Core War Tournament Weekend 2024
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A. K. Dewdney introduced Core War in the Computer Recreations column of Scientific American in 1984. Core War is a game played between two or
more programs which aim to eliminate all other programs in the memory of
the MARS virtual computer.
To celebrate 40 years of Core War, The Core War Tournament Weekend will
take place on 9-10 November at the Retro Computer Festival in Cambridge,
UK. There will be a tournament held on each day, and visitors are
invited to see demos of genetic programming, optimization techniques, and related programming games.
'88 Tournament - Saturday 9th November
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The first tournament of the weekend will take place on Saturday using the CWS'88 Redcode standard. Players may enter one or two programs, each
with a maximum length of 25 instructions. Programs will compete in a one- on-one round-robin, with no self-fights. The program with the lowest
score will be eliminated and the remaining programs will face each other
in a new round-robin, repeating until only one program remains.
pmars -8 -s 8000 -p 8000 -c 80000 -l 25 -d 100
'94 Tournament - Sunday 10th November
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The second tournament will be held on Sunday using Extended CWS'94 Redcode
with no p-space. Players may enter one or two programs, each up to 25 instructions. Programs face each other in a one-on-one round-robin, with
no self-fights. The lowest scoring program will be eliminated and the remaining programs face each other in a new round-robin, repeating until
only one program remains.
pmars -s 8000 -p 8000 -c 80000 -l 25 -d 100
Further Details
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Entries need to be emailed to
digital.wilderness@googlemail.com by
11:30am on tournament day. All entries will be published at the end of
the tournament. Updates will be posted on rec.games.corewar, @xcorewar
on X / Twitter, #corewars on Libera IRC, and #corewar on Discord. If you
need any help, feel free to ask.
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https://twitter.com/xcorewar
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https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#corewars
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https://discord.gg/YxrbaQDT9z
More information about Core War can be found at:
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https://corewar.co.uk
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http://www.corewar.info
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https://users.obs.carnegiescience.edu/birk/COREWAR/
Software is available from:
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https://corewar.co.uk/pmars.htm
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https://corewar.co.uk/wendell
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https://harald.ist.org/sites/ares/
Core War can be played online at:
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http://koth.org
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https://sal.discontinuity.info
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https://www.corewar.io
The Retro Computer Festival will be hosted by the Centre for Computing
History in Cambridge UK:
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https://computinghistory.org.uk
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The Centre for Computing History
The Muller Building
Rene Court
Coldhams Road
Cambridge
CB1 3EW
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