From news-rocq.inria.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!news.cs.utah.edu!peruvian.cs.utah.edu!bdthomse Fri Jul 8 16:26:16 1994 Article: 994 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!news.cs.utah.edu!peruvian.cs.utah.edu!bdthomse From: bdthomse@peruvian.cs.utah.edu (Brant Thomsen) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: The '94 Warrior Date: 8 Jul 1994 05:13:43 GMT Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Lines: 346 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2vina7$h0b@magus.cs.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: peruvian.cs.utah.edu Originator: bdthomse@peruvian.cs.utah.edu __ __| | ) _ \ | | \ \ / _) | __ \ _ \ / ( | | | \ \ \ / _` | __| __| | _ \ __| | | | | __/ \__ |___ __| \ \ \ / ( | | | | ( | | _| _| |_|\___| _/ _| \_/\_/ \__,_|_| _| _|\___/ _| July 7, 1994 Issue #10 ______________________________________________________________________________ This newsletter covers the current status of the ICWS '94 Draft hills, and also attempts to keep up with the latest ideas on how the new standard will affect corewars in general. I hope you enjoy it! If you are unfamiliar with the '94 draft standard, you can learn more about it by reading the FAQ for this newsgroup. In addition, the program pMARS includes a highly recommended tutorial on the new standard. Feel free to send me e-mail if you have any difficulty finding either of them, if you need to have a corewar item mailed to you, or if you have any other questions. The FAQ is available through anonymous FTP to rtfm.mit.edu, as /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.Z ______________________________________________________________________________ CHANGES and CORRECTIONS: The next chapter in Steven Morrell's "My First Corewar Book" is now available by anonymous FTP to ftp.csua.berkeley.edu (NOTE THE NEW ADDRESS) in the pub\corewar\incoming as "chapter.2.Z". This chapter provides an excellent overview on "stones" that every budding corewar expert will want to have a copy of. The first ten issues of this newsletter can also be found on ftp.csua.berkeley.edu as "94warr1.txt.Z". If you missed any issues in the past, now is your chance to get them. ______________________________________________________________________________ The ICWS '94 Draft Hill: Core size: 8000 instructions Max processes: 8000 per program Duration: After 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared. Max entry length: 100 instructions The current ICWS '94 Draft hill on "Pizza": # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 47/ 32/ 22 Homemade Ice Cream P.Kline 161 1 2 40/ 27/ 33 Torch t5 P.Kline 154 23 3 37/ 24/ 39 Sasami T.Hsu 150 43 4 35/ 20/ 45 Blue Funk 3 Steven Morrell 149 18 5 42/ 39/ 19 Pyramid v5.5 Michael Constant 146 108 6 42/ 39/ 19 Keystone t33 P.Kline 145 130 7 33/ 22/ 45 Ryooki T.Hsu 143 5 8 30/ 18/ 53 Aeka T.Hsu 141 20 9 38/ 36/ 26 Stimpy v2.0 Brant D. Thomsen 140 59 10 31/ 22/ 47 NC 94 Wayne Sheppard 139 343 11 39/ 39/ 21 Christopher Steven Morrell 139 251 12 29/ 19/ 51 Cannonade P.Kline 139 188 13 28/ 19/ 53 Insight v1.0 Brant D. Thomsen 138 50 14 31/ 25/ 44 Lucky 3 Stefan Strack 137 323 15 40/ 43/ 18 SJ-4 J.Layland 137 19 16 41/ 47/ 13 Iron Gate 1.5 Wayne Sheppard 135 307 17 27/ 21/ 53 Blue Funk Steven Morrell 132 330 18 36/ 41/ 23 Sauron v6.0 Michael Constant 132 54 19 41/ 49/ 10 Rave 4.1 Stefan Strack 132 295 20 36/ 43/ 21 Request v2.0 Brant D. Thomsen 129 11 The hill became much younger over the last couple of weeks with the loss of the two oldest programs. "Dragon Spear" by C. W. Blue was kicked off the hill at the rip old age of 346. Three cycles later, "Request" by Brant Thomsen also was overcome, at the age of 347. With the loss of these two fossels, "NC (Night Crawler) 94" is now the oldest program -- and it looks like it will be sticking around for a while still. See Steven Morrell's new tutorial if you're curious how NC does so well. "Blue Funk 3", "Ryooki" and "Homemade Ice Cream" are three new additions to the hill that all seem to be doing well. Excited corewar fans everywhere are anxiously waiting to find out what other exciting warriors Paul Kline will be cooking up in the future. The current ICWS '94 Draft hill on "Stormking": # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 44/ 29/ 26 Sauron v3.6 Michael Constant 160 3 2 42/ 30/ 28 Killer instinct Anders Ivner 154 26 3 36/ 20/ 43 Twimpede+/8000-d1 Jay Han 152 16 4 35/ 20/ 45 Lucky 3 Stefan Strack 151 14 5 36/ 22/ 42 NC II Wayne Sheppard 150 81 6 36/ 24/ 40 Sphinx v5.1 W. Mintardjo 147 84 7 43/ 40/ 17 Ntttgtstitd Simon Hovell 146 27 8 41/ 38/ 21 Request v2.0 Brant D. Thomsen 144 19 9 38/ 33/ 29 stone-test Stefan Strack 142 1 10 41/ 41/ 18 Sylvester v1.0 Brant D. Thomsen 141 63 11 29/ 19/ 52 ttti nandor sieben 140 37 12 32/ 25/ 43 JustTakingALookSee J.Layland 139 80 13 29/ 20/ 50 ttti94 nandor sieben 138 32 14 30/ 23/ 46 Snake Wayne Sheppard 137 36 15 39/ 42/ 18 Beholder's Eye v1.7 W. Mintardjo 136 93 16 42/ 48/ 10 Rave 4.1 Stefan Strack 135 9 17 39/ 44/ 18 SJ-4 J.Layland 134 30 18 38/ 42/ 21 tiny J.Layland 133 61 19 37/ 43/ 20 Christopher Steven Morrell 131 25 20 36/ 44/ 20 Fast Food v2.1 Brant D. Thomsen 128 39 ______________________________________________________________________________ The ICWS '94 Draft Experimental Hill: Core size: 55,440 instructions Max processes: 10,000 per program Duration: After 500,000 cycles, a tie is declared. Max entry length: 200 instructions The current ICWS '94 Experimental (Big) hill on "Pizza": # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 49/ 34/ 17 ivscan6b J.Layland 165 22 2 47/ 35/ 18 Pyramid v5.3 Michael Constant 159 49 3 46/ 34/ 20 Request-55440 Brant D. Thomsen 158 158 4 36/ 17/ 47 Aleph 1 Jay Han 156 20 5 36/ 24/ 40 Variation G-1 Jay Han 148 122 6 43/ 39/ 18 Fscan Jay Han 146 6 7 41/ 37/ 22 Aleph 0 Jay Han 146 21 8 40/ 36/ 24 Stimpy v2.0 Brant D. Thomsen 144 13 9 31/ 23/ 46 NotSoBigImps James Layland 140 18 10 38/ 36/ 26 Lump J.Layland 139 103 11 31/ 24/ 44 Der Zweite Blitzkrieg - 9 Mike Nonemacher 138 120 12 39/ 39/ 22 Vanity IIx Stefan Strack 138 113 13 42/ 48/ 10 Rave B4.1 Stefan Strack 137 119 14 32/ 29/ 39 Lucky 13 Stefan Strack 136 164 15 30/ 24/ 46 Blue Funk Steven Morrell 136 12 16 41/ 47/ 13 Squint Mike Nonemacher 135 96 17 31/ 27/ 43 Splash 1 Jay Han 135 123 18 40/ 49/ 11 Plasma v5 Wayne Sheppard 130 60 19 27/ 23/ 50 Insight v1.0 Brant D. Thomsen 130 1 20 31/ 32/ 37 Sasami / 55440 T.Hsu 130 8 Things still appear to be quiet on the Experimental hill. Personally, I expect this hill to really pick up as some of the new programs on the '94 hill start moving over. I have found it especially interesting how differently programs can do between the two hills. For example, my program "Request" does much better on the Experimental hill, while "Insight" does much better on the Standard hill -- both results being exactly the opposite of what I expected! The current ICWS '94 Experimental (Big) hill on "Stormking": # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 48/ 12/ 40 Variation M-1 Jay Han 184 2 2 46/ 30/ 24 Request-55440 Brant D. Thomsen 162 54 3 40/ 20/ 40 Lucky 13 Stefan Strack 161 20 4 46/ 36/ 18 Raiden Richard van der Brug 157 3 5 45/ 35/ 19 Vanity IIx Stefan Strack 155 8 6 35/ 18/ 47 Bakers Dozen Wayne Sheppard 153 13 7 40/ 30/ 31 Sauron v2.4 Michael Constant 150 5 8 30/ 15/ 55 Imperfection v2.3 Michael Constant 146 48 9 36/ 31/ 33 Variation D-1 Jay Han 142 15 10 44/ 47/ 10 Rave B4.1 Stefan Strack 141 9 11 42/ 46/ 12 bigproba nandor sieben 138 12 12 41/ 46/ 14 Dagger v7.0 Michael Constant 136 14 13 40/ 48/ 11 The Count Jay Han 132 44 14 27/ 23/ 50 BigImp Alex MacAulay 132 95 15 30/ 29/ 41 jmpWetPaper-94x-a J.M.Pohjalainen 131 1 16 26/ 23/ 51 BigImps James Layland 129 114 17 31/ 35/ 34 Veeble Jr. T. H. Davies 126 16 18 28/ 37/ 34 Industrious Stefan Strack 119 4 19 29/ 40/ 31 Open Arms Stefan Strack 117 7 20 29/ 41/ 30 Test Stefan Strack 116 6 ______________________________________________________________________________ HINTS and HELPS: When I first put together the program "Insight", there were several things I was thinking about. Perhaps most of all was the thought that if I quickly threw something together I could have have the first program on the '94 draft hill that uses A-field indirection. (I'm still not sure if that is the case.) However, beyond that, I wanted to create a simple program that I could use to discover weaknesses in other's programs. I suppose, in that regard, "Insight" is rather similar to James Layland's DJN stream experiment. (B.T.W. If you want to know why "Insight" and "Stimpy" did so well against the DJN.F program, simply look at the decoy!) The fact that "Insight" is actually managing to stay on the hill is simply a nice bonus. ;redcode-94 ;name Insight v1.0 ;author Brant D. Thomsen ;strategy Stone/imp-spiral ;strategy Uses A-field indirection ;strategy Submitted: @date@ ;assert CORESIZE == 8000 step equ 3039 init equ step+1 gate equ -12 impstep equ 2667 cdist equ CORESIZE / 22 dat.A #1, #1 ; Large decoy to slow DJN streams, dat.A #1, 1 ; while still remaining unique dat.A #1, @1 ; in case of CMP scanners. dat.A #1, <1 . . . dat.BA 1, >1 dat.BA 1, *1 dat.BA 1, {1 dat.BA 1, }1 stone spl #gate,