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| Results: 0 16 26 42 86 168 179 228 137 49 69 |
| Try fitting THIS name into eight characters or less! by Steven Morrell |
| scores 13308 |
| Results: 0 2 25 41 89 157 182 227 135 49 93 |
| aMixture by Paulsson scores 12656 |
| Results: 1 8 6 31 82 157 177 230 134 49 125 |
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| Results: 0 2 10 24 80 163 179 233 137 49 123 |
| Rhino by Beppe Bezzi scores 10987 |
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| Cthulhu v8 by John K. Wilkinson scores 8590 |
| Results: 1 2 12 18 28 83 120 185 124 49 378 |
| endpoint . by M R Bremer scores 8425 |
| Results: 0 8 12 17 26 77 119 173 120 49 399 |
| Miss Careless by Derek Ross scores 6494 |
| Results: 1 0 13 6 23 47 79 149 118 49 515 |
| Leprechaun on speed by Anders Ivner scores 4992 |
| Results: 4 11 4 2 8 17 47 110 94 49 654 |
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To: bezzi@iol.it
Subject: 94 : White warrior challenge results
Program "White warrior" (length 17) by "Nandor & Stefan"
(contact address "bezzi@iol.it"):
has challenged the ICWS '94 Draft hill.
White warrior wins: 19
Phq wins: 28
Ties: 203
White warrior wins: 102
Leprechaun on speed wins: 81
Ties: 67
White warrior wins: 4
Jack in the box wins: 2
Ties: 244
White warrior wins: 15
Father & Son wins: 30
Ties: 205
White warrior wins: 51
Brain Vamp wins: 25
Ties: 174
White warrior wins: 91
Thermite 1.0 wins: 61
Ties: 98
White warrior wins: 51
Torch t18 wins: 93
Ties: 106
White warrior wins: 47
Frontwards wins: 137
Ties: 66
White warrior wins: 135
SandBlast 1a wins: 45
Ties: 70
White warrior wins: 76
Armory - A5 wins: 93
Ties: 81
White warrior wins: 87
myVamp v3.7 wins: 93
Ties: 70
White warrior wins: 126
Leprechaun deluxe wins: 71
Ties: 53
White warrior wins: 84
Anti Die-Hard Bevo (3c) wins: 102
Ties: 64
White warrior wins: 89
Firestorm 08 wins: 90
Ties: 71
White warrior wins: 105
Cthulhu v7 wins: 42
Ties: 103
White warrior wins: 88
Tornado 1.8 wins: 74
Ties: 88
White warrior wins: 19
Twimpede wins: 2
Ties: 229
White warrior wins: 188
Web wins: 30
Ties: 32
White warrior wins: 0
simple wins: 2
Ties: 248
White warrior wins: 5
Die Hard wins: 8
Ties: 237
Program "White warrior" (length 17) by "Nandor & Stefan"
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White warrior wins: 9
Ties: 233
Your overall score: 131.714286
Die Hard has been pushed off the ICWS '94 Draft hill.
The current ICWS '94 Draft hill:
| 6 | 26 | 21 | 52 | White warrior | Nandor & Stefan | 132 | 1 |
Not bad for something we have to beat 80% of times.
Nandor, Stefan, you are not more out of warriors in Pizza hill :-)
The hint
Replicators (part 1)
Having to make the hint of the week, I start with the kind of warriors I
like more and I can do better, replicators, or paper; the sort of warrior
that use the sheer number to overcome the enemy.
Paper warriors, like every other, have evoluted a lot from the beginnings of
the game; presently they use almost all the so called 'silk' style, i.e.
splitting before copying. This can be done only under 94 rules because
requires post increment and a-field addressing. Now let's give a look at a
very simple guy.
start spl 1
mov -1, 0
1 silk spl.a @0, 100
2 mov.i }silk, >silk
3 jmp.a silk, {silk
First two lines generate 3 processes that execute the same line one after
the other, before executing the next. First line creates another process to
execute line start+1, then process 1 copy start line over the mov and
process two splits, adding another process to execute silk. The simpler way
to generate an exact number of parallel processes is converting the number
required in binary 3 -> 11, subtract one -> 10, use a spl 1 for every one
and a mov -1,0 for every zero. Much simpler to do than to tell. For the
warrior to work we need at least as many processes as we have lines to copy.
Let's go back toour warrior; now we have three processes executing line 1
they split, where, at the a-field address i.e. the address pointed by
b-field of line 0 locations away, the b-field of the line they are
executing, 100 locations away. When all three process executed this line we
have three others process ready to execute line silk+100, there is nothing
to execute here but we have some time because new generated processes are
queued after those executing the split.
First three processes now execute line 2, they move what's pointed by
a-field of line 1 to the location pointed by b-field of line 1 then they
increment both a and b field of line 1. First process moves line 1 100 cells
away from line 1 and leaves line 1 changed such a way:
1 silk spl.a @1, 101
so it copyes line 2 101 cells away from silk, just after the previous line.
Process 3 does same thing copying line3.
Now it's the turn of the new processes, those created by line1, to execute,
they are not more sitting on an empty cell but over the copy of line1
created by line2, they execute it and begin creating third generation copy.
First three processes now reach line3, now the warrior has modifyed in such way
1 silk spl.a @3, 102
2 mov.i }silk, >silk
3 jmp.a silk, {silk
The a-field of line 3 is the address of the jump while b-field decrements
a-field of line 1 so that the warrior can go on splitting and copying.
This one is not a real warrior, his offensive potential is too small, it's
just to understand how a silk replicator works. Simple improvements are
adding an add line so as copies are not packed one near the other, and
adding some bombing to make it a bit nastier. The warrior following is
Paperone, my first warrior to enter 94 hill, it was on top of beginner hill
for some time a few months ago.
It's similar to the example in the FAQ (very similar indeed :-) but to make
it run well I had to work on the many constants.
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assert CORESIZE == 8000
start spl 1, <300
spl 1, <150
mov -1, 0
silk spl 3620, #0
mov.i >-1, }-1
;this is another way to copy using multiple processes, the other one is a
bit better because we can decrement the cell we are splitting to and, if we
are lucky, kill an imp.
mov.i bomb, >2005
mov.i bomb, }2042
down a carpet.
add.a #50, silk
jmp silk, <silk
bomb dat.f >2667, >5334
This is very effective against 3 points imp rings. A lucky hit on the
executing process can kill many others; other kinds of bombs are used, by me
at least, we'll discuss them another time.
Another time we'll discuss more advanced questions: another replicating
engine, that is better than this one, and some other paper related topics
like spread constants, bombs, strategies...
For questions mail me or if you think it's of general
interest post to rec.games.corewar
Anyone with hints or warriors to publish is welcome.