Issue 72 13 April, 1999
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Core Warrior is a newsletter promoting the game of corewar. Emphasis is placed
on the most active hills - currently the '94 draft hill, the beginner hill and
the '94 no-pspace hill. Coverage will follow where ever the action is. If you
haven't a clue what I'm talking about then check out these five-star internet
locals for more information:
FAQs are available from:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.Z
http://www.koth.org/corewar-faq.html
The ftp site and mirrors are at:
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/corewar
ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/mirror
ftp://www.koth.org/corewar
pMARS itself is also available from:
http://www.koth.org/pmars.html ;Stormking
http://www.ncs.infi.net/~wtnewton/corewar ;Terry's web page
ftp://members.aol.com/ofechner/corewar ;Fechner ftp site
Web pages are at:
http://www.koth.org/ ;Stormking
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth ;Pizza
http://para.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!
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
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Welcome...
There has been very little activity either on the hills or in the newsgroup
since last issue. However, Ian Oversby's tournament has reached a conclusion,
with someone winning a copy of Ian's paper/stone, Recovery. Also, Macrae won
the code for Mini-CLP by solving Kline's Challenge.
This issue, Christian Schmidt shows us how he constructed and optimized three
of his multi-strategy warriors, Digital Dragon, Shadow and Stormbringer :-)
-- John Metcalf
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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
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 44.0/ 31.6/ 24.5 Recycled Bits David Moore 156.4 13
2 37.8/ 25.8/ 36.4 Spooky Wench John Metcalf 149.8 0
3 36.3/ 24.9/ 38.9 Puddleglum John Metcalf 147.7 1
4 41.9/ 37.5/ 20.6 Pattel's Virus Ben Ford 146.4 13
5 35.6/ 25.6/ 38.8 The Stormbringer Christian Schmidt 145.5 13
6 28.1/ 10.9/ 61.0 The Fugitive David Moore 145.2 13
7 35.7/ 27.1/ 37.2 Fixed Ken Espiritu 144.2 13
8 34.9/ 26.6/ 38.4 Shadow Christian Schmidt 143.3 10
9 42.7/ 42.4/ 14.9 Zooom... John Metcalf 143.0 6
10 39.4/ 36.3/ 24.4 BiShot Christian Schmidt 142.5 1
11 39.3/ 40.9/ 19.8 Silver Talon 1.2 Edgar 137.7 14
12 30.3/ 23.1/ 46.6 Even Less Innocuous TeamQ3 137.5 2
13 30.0/ 23.1/ 47.0 Freight Train v0.2 David Moore 136.9 13
14 33.6/ 31.3/ 35.1 Twin Christian Schmidt 135.9 13
15 29.9/ 24.6/ 45.5 Less Innocuous Leonardo Humberto 135.2 3
16 34.2/ 33.8/ 32.1 Digital Dragon Christian Schmidt 134.6 13
17 35.3/ 36.3/ 28.4 trefoil 23 226 Steve Gunnell 134.4 23
18 37.3/ 40.6/ 22.1 Galatea Ben Ford 134.1 13
19 38.9/ 43.9/ 17.2 redcode ragamuffin Simon Wainwright 133.9 4
20 27.0/ 22.2/ 50.7 Innocuous John Metcalf 131.8 11
21 38.0/ 46.2/ 15.8 Have No Pity John Metcalf 129.8 1
22 22.4/ 15.6/ 62.0 ;strategy stone/paper John Metcalf 129.2 5
23 28.2/ 29.1/ 42.7 Quicker Zeta Leonardo Humberto 127.3 8
24 21.5/ 15.7/ 62.8 ( 2 x^2 + 3 x + 1 ) / 2 John Metcalf 127.3 4
25 34.0/ 41.4/ 24.5 trefoil 28 558 Steve Gunnell 126.7 13
Age since last issue: 10 ( 69 last issue, 33 the issue before )
New warriors: 11 Turnover/age rate 110%
Average age: 8 ( 3 last issue, 46 the issue before )
Average score: 138 ( 143 last issue, 140 the issue before )
The top 25 warriors are represented by just 10 independent authors: Metcalf
with 7, Schmidt with 5, Moore with 3, Ford, Gunnell and Humberto with 2 each
and everyone else with just one warrior.
Fixed, Pattel's Virus and Spooky Wench each had a short time as King before
Recycled Bits claimed top spot. Still we have 10 warriors of the same age,
down from 20 last issue.
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94 - What's New (Sorted by rank and score)
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
2 35.3/ 27.0/ 37.7 Spooky Wench John Metcalf 143.5 0
2 33.3/ 25.0/ 41.6 Puddleglum John Metcalf 141.6 0
7 35.7/ 27.8/ 36.6 Shadow Christian Schmidt 143.6 0
7 36.1/ 36.6/ 27.3 BiShot Christian Schmidt 135.6 0
9 26.7/ 17.7/ 55.7 Redemption John Metcalf 135.7 0
11 26.0/ 21.6/ 52.4 Even Less Innocuous TeamQ3 130.4 1
11 25.6/ 20.9/ 53.5 Less Innocuous Leonardo Humberto 130.3 1
17 38.6/ 45.7/ 15.7 Zooom... John Metcalf 131.6 1
18 21.6/ 15.2/ 63.2 ;strategy stone/paper John Metcalf 127.9 1
20 26.9/ 25.9/ 47.2 RabidWeasel 0.5 WFB 127.9 1
20 35.2/ 46.1/ 18.7 myVamp5.6? Paulsson 124.3 0
20 18.2/ 13.8/ 68.0 ( 2 x^2 + 3 x + 1 ) / 2 John Metcalf 122.6 0
20 34.8/ 47.7/ 17.6 Have No Pity John Metcalf 121.8 0
21 27.0/ 27.6/ 45.4 Quicker Zeta Leonardo Humberto 126.4 1
22 36.3/ 52.1/ 11.6 quatrefoil 2 185 Steve Gunnell 120.5 1
25 34.3/ 48.4/ 17.3 redcode ragamuffin Simon Wainwright 120.3 1
Very few new warriors. Shadow and Spooky Wench are updated.
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94 - What's No More (Sorted by age)
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
26 34.4/ 50.9/ 14.7 Silccon M. J. Pihlaja 117.9 22
26 21.6/ 24.7/ 53.6 delay 0.02b 50 bjoern guenzel 118.5 13
26 1.4/ 0.5/ 2.1 The Conqueror Christian Schmidt 6.3 12
26 0.4/ 0.1/ 3.5 Spooky Wench John Metcalf 4.7 9
26 0.6/ 0.8/ 2.6 Fragility John Metcalf 4.4 9
26 35.4/ 50.5/ 14.1 Lost Again! David Moore 120.3 8
26 27.2/ 35.7/ 37.2 Bond, James Bond Ben Ford 118.7 8
26 0.5/ 1.4/ 2.0 Strange Variations John Metcalf 3.7 8
26 33.3/ 48.5/ 18.2 Reconnaissance Ben Ford 118.0 7
26 20.2/ 22.6/ 57.2 RabidWeasel 0.5 WFB 117.9 7
26 32.0/ 46.6/ 21.4 Ice Pick Willie Ben Ford 117.4 6
26 36.8/ 55.0/ 8.2 Boing! John Metcalf 118.7 4
26 2.2/ 0.6/ 1.2 Redemption John Metcalf 7.9 4
26 33.1/ 47.0/ 19.8 myVamp5.6? Paulsson 119.3 3
26 1.4/ 1.4/ 1.3 Shadow Christian Schmidt 5.3 3
26 34.5/ 53.5/ 12.0 quatrefoil 2 185 Steve Gunnell 115.5 2
Lots of ;killing occurred this month...
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94 - What's Old
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
Nothing old yet :-(
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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 Oneshot
8 Evol Cap 6.6 John Wilkinson 1299 Stone/imp
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 Scanner
16 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 925 Bomber
17 Agony II Stefan Strack 912 Scanner
18 Barrage Anton Marsden 876 Qscan -> Paper
19 Blue Funk Steven Morrell 869 Stone/imp
20 Flurry Anton Marsden 835 Qscan -> P-warrior
21 Thermite 1.0 Robert Macrae 802 Qscan -> Bomber
22 Blue Funk 3 Steven Morrell 766 Stone/imp
23 Night Train Karl Lewin 755 Paper
24 Mirage 1.5 Anton Marsden 736 Scanner/bomber
25 Blizzard Anton Marsden 713 Qscan -> Paper
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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 Damage Incorporated Anton Marsden 373 Q^2 -> Bomber
4 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 357 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
5 unrequited love kafka 346 Q^2 -> Paper
6 Impish v0.2 Ian Oversby 345 Stone/imp
7 Gigolo Core Warrior staff 332 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
8 Falcon v0.3 Ian Oversby 275 P-warrior
9 Nine Seven Six M R Bremer 232 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
10 Rosebud Beppe 218 Stone/imp
11 Newt Ian Oversby 216 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
12 Q^2 Miro Anders Ivner 214 Q^2 -> Scanner/bomber
13 Instant Wolf 3.4 Edgar 205 P-warrior
14 Goldfinch P.Kline 201 P-warrior
15 Simple v0.4b Ian Oversby 197 QScan -> Stone/imp
16 Trident^2 John K W 195 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
17 ompega Steven Morrell 189 Stone/imp
18 Frogz Franz 172 Q^2 -> Paper
19 The Machine Anton Marsden 164 Scanner
20 Memories Beppe 152 Scanner
21 Vain Ian Oversby 147 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
22 Head or Tail Christian Schmidt 142 Q^2 -> Paper
23 Electric Head Anton Marsden 140 P-warrior
24 Vigor Ken Espiritu 138 Q^2 -> Paper
25 Fixed Ken Espiritu 135 Q^2 -> Paper
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Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server Beginner 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
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 55.7/ 28.6/ 15.8 Pattel's Virus Ben Ford 182.7 20
2 49.4/ 31.8/ 18.8 Spat the dummy. Steve Gunnell (oh ye 166.9 78
3 47.2/ 38.5/ 14.3 redcode ragamuffin Simon Wainwright 155.9 6
4 32.3/ 16.3/ 51.3 Quicker Zeta Leonardo Humberto 148.3 12
5 39.8/ 32.7/ 27.5 Arsonic C P._V._K. 146.9 95
6 43.8/ 41.1/ 15.2 Fat Man A.S. Mehlos 146.4 92
7 41.5/ 38.8/ 19.7 Sticky taped together 1.2 Steve Gunnell 144.3 89
8 34.9/ 27.2/ 37.9 A man with a Gun Ben Ford 142.7 63
9 29.6/ 17.1/ 53.3 Redemption John Metcalf 142.1 54
10 43.2/ 44.5/ 12.3 fatal lure of pMars Simon Wainwright 142.0 22
11 39.0/ 36.8/ 24.3 No Time To Think A. S. Mehlos 141.2 79
12 30.8/ 21.6/ 47.6 HardCore v0.2b Simon Duff 140.0 18
13 39.5/ 39.3/ 21.2 Fire Master P_.V_.K. 139.7 2
14 32.8/ 26.3/ 40.9 Frusteration II A. S. Mehlos 139.3 82
15 30.4/ 24.1/ 45.4 ModerationRevisited A. S. Mehlos 136.7 98
16 37.2/ 37.9/ 24.9 Red Sand Ken Hubbard 136.6 1
17 32.1/ 30.1/ 37.9 of mirth and merriment Simon Wainwright 134.1 24
18 26.9/ 19.8/ 53.3 Quick Zeta Leonardo Humberto 134.0 17
19 32.9/ 34.9/ 32.2 Ground Zero Ken Hubbard 130.9 5
20 24.4/ 20.2/ 55.4 H-Bomb 9 Josh Yeager 128.6 76
21 24.1/ 20.5/ 55.4 H-Bomb 9k Josh Yeager 127.8 75
22 36.2/ 44.8/ 19.1 Death kiss with a dash of Anders Rosendal 127.6 38
23 27.7/ 29.6/ 42.7 Rocking-Chair 94 v0.33 Leonardo Humberto 125.8 26
24 26.6/ 29.0/ 44.3 SandPaper Leonardo Humberto 124.3 9
25 27.7/ 54.5/ 17.8 v15var 3 257 Steve Gunnell 100.9 3
15 successful challenges since last issue, and only Scanzonato perished of
old age. The top five comprises a good cross-section of strategy: 2 p-space,
a scanner, a paper and a bomber. Beginners might like to try submitting
warriors to one or two of the alternative hills, which are easier to enter
than you may think.
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Current Status of the KOTH.ORG '94 No Pspace 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: 250
instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft, excluding ldp and stp
# %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age
1 43/ 37/ 21 Boys are Back in Town 1.1 Philip Kendall 149 140
2 42/ 39/ 18 Zooom... John Metcalf 145 14
3 26/ 10/ 64 _romanian_killah_ Costin Bontas rulez 142 107
4 33/ 25/ 42 Vain Ian Oversby 141 215
5 25/ 10/ 65 The Fugitive David Moore 141 217
6 35/ 30/ 35 Fixed Ken Espiritu 140 198
7 34/ 28/ 38 The Stormbringer Christian Schmidt 140 149
8 33/ 25/ 42 Recovery Ian Oversby 140 138
9 34/ 28/ 39 Blacken Ian Oversby 139 125
10 37/ 35/ 29 BiShot v1.0 Christian Schmidt 139 47
11 34/ 30/ 37 Spooky Wench John Metcalf 137 2
12 33/ 29/ 38 Baseline Plus Ken Espiritu 137 196
13 41/ 44/ 15 Win! David Moore 137 113
14 29/ 23/ 47 Even Less Innocuous TeamQ3 136 6
15 30/ 25/ 46 Brigadeer M Joonas Pihlaja 135 134
16 32/ 31/ 37 Puddleglum John Metcalf 134 1
17 34/ 34/ 31 Liquid Fire Christian Schmidt 134 111
18 34/ 34/ 32 qTest P.Kline 134 37
19 33/ 34/ 32 Digital Dragon Christian Schmidt 132 16
20 27/ 22/ 52 ELI-8 John Metcalf 131 17
The no-pspace hill has aged by 40 successful challenges this month, with
scanners now ruling the hill once again. Gemini Dream left the hill aged
182 and Fugitive becomes the oldest warrior. Centenarians Head or Tail,
Floody River and Red Carpet also departed. 16 of the 20 warriors on this
hill use some form of Qscan.
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Current Standings of the Oversby Autumn Corewar Tournament:
: '94 Tiny Grey Build Multi Primo rDist c8001 : Total
1 Pihlaja : 98.66 100.00 100.00 x 84.82 87.48 x 100.00 : 570.80
2 Schmidt : 99.46 70.55 75.41 77.34 50.26 100.00 92.84 x : 515.02
3 Macrae : 87.63 69.55 74.28 100.00 74.87 95.32 54.47 81.59 : 513.69
4 WFB : 91.10 22.42 49.35 56.28 100.00 56.47 x 95.31 : 473.57
5 Khuong : 75.82 60.37 65.86 63.96 x x 42.71 15.56 : 323.47
6 Gunnell : 72.82 46.50 19.46 x 47.12 87.95 x x : 270.06
7 Mehlos : 71.22 29.45 76.11 76.23 x x x x : 252.99
8 Hale : 99.12 66.52 18.68 60.92 x x x x : 245.24
9 Moore :100.00 63.67 62.29 x x x x x : 225.97
10 Yeager : x 24.93 44.22 60.03 34.55 x x x : 163.73
11 Metcalf : x x x x x 39.96 100.00 x : 139.96
12 Kendall : 90.04 35.48 3.21 x x x x x : 128.27
13 Ford : x x x x x x x 70.92 : 70.92
14 Duff : 23.05 30.67 10.51 x x x x x : 63.57
Pihlaja wins the final round with Give it a Proper Name, and wins the
tournament with 570 points out of a possible 600. Ford shows it is never
too late to participate in these events...
Code for all warriors is now available from the tournament's homepage at:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/2443/
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The Hint -
Optimizing Process Allocation in Parallel-Running Strategies
by Christian Schmidt
In this month's hint I would like to present a little known method to
optimize warriors with two parallel-running strategies. For example,
stone/papers, stone/imps and clear/imps. Everyone who has tried to
build a stone/imp knows that one of the most important decisions is how
long the spiral should be allowed to grow. With weak imps the fast
running stone will easily beat a scanner, but will lose badly against an
agressive paper. With strong imps the warrior will tie against paper,
but due to the slowed down stone it loses against anti-imp scanners.
A good stone/imp is somewhere between these extremes. The most common
ways to keep control over the time the imp spiral grows are:
a) the use of a fixed number of processes for the imp, as would be
created by a jmp/add, vector or binary launcher,
b) to kill a continuous-imp launcher with a dat-bomb from the stone at a
fixed time,
c) to delay the start of a continuous-imp launcher until a self-
splitting stone has build up enough processes.
In all three methods the goal is to slow down and weaken the imp, so the
stone runs faster. However, there is another possiblility. Instead of
slowing down the imp, speed up the stone. Accelerate the stone by
launching multiple processes into it.
As far as I know the first example of this technique involved in a
stone/imp was Alien and in a clear/imp Justin Kao's Dust 0.7 and later
Digitalis. In all cases the add/jmp-launcher starts both, the imp and
the stone (Alien) or the d-clear (Dust, Digitalis). To introduce the
faster and smaller continuous-imp launcher into this warriors the stone
(or clear) must now launch separatly. Instead of a:
jmp stone ;----> 1 process for the stone
it could be used for example:
spl stone
jmp stone ;----> 2 processes for the stone
or maybe:
spl 2
spl stone
jmp stone ;----> 3 processes for the stone
Every combination is possible. One advatage is the relatively easy
optimization of the ratio of processes in the stone and imp. An
additional acceleration of the stone is possible by using a spl #0
instruction in front of it. This helps gain a lot of extra points...
All of the discussed improvements are used for The Stormbringer, where
the stone is Carbonite. The big advantage against other stone/imps is,
that it is very small and extremly fast. The only disadvantage is that
there is no real core-clear at the end of the bombing phase.
;redcode-94
;name The Stormbringer
;author Christian Schmidt
;strategy q^2 -> stone/imp
;assert 1
org start
QS EQU (0-200)
QD EQU (0+100)
QB EQU (start-350)
CR EQU (fnd-which)
datz EQU (table-3)
GAP equ 8
REP equ 15
cBptr equ 3001-2
impoff equ 627
impsize equ 2667
qinc dat >(-1)*GAP*2, >GAP
dat 9*QS, 1*QS
table: dat 5*QS, 2*QS
dat 13*QS, 17*QS
P: add.f table,table
slow: add.ab *P,fnd
fast: add.b @P,@-1
which: sne.i datz,@fnd
add.ab #QD,fnd
add.ba fnd, fnd
qbo mov.i qinc, @fnd
mov.i qinc, *fnd
fnd mov.i (-1)*(GAP/2),@QB
sub.x qinc, fnd
djn.b qbo, #REP
jmp cBoot, }-300
start:
seq.i QB+QS*0,QB+QS*0+QD
jmp which, 0
seq.i QB+QS*2,QB+QS*2+QD
jmp fast, 0
seq.i QB+QS*1,QB+QS*1+QD
jmp fast, <P
seq.i QB+QS*17,QB+QS*17+QD
jmp fast, >P
seq.i QB+QS*7,QB+QS*7+QD
jmp slow, 0
seq.i QB+QS*6,QB+QS*6+QD
jmp slow, <P
seq.i QB+QS*22,QB+QS*22+QD
jmp slow, >P
seq.i QB+QS*11,QB+QS*11+QD
jmp slow, {P
seq.i QB+QS*15,QB+QS*15+QD
jmp slow, }P
seq.i QB+QS*10,QB+QS*10+QD
djn.f slow, P
seq.i QB+QS*5,QB+QS*5+QD
jmp >fast, 0
seq.i QB+QS*9,QB+QS*9+QD
jmp >fast, {P
seq.i QB+QS*13,QB+QS*13+QD
jmp >fast, }P
seq.i QB+QS*14,QB+QS*14+QD
jmp P, 0
seq.i QB+QS*8,QB+QS*8+QD
jmp P, <P
seq.i QB+QS*12,QB+QS*12+QD
jmp P, {P
seq.i QB+QS*32,QB+QS*32+QD
jmp P, }P
seq.i QB+QS*20,QB+QS*20+QD
djn.f P, P
seq.i QB+QS*4,QB+QS*4+QD
jmp }slow, 0
seq.i QB+QS*3,QB+QS*3+QD
jmp }slow, {P
seq.i QB+QS*19,QB+QS*19+QD
jmp }slow, }P
seq.i QB+QS*18,QB+QS*18+QD
djn.f <fast, P
seq.i QB+QS*36+CR,QB+QS*36+QD+CR
jmp }fast, 0
cBoot spl pump ;split to the imp launcher
mov cBomb, cSp+cBptr+198
mov cSp-1, cSp+cBptr-1
mov cSp, cSp+cBptr
mov cSp+1, cSp+cBptr+1
mov cSp+2, cSp+cBptr+2
mov cSp+3, cSp+cBptr+3
spl cSp2+cBptr, {0 ;
spl cSp2+cBptr, {0 ;
jmp cSp2+cBptr, {0 ;--->3 processes for the stone
cSp2 spl #0, #0 ;---> extra boost for the stone
cSp spl #0, <-1151+3
mov 197, cAd-(197*3500)
cAd add.ab {0, }0
djn.f -2, <-1151
cBomb dat >-1, >1
for 19-2
dat 0, 0
rof
pump spl #1, >prime
prime mov.i imp, impoff-4
add.f #impsize+1, ptr
ptr jmp pump+impoff-(impsize+1), >-200
imp mov.i #impsize, *0
Using exactly the same method I created Digital Dragon (everybody will
see the similarity to The Stormbringer ;-) with a d-clear. But instead
of the 3pt imps I used here 13pt imp. I've used this because it gave
the best results on the hill. Though it isn't as lethal as Digitalis 4,
it loses much less against q^2 -> papers due to it's smaller size and
faster launching.
;redcode-94
;name Digital Dragon
;author Christian Schmidt
;strategy q^2 -> d-clear + 13pt imps
;assert 1
org start
QS EQU (0-200)
QD EQU 100
QB EQU (start-350)
CR EQU (fnd-which)
datz EQU (table-3)
GAP equ 8
REP equ 15
impoff equ 627+200
impsize equ 5091
bptr1 equ 1800
qinc dat >(-1)*GAP*2, >GAP
dat 9*QS, 1*QS
table: dat 5*QS, 2*QS
dat 13*QS, 17*QS
P: add.f table,table
slow: add.ab *P,fnd
fast: add.b @P,@-1
which: sne.i datz,@fnd
add.ab #QD,fnd
add.ba fnd, fnd
qbo mov.i qinc, @fnd
mov.i qinc, *fnd
fnd mov.i (-1)*(GAP/2),@QB
sub.x qinc, fnd
djn.b qbo, #REP
jmp boot, }-300
start:
seq.i QB+QS*0,QB+QS*0+QD
jmp which, 0 ; 0
seq.i QB+QS*2,QB+QS*2+QD
jmp fast, 0 ; E
seq.i QB+QS*1,QB+QS*1+QD
jmp fast, <P ; D
seq.i QB+QS*17,QB+QS*17+QD
jmp fast, >P ; F
seq.i QB+QS*7,QB+QS*7+QD
jmp slow, 0 ; BE
seq.i QB+QS*6,QB+QS*6+QD
jmp slow, <P ; BD
seq.i QB+QS*22,QB+QS*22+QD
jmp slow, >P ; BF
seq.i QB+QS*11,QB+QS*11+QD
jmp slow, {P ; AE
seq.i QB+QS*15,QB+QS*15+QD
jmp slow, }P ; CE
seq.i QB+QS*10,QB+QS*10+QD
djn.f slow, P ; AD
seq.i QB+QS*5,QB+QS*5+QD
jmp >fast, 0 ; B
seq.i QB+QS*9,QB+QS*9+QD
jmp >fast, {P ; A
seq.i QB+QS*13,QB+QS*13+QD
jmp >fast, }P ; C
seq.i QB+QS*14,QB+QS*14+QD
jmp P, 0 ; BBEE
seq.i QB+QS*8,QB+QS*8+QD
jmp P, <P ; BDE
seq.i QB+QS*12,QB+QS*12+QD
jmp P, {P ; ADE
seq.i QB+QS*32,QB+QS*32+QD
jmp P, }P ; CEF
seq.i QB+QS*20,QB+QS*20+QD
djn.f P, P ; AADD
seq.i QB+QS*4,QB+QS*4+QD
jmp }slow, 0 ; EE
seq.i QB+QS*3,QB+QS*3+QD
jmp }slow, {P ; DE
seq.i QB+QS*19,QB+QS*19+QD
jmp }slow, }P ; FE
seq.i QB+QS*18,QB+QS*18+QD
djn.f <fast, P ; AA
seq.i QB+QS*36+CR,QB+QS*36+QD+CR
jmp }fast, 0 ; BBBBG
boot spl pump, <-1000 ;split to the imp launcher
mov ptr, bptr1
mov clrb, bptr1
boot2 mov {bptr3, <bptr3
mov {bptr3, <bptr3
mov {bptr3, <bptr3
spl 1 ;\
spl @bptr3, <-1001 ;/
spl @bptr3, <-1000 ;\
jmp @bptr3, <-1000 ; --> 6 processes for the d-clear
ptr dat 0, 2150
clrb dat >2667, 25
clear spl #0, >ptr-16
loop mov clrb-16, >ptr-16
cc djn.f loop, >ptr-16
bptr3 dat cc+1, boot2+bptr1+19
for 19-2
dat 0, 0
rof
pump spl #1, >prime
prime mov.i imp, impoff-4
add.f #impsize+1, iptr
iptr jmp pump+impoff-(impsize+1), >-200
imp mov.i #impsize, *0
Finally, with this method it is now also possible to combine a stone
with a paper, in such a way, the stone dominates in the beginning until
the paper becomes dominant. The first task is to find a 'pocket' for
the stone, where it survives the paper until close to the end of the
battle. To do this, run the paper alone and seach core to find the
location of pockets of initial core. Now you must check in which of the
pocket the stone will gain the most points, and what ratio of processes
the stone needs. I found that the easiest way is to launch the stone is
with the paper launcher. For Shadow I've used Paul Kline's RetinA,
which gave by far the best results. Shape used for example my paper
from Head or Tail.
;redcode-94
;name Shadow
;author Christian Schmidt
;strategy q^2 -> stone/paper
;strategy v3 modified stone, now faster
;strategy v3.1 better pocket for the stone
;assert 1
org start
QS equ (0-200)
QD equ 100
QB equ (start-350)
CR equ (fnd-which)
datz equ (table-3)
GAP equ 8
REP equ 15
cBptr equ (1724-66);973
spcsz equ 2381;2382
impsz equ (127*37) ;2794
qinc dat >(-1)*GAP*2, >GAP
dat 9*QS, 1*QS
table: dat 5*QS, 2*QS
dat 13*QS, 17*QS
P: add.f table, table
slow: add.ab *P, fnd
fast: add.b @P, @-1
which: sne.i datz, @fnd
add.ab #QD, fnd
add.ba fnd, fnd
qbo mov.i qinc, @fnd
mov.i qinc, *fnd
fnd mov.i (-1)*(GAP/2),@QB
sub.x qinc, fnd
djn.b qbo, #REP
jmp cBoot, }-300
start:
seq.i QB+QS*0,QB+QS*0+QD
jmp which, 0
seq.i QB+QS*2,QB+QS*2+QD
jmp fast, 0
seq.i QB+QS*1,QB+QS*1+QD
jmp fast, <P
seq.i QB+QS*17,QB+QS*17+QD
jmp fast, >P
seq.i QB+QS*7,QB+QS*7+QD
jmp slow, 0
seq.i QB+QS*6,QB+QS*6+QD
jmp slow, <P
seq.i QB+QS*22,QB+QS*22+QD
jmp slow, >P
seq.i QB+QS*11,QB+QS*11+QD
jmp slow, {P
seq.i QB+QS*15,QB+QS*15+QD
jmp slow, }P
seq.i QB+QS*10,QB+QS*10+QD
djn.f slow, P
seq.i QB+QS*5,QB+QS*5+QD
jmp >fast, 0
seq.i QB+QS*9,QB+QS*9+QD
jmp >fast, {P
seq.i QB+QS*13,QB+QS*13+QD
jmp >fast, }P
seq.i QB+QS*14,QB+QS*14+QD
jmp P, 0
seq.i QB+QS*8,QB+QS*8+QD
jmp P, <P
seq.i QB+QS*12,QB+QS*12+QD
jmp P, {P
seq.i QB+QS*32,QB+QS*32+QD
jmp P, }P
seq.i QB+QS*20,QB+QS*20+QD
djn.f P, P
seq.i QB+QS*4,QB+QS*4+QD
jmp }slow, 0
seq.i QB+QS*3,QB+QS*3+QD
jmp }slow, {P
seq.i QB+QS*19,QB+QS*19+QD
jmp }slow, }P
seq.i QB+QS*18,QB+QS*18+QD
djn.f <fast, P
seq.i QB+QS*36+CR,QB+QS*36+QD+CR
jmp }fast, 0
cBoot spl rStart, <-1000 ;strat the paper
mov cBomb, rCell1+cBptr+198
mov cSp-1, rCell1+cBptr-1
mov cSp, rCell1+cBptr
mov cSp+1, rCell1+cBptr+1
mov cSp+2, rCell1+cBptr+2
mov cSp+3, rCell1+cBptr+3
jmp rCell1+cBptr-1, <-400 ;----> 1 process for the stone
cSp2 spl #0, #0
cSp spl #0, <-1151+3
mov 197, cAd-(197*3500)
cAd add.ab {0, }0
djn.f -2, <-1151
cBomb dat >-1, >1
rStart spl 2, <400
spl 1, <400
spl 1, <400
cStart spl rCell1+cBptr-1, <402 ;---> 6 processes for the stone
rCell1 spl @0, spcsz
mov }rCell1, >rCell1
rCell2 spl @0, impsz
mov }rCell2, >rCell2
spl rCell2, {rCell2
mov.i #2*spcsz, }-spcsz*1
mov.i #2*spcsz, }-spcsz*1
mov.i #2*impsz, }-impsz*1
I hope I have been able to show some new aspects of these interesting
strategies.
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Questions? Concerns? Comments? Complaints? Mail them to people who care.
Authors: Beppe Bezzi <giuseppe.bezzi@galactica.it>, Anton Marsden
<amarsden@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>, Philip Kendall <pak21@cam.ac.uk> and John Metcalf
<grumpy@digitald.uk.com>
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