though. Program "Magic Mirror" (length 100) by "Wayne Sheppard" (contact address "wsheppar@st6000.sct.edu"): ;strategy Reflections for any program with a multiple of 4 distance And Stefan Strack's tournament goes into the fourth round with only two undefeated opponents - ahem ahem - yours truly and Dan Nabutovsky. Break a leg, Dan. (for all you non-USA residents, that is a common expression of encouragement :-) Of course I will be sending up my favorite warrior "{^&*(....&() v.7" hmm, seems to be some static on this line. Note to SS: Lucky win? No way! That program is designed to win at least one every time :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. The Outlook: 8 39/ 40/ 22 Distance v6.3 Brant D. Thomsen 138 1 2 46/ 45/ 9 Backstabber Anders Ivner 147 1 1 33/ 21/ 46 Sphinx v4.6 W. Mintardjo 146 1 3 33/ 22/ 45 Sphinx v4.7 W. Mintardjo 143 1 6 29/ 20/ 51 NC II Wayne Sheppard 138 1 9 32/ 29/ 39 ImpTest J.Layland 136 1 7 30/ 23/ 46 Oak Stake c w blue 138 1 10 29/ 23/ 48 Oak Stake II c w blue 135 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. The Quick Look: 20 20/ 33/ 47 TP W. Mintardjo 107 1 20 25/ 44/ 31 GHD J.Layland 107 1 21 24/ 75/ 1 ick KE Lewin 74 0 21 10/ 76/ 14 Icky KE Lewin 44 0 21 16/ 75/ 9 Dwarf A. K. Dewdney 56 0 21 26/ 59/ 15 Wedge Rodney Schuler 94 0 21 4/ 70/ 25 leech KE Lewin 38 0 21 17/ 58/ 25 quick Cliff Fitzmorris 76 0 21 13/ 83/ 4 Blight KE Lewin 44 0 21 4/ 72/ 24 Castle KE Lewin 37 0 21 19/ 37/ 44 Invest Andre van Dalen 100 0 21 34/ 51/ 16 Nova 1 Jay Han 117 0 21 33/ 50/ 17 Nova 2 Jay Han 116 0 21 12/ 85/ 3 OhYeah KE Lewin 38 0 19 10/ 15/ 74 repimp nandor sieben 105 1 17 39/ 45/ 16 test 6 Fredrik Ohrstrom 133 1 19 29/ 50/ 21 CraMPon c w blue 108 1 21 0/ 92/ 8 memtest Stefan Strack 9 0 21 13/ 47/ 39 Fortress Malcolm Ryan 79 0 21 20/ 67/ 13 Govern 1 Jay Han 74 0 21 10/ 54/ 37 Impact 1 Jay Han 66 0 19 24/ 21/ 55 Kiwi 1.1 Joshua Houk 126 1 18 34/ 40/ 27 Berserker Anders Ivner 128 1 21 17/ 78/ 5 Cluster I Stephen Whiting 55 0 21 2/ 37/ 61 ENDER 1.3 Lewin 67 0 21 36/ 49/ 15 Emerald 4 P.Kline 123 0 19 33/ 42/ 25 Herem III Anders Ivner 123 1 21 13/ 40/ 47 Zorba 0.3 Jarkko Lindblad 87 0 20 24/ 30/ 45 papertest Anders Ivner 119 1 19 30/ 44/ 27 Early Bird c w blue 116 1 18 37/ 50/ 13 Eclipse II P.Kline 124 1 19 38/ 50/ 11 Iron Sword Wayne Sheppard 127 1 21 33/ 55/ 12 sub-type-c c w blue 110 0 19 13/ 37/ 50 test paper c w blue 89 1 21 15/ 75/ 10 Tester V1.0 Tony Halse 56 0 18 39/ 45/ 16 sub-type-v2 c w blue 133 1 17 25/ 23/ 52 Chimera v3.5 W. Mintardjo 128 1 21 12/ 44/ 44 Fortress 1.1 Malcolm Ryan 80 0 20 19/ 53/ 28 Magic Mirror Wayne Sheppard 86 1 21 22/ 45/ 33 Smolder v1.0 Brant D. Thomsen 98 0 21 12/ 69/ 19 StunGun v1.2 Han-Wen Nienhuys 54 0 21 15/ 34/ 51 toilet paper Steven Morrell 95 0 20 17/ 60/ 23 DeathLance-2.1 Jonathan Roy 75 1 19 28/ 30/ 42 Gamma Paper 4.0 W. Mintardjo 125 1 18 19/ 18/ 64 Simplicity v2.2 Brant D. Thomsen 120 1 21 4/ 70/ 26 Doppleganger-1.0 Jonathan Roy 38 0 20 16/ 20/ 64 Simplicity v2.3a Brant D. Thomsen 112 1 20 20/ 44/ 36 Nation Writer 1.0 Joshua Houk 97 2 21 33/ 54/ 12 RoadRunner K (20) S. Halvorsen 112 0 21 22/ 77/ 1 Three Line Wonder Rodney Schuler 68 0 21 20/ 35/ 45 anti-vampire paper c w blue 105 0 21 26/ 30/ 43 FlyPaper 2.Something J.Layland 122 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. The Hint: Correction from last week's Hint: I was confusing the code from Night Crawler III with the current version on KotH. Wayne informed me that the version on the Hill does not use a forward decrement. (So how come it still kills Eclipse II? :-) Sorry, didn't have time to work up a new hint this week :-( ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. The End: Paul Kline pk6811s@acad.drake.edu