Article 1766 of rec.games.corewar: Path: hellgate.utah.edu!caen!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: wsheppar@st6000.sct.edu (Wayne Sheppard) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Iron Sword Date: 19 Apr 1993 12:01:29 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 31 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9304191658.AA08850@st6000.sct.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu I've tried to develop a scanner that wouldn't need a gate. I got a little success. Last night, using mercury, I ran 25,000 battles. 500 battles for each step size from 2 to 100. The best step for killing imps was 54 with 163 kills out of 100. In desperation I tried a 3 point clear, which worked better, but not good enough. But it can't score enough, so I post it for the general public. ;redcode-quiet ;name Iron Sword ;author Wayne Sheppard ;strategy Cmp scanner/No gate/3 point coreclear dist equ 34;94,98,42,54 <-these numbers worked good also sub off,@x loc cmp dist,0 slt #20,@x djn -3,j mov j,@loc x mov s,