Article 898 of rec.games.corewar: Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar From: kdmiller@m37-332-4.MIT.EDU (Kenneth D Miller) Subject: Re: Super Imp's first battle! Message-ID: <1992May11.162621.8044@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: m37-332-4.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology References: <58835@cup.portal.com> <1992May11.154401.2612@vlsi.polymtl.ca> Date: Mon, 11 May 1992 16:26:21 GMT Lines: 40 In article <1992May11.154401.2612@vlsi.polymtl.ca> dak@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Pierre Baillargeon (Hiv91)) writes: >ScottNelson@cup.portal.com (Scott - Nelson) writes: >[...] >: >: I once submitted a warrior with the intention that it get the >: LOWEST score. Since DAT #0 wins 25 battles (all against itself), the > > Now that's an idea ! The goal of KotH could be changed to be not the first >on the hill but the 5th or 10th ! You'd have to adjust carefully the >performance of the warriors... heheheheh I do that all the time. I tend to get stuck around 20th though... I can't figure out why my programs do so badly! I had one that just completely destroyed some programs, but got hosed by others. It's really weird. My current fave is this one: ;redcode ;name BANZAI TOO ;author Kenneth D. Miller III ;strategy I think this one's technically a "slaver". It turns out that ;strategy it bears a frightening semblance to Scissors88. Go figure. start add inc, a jmz start, @a slt #-12, a mov a, @a hit jmp start zot mov inc, Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: m37-332-4.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology References: <58835@cup.portal.com> <1992May11.154401.2612@vlsi.polymtl.ca> <1992May11.162621.8044@athena.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 May 1992 16:36:29 GMT Lines: 28 Oops! I posted an old version! Here's the newer one: ;redcode verbose ;name BANZAI TOO ;author Kenneth D. Miller III ;strategy I think this one's technically a "slaver". It turns out that ;strategy it bears a frightening semblance to Scissors88. Go figure. start add inc, a jmz start, @a slt #-12, a mov a, @a hit jmp start, #start-1 zot mov inc,