Issue 87 03 July, 2003
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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 no-pspace and '94 draft
hills. Coverage will follow wherever 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:
http://www.koth.org/corewar-faq.html
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.html
Web pages are at:
http://www.koth.org/ ;KOTH
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth ;Pizza (down)
http://para.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar ;Planar
http://www.ociw.edu/~birk/corewar ;C.Birk
http://de.geocities.com/fizmo_master ;Fizmo
Newbies should check the above pages for the FAQs, language specification,
guides, and tutorials. Post questions to rec.games.corewar. All new players
are infinitely welcome!
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Greetings...
There has been an abundance of interesting code published since last issue,
not least Sunset and Mantrap Arcade. These two p-warriors are holding the
first two ranks on Koth's draft hill as well as the Koenigstuhl P-Space
and Open hills. Three new warriors enter the top 10 on the infinite '94nop
hill, Numb, RotPendragon 2 and Candy II.
Chip Wendell has released a feature-packed new Mars for Windows, boasting
such facilities as read/write limits and random core size. If you haven't
done so already, drop into the homepage and download a copy:
http://www.geocities.com/corewin2
Rounds 9 and 10 of the ongoing tournament have taken place, with the
Limited Value round being won by Jakub Kozisek, and the Tri-Tiny round
by Dave Hillis. German Labarga takes first place, climbing 4, followed
by Roy van Rijn who remains in second place.
Koen Struyve has organised the Corewars Beginner's League, a regular
tournament specifically for beginners. For more info see:
http://www25.brinkster.com/ivaldir
Thanks this issue to Christian Schmidt, who discusses Quick-Scanners and
Paper in the hint, as well as sharing the code for unheard-of.
-- John Metcalf
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Current Status of the KOTH.ORG '94 No Pspace Hill:
# %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age
1 36/ 22/ 42 Reepicheep Grabun/Metcalf 149.1 974
2 44/ 40/ 16 Toxic Spirit Philip Thorne 147.9 428
3 47/ 47/ 6 Recon 2 David Moore 147.3 197
4 36/ 25/ 39 Thunderstrike Lukasz Grabun 146.1 348
5 35/ 25/ 41 Numb Roy van Rijn 144.7 130
6 42/ 41/ 16 Return of Vanquisher Lukasz Grabun 143.4 505
7 33/ 23/ 44 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 143.0 1743
8 28/ 14/ 58 unheard-of Christian Schmidt 142.7 74
9 33/ 25/ 43 Candy II Lukasz Grabun 141.1 123
10 32/ 24/ 44 Soldier of Silkland Christian Schmidt 140.3 100
11 34/ 27/ 39 Now you're in trouble!!! John Metcalf 140.3 111
12 45/ 50/ 5 Claw 2 Fizmo 139.2 172
13 34/ 30/ 36 Digitalis 2003 Christian Schmidt 139.1 25
14 42/ 44/ 14 Hazy Test 63 Steve Gunnell 138.5 518
15 33/ 27/ 41 Graduated Fool Roy van Rijn 138.3 9
16 40/ 41/ 20 shot John Metcalf 138.1 28
17 28/ 21/ 51 Greetings from Turkey Fizmo 136.3 15
18 43/ 51/ 6 Solo 2 Roy van Rijn 135.2 3
19 31/ 30/ 39 Paper LG 133.1 2
20 5/ 0/ 0 Fast Action IV Christian Schmidt 14.3 1
Since last issue, there have been 192 successful challenges and 10 warriors
have passed on, aged 100+. Revenge of the Papers left the hill age 605.
Also leaving the hill this issue were Firestorm (age 589), Claw (525),
Dawn (350), Pixie (282), Driftwood (250), RotPendragon 2 (183), My First
Paper (168), Back To PolyLand (165) and Harmony Snoot (131).
Koth report: Most often seen at the top of the hill has been Recon 2,
king after 162 successful challenges. Reepicheep took first place after
12 challenges, and Thunderstrike after 10. Son of Vain briefly took the
number one spot to once again break it's own record for the oldest KotH!
The oldest warriors ever to be seen in first place have been:
# Name Author Age
1 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 1667
2 Reepicheep Grabun/Metcalf 974
3 nPaper II Paul-V Khuong 925
4 Quicksilver Michal Janeczek 759
5 Behemot Michal Janeczek 689
6 Jinx Christian Schmidt 533
7 Inky Ian Oversby 492
8 Eraser II Ken Espiritu 463
9 Blade Fizmo 450
10 Toxic Spirit Philip Thorne 424
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The '94 No Pspace Hall of Fame: * indicates the warrior is still active.
Pos Name Author Age Strategy
1 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 1743 * Q^4 -> Stone/imp
2 Blacken Ian Oversby 1363 Q^2 -> Stone/imp
3 nPaper II Paul-V Khuong 1270 MiniQ^3 -> Paper
4 Uninvited John Metcalf 1130 MiniQ^3 -> Stone/imp
5 Behemot Michal Janeczek 1078 MiniQ^3 -> Bomber
6 Reepicheep Grabun/Metcalf 974 * Q^4 -> Paper/stone
7 Olivia Ben Ford 886 Q^4 -> Stone/imp
8 Keyser Soze Anton Marsden 823 Qscan -> Bomber/paper/imp
9 Quicksilver Michal Janeczek 789 Q^4 -> Stone/imp
10 Eraser II Ken Espiritu 781 Scanner
11 Inky Ian Oversby 736 Q^4 -> Paper/stone
12 Jinx Christian Schmidt 662 Q^3 -> Scanner
13 Blade Fizmo 643 Qscan -> Scanner
14 Revenge of the Papers Fizmo+Roy 605 Q^4 -> Paper
15 Jade Ben Ford 600 Q^4 -> Stone/imp
16 Firestorm John Metcalf 589 MiniQ^3 -> Paper/imp
17 Claw Fizmo 525 Qscan -> Scanner
18 Hazy Test 63 Steve Gunnell 518 * Scanner
19 Return of Vanquisher Lukasz Grabun 505 * Q^4 -> Bomber
20 G3-b David Moore 503 Twoshot
21 Vanquisher Lukasz Grabun 469 Q^4 -> Bomber
22 Revival Fire P.Kline 468 Bomber
23 The Phantom Menace Anton Marsden 465 Qscan -> Paper/imp
24 The Stormkeeper Christian Schmidt 460 Q^3 -> Stone/imp
25 Positive Knife Ken Espiritu 449 Q^4 -> Stone/imp
Three warrior give up the eternal climb, while two others achieve new
heights within the top 25. As always Son of Vain leads the HoF. Next
in will be Toxic Spirit, being just 25 challenges away...
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Current Status of the KOTH.ORG '94 Draft Hill:
# %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age
1 45/ 36/ 19 Sunset David Moore 154.5 50
2 41/ 34/ 25 Mantrap Arcade Dave Hillis 147.9 119
3 33/ 21/ 46 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 145.3 292
4 46/ 47/ 7 Recon 2 David Moore 144.9 73
5 33/ 24/ 44 Bitter Sweet Lukasz Grabun 142.2 114
6 33/ 24/ 43 Numb Roy van Rijn 141.3 49
7 41/ 41/ 18 Bustling Spirit Christian Schmidt 140.7 162
8 40/ 40/ 20 Return of Vanquisher PsP Lukasz Grabun 139.6 132
9 39/ 38/ 23 Ordinary John Metcalf 139.5 5
10 40/ 40/ 20 Bubbly Creek Philip Thorne 139.5 2
11 41/ 42/ 17 Creeping Death Christian Schmidt 139.1 14
12 26/ 14/ 60 unheard-of Christian Schmidt 138.2 7
13 32/ 27/ 41 Reepicheep Grabun/Metcalf 138.0 321
14 31/ 24/ 46 PolyPap Jakub Kozisek 137.6 80
15 28/ 19/ 53 RotPendragon 2 Christian Schmidt 137.6 58
16 40/ 44/ 16 Herbal Avenger Michal Janeczek 136.8 204
17 31/ 26/ 43 Paper party G.Labarga 135.5 10
18 28/ 20/ 52 Dawn Roy van Rijn 135.1 99
19 31/ 28/ 41 test Roy van Rijn 134.3 1
20 28/ 23/ 49 V Christian Schmidt 133.6 79
61 successful challenges have passed since last issue. Mantrap Arcade held
the top of the hill for 7 challenges, before Sunset appeared. David Moore's
p-switcher claimed first place on arrival, and hasn't once dropped below,
being at the top for all 50 challenges. CrazyShot 2 perished (age 249), as
did Blowrag (192), Incredible! (180) and Microvenator (122).
Sunset has an impressive average score of 154.02, with individual scores
ranging from 147 to 165. It has held, at the very least, a 3 point lead
over second place and switches between a scanner with anti-imp scan-step
and a paper/stone. With the code published however, how long will Sunset
remain King?
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The '94 Draft Hall of Fame: * indicates the warrior is still active.
Pos Name Author Age Strategy
1 Reepicheep Grabun/Metcalf 321 * Q^4 -> Paper/stone
2 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 292 * Q^4 -> Stone/imp
3 CrazyShot 2 Christian Schmidt 249 Q^4 -> Oneshot
4 Herbal Avenger Michal Janeczek 204 * Scanner
= Revenge of the Papers Fizmo/Roy 204 Q^4 -> Paper
6 Uninvited John Metcalf 194 MiniQ^3 -> Stone/imp
7 Blowrag Metcalf/Schmidt 192 Q^4 -> Paper/imp
8 Incredible! John Metcalf 180 Paper/imp
9 Wallpaper Christian Schmidt 175 Q^4 -> Paper/stone
10 Bustling Spirit Christian Schmidt 162 * P-warrior
11 Joyful Maw Dave Hillis 143 P-warrior
12 Paperazor Christian Schmidt 141 Paper
13 Return of Vanquisher Lukasz Grabun 132 * Q^4 -> Bomber
= Self-Modifying Code Ben Ford 132 P-warrior
15 Combatra David Moore 131 Boot distance calculator
16 Mad Christian Schmidt 123 P-warrior
17 Microvenator Michal Janeczek 122 P-warrior
18 Mantrap Arcade Dave Hillis 119 * P-warrior
19 Cyanide Excuse Dave Hillis 117 P-warrior
20 Bitter Sweet Lukasz Grabun 114 * Q^4 -> Stone/imp
21 Shapeshifter Michal Janeczek 107 P-warrior
22 Dawn Roy van Rijn 99 * Q^4 -> Paper/imp
23 Help...I'm Scared Roy van Rijn 98 Oneshot
= Dark Lowlands Roy van Rijn 98 *Unknown*
25 Dry Ice Ben Ford 92 P-warrior
CrazyShot 2 ends it's days age 249, and loses its number 2 spot to SoV.
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Summary of IRC Speed Redcoding Challenge Results:
# ORGANISER FIRST PLACE CORE DETAILS
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1 John Metcalf Christian Schmidt 80 nano core
2 Philip Thorne Roy van Rijn 800 values of -1 & 1 forbidden
3 Roy van Rijn Philip Thorne 8000 only values -1, 0 & 1 allowed
4 Mizcu Thorne/Kozisek 20 super-tiny core
5 Christian Schmidt Jakub Kozisek 800 modes { } < > forbidden
6 Paul V-Khuong Christian Schmidt 211 sub-sequence of opcodes
7 Sascha Zapf John Metcalf 800 SPL / JMP restrictions
8 Roy van Rijn John Metcalf 800 reversible warriors!
9 John Metcalf Christian Schmidt 2520 3-way, only modes { } < >
10 Christian Schmidt John Metcalf 800 .i & # forbidden
11 Lukasz Grabun John Metcalf 8192 restricted '88 rules
12 Philip Thorne Roy van Rijn 8000 grey warrior
13 John Metcalf Lukasz Adamowski 2520 multi-warrior limited process
14 Christian Schmidt John Metcalf 800 SNE / SEQ / CMP forbidden
15 Lukasz Grabun John Metcalf 8000 white warrior
16 Roy van Rijn John Metcalf 800 p-space supplied components
17 John Metcalf Mizcu/Thorne 2520 team-play
18 Philip Thorne Roy van Rijn 8000 3-way white+grey warrior
Every Sunday at 7:00pm (GMT) Corewar folk from here, there and everywhere
gather in #COREWARS on IRC.KOTH.ORG to chat about all things Corewar. With
so many Redcoders together at once, it was only a matter of time before
they wished to compare their Redcoding skills - the 30 minute tournament
was born.
Typically participants have to create a competitive warrior for an unusual
environment, or using a tricky subset of Redcode, with less time available
than most players take to select a name or tweak the boot distance! An
average of 7 Redcoders play each week with the record to date being 12.
For more info on the individual rounds, you can find the results at:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/corewar/corewar
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The Hint - Paper and Quick-Scanner by Christian Schmidt
If you're working on a successful paper, usually you will test/benchmark
your idea against scanners and oneshots to be sure the constants are well
chosen. If you have finalized your paper, don't sit back and relax,
because that's not all that can be done!!!
This article focuses on the use of an additional quick-scanner beside the
paper. "Well, I know" one could say, "nobody would write a paper without a
quick-scanner". But nothing is published so far about the influence in
scoring if it is used.
Some of the advantages are evident. The paper will gain some more wins
even if it battles against another paper (which usually ends close to 100%
ties). Also, keep in mind modern quick-scanning warriors win about 10-15%
of the battle (if fighting against another quick-scanning warrior) only
with their quick-scanning part.
But how is the situation against a scanner? Usually they don't use a
quick-scanner. One effect should be that the quickscanner part acts
additionally as a decoy which should be good against scanner. But how
strong is the influence in reality? To answer this question, I decided to
have a closer look, focusing on a variety of different papers and scanners.
The aspect we want to figure out first is: How much influence a decoy has
on the scoring of a paper against scanner. Usually they should score
slightly better, because the scanner will be entraped to wipe the "useless"
decoy and give the paper a bit more time for a lucky hit or to gain enough
processes to survive.
The test warriors looks like:
;code of the paper is here (copy'n'pasted from the original source. Also
includes the original bootstrapping)
Decoy equ length
for (85-Decoy)
dat 0, 0
rof
i for Decoy
dat <i, >-i
rof
end
The following scanner were used for the test: Claw, Herbal Avenger,
myBlur2, Stalker, Win!, Willow, Zoom, Origin of Storm.
And here are the scoring for eight different papers, having various length
decoys:
BR: Benji's Revenge; D: Disincentive; F: Fixed; nP: nPaper II;
RP: Paper of Reepicheep; RoP: Revenge of the Papers
MJ: Mini Return of the Jedimp; RF: Return of Fugitive
Decoy
length BR D F nP RP RoP MJ RF
---------------------------------------------------------------------
0 126,0 141,6 148,9 133,5 152,6 120,9 123,1 146,3
10 125,4 142,9 146,9 134,8 152,0 123,6 125,6 147,9
20 123,4 143,5 148,8 131,3 152,1 123,1 124,6 148,9
30 126,2 145,3 149,7 132,2 153,4 123,9 125,7 149,3
40 128,3 147,9 149,8 135,9 151,9 126,4 124,7 152,5
50 126,3 146,1 150,7 138,0 152,8 125,8 124,7 152,4
60 123,9 145,2 149,1 136,6 151,0 126,2 124,7 153,1
70 128,8 143,1 148,5 137,6 153,7 126,4 126,5 154,1
80 128,1 143,2 149,8 138,9 151,8 127,2 128,0 154,1
highest
increase 2,8 6,3 1,8 5,4 1,1 6,3 4,9 7,8
The results weren't very surprising. All paper gain a few points by having
a decoy. Interesting is the inconsistency of the points increase depending
on the length of the decoy for the different papers. If we look to the
average scores for the length of the decoy we can see more clearly that the
optimal decoy should have a length of at least 30 instructions. The Q^3
should fit this length while the mini Q^4 is a bit too small to act
sucessfully as a decoy.
length Average incr.
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0 136,6 0,0
10 137,4 0,8
20 137,0 0,4 \-> mini Q^4
30 138,2 1,6 /
40 139,7 3,1 --> Q^3
50 139,6 3,0
60 138,7 2,1 --> Q^2
70 139,8 3,2
80 140,1 3,5
Now let's have a look how well the quick-scanners alone scores against the
scanners. Both quick-scanners start at the end of the scanning phase a djn
0, #200. The quick-scanner will die after 200 additional cycles to be sure
all kills due the bombing are recorded. The results shows as expected,
that the Q^3 scores much better than the mini Q^4.
qscanner length pts. +decoy
-------------------------------------
Q^3 42 15,6 18,7
mQ^4 26 10,4 12,0
If we now use both quick-scanners together with the paper we get the
following results:
length BR D F nP RP RoP MJ RF
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Q^3 136,3 153,5 158,8 142,0 161,1 140,7 136,3 162,2
mQ^4 129,4 148,1 156,6 135,4 156,8 136,9 129,9 154,6
The points increase compared to the pure paper are shown below:
Q^3 10,3 11,9 9,9 8,5 8,5 19,8 13,1 15,9
mQ^4 3,4 6,5 7,6 1,9 4,1 16,1 6,8 8,4
Well, that's what we've expected after the tests with the quick-scanner.
The reason why the points increase isn't as high as expected from the tests
above can be explained with the delayed launching of the paper, because the
quick-scanner will executed first. Interesting is the behaviour of
Revenge of the Paper, because it scores with both quick-scanners much
better than expected. The reason seem to be that it only launches the two
copies of itself and don't use the code in front of the quick-scanner.
Finally we can say that a Q^3 quickscanner is the better choice if the
opponent is a scanner. Against other strategies it can respond
differently. But this can be discussed as well as the influence of booting
in a further article.
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Extra Extra - unheard-of by Christian Schmidt
The last few months I have been engaged in improving papers carrying a
stone in their main body. However, most of the ideas (including that one
already shown in the corewar lexicon) weren't effective enough against
modern scanner and oneshots. The reason seemed to be mainly a
disadvantageous process allocation between self-replication and bombing.
The bombing run was way too slow to trouble scanners. Therefore the first
and most important step in developing a successful "silk-stone" would be
finding a good process allocation.
My first idea was the use of an evolved-style paper. It starts the self-
replication using a spl 0 instruction. I thought this should push enough
processes into the stone. But all my attempts were unsuccessful. So, I
stopped this path and tried something much more simple.
I remembered "Minireturn of the Jedimp" with its bombing imp-launcher which
uses a spl #something right behind the spl/mov-silk. Well, why not simply
add a dwarf right behind the spl/mov-silk. It should act like a pure stone
with a steady deceleration of the self-replication.
So, I decided to use a 4-line stone with good bombing/corecolouring and
just
one constant, for ease of optimization. Then I added a silk-pair in front
of it and voila, my first "silk-dwarf" was born:
spl 2
spl 1
spl 1
silk1 spl @0, <pStep
mov.i }-1, >-1
spl #sStep, >-sStep
mov {sStep, {-sStep+1
add -2, -1
djn.f @0, {-2
I have tested in the meantime several other types of stone, including
Carbonite-style stones, and I found that the above mentioned one is by far
the best.
Finally I added after optimizing pStep and sStep a quickscanner and named
it He Bombs Alone:
;redcode-94nop
;name He Bombs Alone
;author Christian Schmidt
;strategy ****************
;strategy * - quickscan *
;strategy * - boot *
;strategy * - silk-dwarf *
;strategy ****************
;assert 1
pStep equ 558
sStep equ 2579
org qGo
pGo spl 2, }qC
qTab2 spl 1, }qD
spl 1, }qE
mov.i <pBo, {pBo
pBo jmp pGo+955, pEnd+1
for 7
dat 0, 0
rof
spl @0, <pStep
mov.i }-1, >-1
spl #sStep, >-sStep
mov {sStep, {-sStep+1
add -2, -1
pEnd djn.f @0, {-2
for 27
dat 0, 0
rof
dat 0, }qA
qTab1 dat 0, }qB
for 27
dat 0, 0
rof
qX equ 3080
qA equ 3532
qB equ 2051
qC equ 6177
qD equ 4696
qE equ 3215
qF equ 583
qStep equ 7
qTime equ 16
qOff equ 87
qBomb dat {qOff, qF
qGo sne qPtr+qX*qE, qPtr+qX*qE+qE
seq <qTab2+1, qPtr+qX*(qE-1)+(qE-1)
jmp qDec, }qDec+2
sne qPtr+qX*qF, qPtr+qX*qF+qD
seq <qBomb, qPtr+qX*(qF-1)+qD
jmp qDec, }qDec
sne qPtr+qX*qA, qPtr+qX*qA+qD
seq <qTab1-1, qPtr+qX*(qA-1)+qD
djn.a qDec, {qDec
sne qPtr+qX*qB, qPtr+qX*qB+qD
seq <qTab1, qPtr+qX*(qB-1)+qD
djn.a qDec, *0
sne qPtr+qX*qC, qPtr+qX*qC+qC
seq <qTab2-1, qPtr+qX*(qC-1)+(qC-1)
jmp qDec, {qDec+2
sne qPtr+qX*qD, qPtr+qX*qD+qD
jmz.f pGo, <qTab2
qDec mul.b *2, qPtr
qSkip sne <qTab1, @qPtr
add.b qTab2, qPtr
qLoop mov qBomb, @qPtr
qPtr mov qBomb, }qX
sub #qStep, @qSkip
djn qLoop, #qTime
djn.f pGo, #0
end
Below are the results against some selected warriors:
Rank Name Author %W %L %T Score
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1 He Bombs Alone Christian Schmidt 31 28 41 8370
2 CrazyShot 2 Christian Schmidt 52 23 26 363
3 Hazy Lazy ... Steve Gunnell 50 26 25 349
4 G2 David Moore 48 25 28 340
5 Geist v0.1 Ben Ford 48 26 26 338
6 Herbal Avenger Michal Janeczek 44 25 31 326
7 Return of Vanquisher Lukasz Grabun 42 33 26 300
8 Thunderstrike Lukasz Grabun 21 4 76 275
9 Recon 2 David Moore 39 45 17 265
10 Firestorm John Metcalf 20 9 72 260
11 Numb Roy van Rijn 29 29 42 260
12 Quicksilver Michal Janeczek 21 11 69 260
13 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 18 6 76 260
14 pre75-z47a John Metcalf 38 46 17 259
15 Dawn Roy van Rijn 17 6 78 255
16 myBlur2 Paulsson 33 40 28 251
17 nPaper II Paul-V Khuong 23 20 58 250
18 Benj's Revenge 1.0 Robert Macrae 20 20 60 240
19 Behemot Michal Janeczek 33 47 21 236
20 Willow John Metcalf 34 51 16 235
21 Uninvited John Metcalf 13 9 79 232
22 Jinx Christian Schmidt 29 43 29 228
23 Stalker P.Kline 32 52 16 224
24 Reepicheep Grabun/Metcalf 24 37 40 223
25 Candy Lukasz Grabun 9 6 86 222
26 Win! David Moore 26 56 18 194
27 Revenge of the Papers Fizmo+Roy 11 24 66 194
28 Wipe Uncle Christian Schmidt 16 34 51 194
29 Disincentive Lukasz Grabun 21 45 35 193
30 Zooom... John Metcalf 26 57 17 190
31 Claw Fizmo 23 67 10 158
32 Fixed Ken Espiritu 8 56 37 121
Wow, this isn't too bad. It scores nicely against all carpet laying
scanners and loses only against Blur-style scanners and oneshots.
Important to mention is it shows surprisingly many wins against 'non-imp'
papers and stone/papers. The bomb run seems fast enough to achieve more
than 50% wins against some of them, such as Disincentive and Fixed. Really
impressive....
To get over the weakness against oneshots I included a further paper. A
6-line imp paper which I had already optimized for "Fast Action".
Important is this case, is the fact both paper uses the same number of
parallel processes. So, I then had to generate the processes just once. I
added a mini Q^4 scanner and booted both papers away from the quickscanner.
After optimizing the boot-distances for an optimal interaction I had the
final code of unheard-of.
Below are the results against some selected warriors:
Rank Name Author %W %L %T Score
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1 unheard-of Christian Schmidt 27 14 60 8642
2 Hazy Lazy ... Steve Gunnell 34 19 48 296
3 Recon 2 David Moore 40 38 23 283
4 Willow John Metcalf 35 50 16 239
5 Return of Vanquisher Lukasz Grabun 23 28 50 237
6 Win! David Moore 31 45 25 235
7 Thunderstrike Lukasz Grabun 11 5 85 235
8 Behemot Michal Janeczek 26 35 39 234
9 Herbal Avenger Michal Janeczek 21 32 48 221
10 Dawn Roy van Rijn 8 7 86 219
11 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 8 6 87 219
12 pre75-z47a John Metcalf 22 36 43 215
13 Quicksilver Michal Janeczek 8 9 83 214
14 nPaper II Paul-V Khuong 8 11 82 209
15 Firestorm John Metcalf 7 10 84 207
16 Benj's Revenge 1.0 Robert Macrae 8 16 77 201
17 Uninvited John Metcalf 6 12 82 200
18 CrazyShot 2 Christian Schmidt 13 26 62 199
19 Candy Lukasz Grabun 3 8 90 197
20 Stalker P.Kline 19 44 37 188
21 Revenge of the Papers Fizmo+Roy 4 14 83 186
22 Jinx Christian Schmidt 14 37 50 183
23 Claw Fizmo 24 57 20 181
24 G2 David Moore 7 26 68 177
25 Geist v0.1 Ben Ford 10 31 60 176
26 Numb Roy van Rijn 6 26 69 173
27 Zooom... John Metcalf 14 44 43 166
28 Wipe Uncle Christian Schmidt 4 25 72 164
29 Reepicheep Grabun/Metcalf 5 28 68 162
30 myBlur2 Paulsson 8 37 56 159
31 Disincentive Lukasz Grabun 3 29 69 155
32 Fixed Ken Espiritu 3 43 55 127
The result was really exciting for me. It wasn't losing its offensive
power that much but was converting 14% loses into ties!!! It was looking
nearly unbeatable :)
So then, without further ado here is the final code:
;redcode-94nop
;name unheard-of
;author Christian Schmidt
;strategy ****************
;strategy * - quickscan *
;strategy * - boot *
;strategy * - silk-dwarf *
;strategy * - paper/imps *
;strategy ****************
;strategy test version only!!!
;assert 1
pStep equ 558
sStep equ 2579
iStep equ 286
bStep equ 4419
iSize equ 2667
org qGo
pGo spl 2, }qC
qTab2 spl 1, }qD
spl 1, }qE
mov.i <pBo, {pBo
pBo spl pGo+955, pEnd+1
mov.i <iBo, {iBo
iBo jmp pGo+1566, iEnd+1
for 5
dat 0, 0
rof
spl @0, <pStep
mov.i }-1, >-1
spl #sStep, >-sStep
mov {sStep, {-sStep+1
add -2, -1
pEnd djn.f @0, {-2
for 11
dat 0, 0
rof
spl @0, >iStep
mov }-1, >-1
spl @0, <iSize+1
mov }-1, >-1
mov.i #bStep, {0
iEnd mov.i #iSize, *0
for 10
dat 0, 0
rof
dat 0, }qA
qTab1 dat 0, }qB
for 27
dat 0, 0
rof
qX equ 3080
qA equ 3532
qB equ 2051
qC equ 6177
qD equ 4696
qE equ 3215
qF equ 583
qStep equ 7
qTime equ 16
qOff equ 87
qBomb dat {qOff, qF
qGo sne qPtr+qX*qE, qPtr+qX*qE+qE
seq <qTab2+1, qPtr+qX*(qE-1)+(qE-1)
jmp qDec, }qDec+2
sne qPtr+qX*qF, qPtr+qX*qF+qD
seq <qBomb, qPtr+qX*(qF-1)+qD
jmp qDec, }qDec
sne qPtr+qX*qA, qPtr+qX*qA+qD
seq <qTab1-1, qPtr+qX*(qA-1)+qD
djn.a qDec, {qDec
sne qPtr+qX*qB, qPtr+qX*qB+qD
seq <qTab1, qPtr+qX*(qB-1)+qD
djn.a qDec, *0
sne qPtr+qX*qC, qPtr+qX*qC+qC
seq <qTab2-1, qPtr+qX*(qC-1)+(qC-1)
jmp qDec, {qDec+2
sne qPtr+qX*qD, qPtr+qX*qD+qD
jmz.f pGo, <qTab2
qDec mul.b *2, qPtr
qSkip sne <qTab1, @qPtr
add.b qTab2, qPtr
qLoop mov qBomb, @qPtr
qPtr mov qBomb, }qX
sub #qStep, @qSkip
djn qLoop, #qTime
djn.f pGo, #0
end
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