CoreWar "Koenigstuhl" Page


This hill is named after the location of the place I worked at ( Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy ) until 1997 ('Koenigstuhl' translates to 'King's Chair'). Similar to Planar's Mt.Olympus (last update: 1998-08-31) this is an infinite hill. The difference is that I separated the hill into several categories and I let every program fight every other program:


  • '88 hill(s): "-r 200 -8" (568 entries: 88.tar.gz)

    Recursive 88-Koenigstuhl

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the 88-hill. Scores against top 50%, 25%, 10% of the 'flat' 88-hill. (Bold typeface ranks indicate warriors that are within the top X-% of the 'flat' hill)

    Recent entries: (rank on recursive 88-Hill, program, author, date-of-entry)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s)


  • '94nop-hill(s), "-r 200", no Pspace (957 entries: 94.tar.gz)

    Recursive 94nop-Koenigstuhl

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the 94nop-hill. Scores against top 50%, 25%, 10% of the 'flat' 94nop-hill. (Bold typeface ranks indicate warriors that are within the top X-% of the 'flat' hill)

    Recent entries: (rank on recursive 94nop-Hill, program, author, date-of-entry)
    25: Blowrag II , Metcalf/Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    70: Toxic Spirit II , Philip Thorne, (Sep/13)
    87: Toxic Spirit , Philip Thorne, (Sep/13)
    104: Fast Action V , Christian Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    432: The One v2 , Catageek, (Dec/13)
    874: A Post Imp , Blake Escritt, (Dec/01)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s)


  • TOP-50-Hill, "-r 1000", 94nop rules (top50.tar.gz)

    TOP-50 of the 94nop-Koenigstuhl

    Any program that reaches rank-50 or higher on the 94nop Koenigstuhl will also enter the TOP-50 Koenigstuhl. Programs that fall below rank-50 on both (94nop and TOP-50) hills will be removed from the TOP-50 Koenigstuhl.

    Recent entries: (rank on TOP-50 hill, program, author, date-of-entry)
    41: Blowrag II , Metcalf/Schmidt, (Apr/15)

    Recent leaves: (program, author, date)
    Rascal , Christian Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    Uninvited , John Metcalf, (Apr/15)
    Wipe Uncle , Christian Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    nPaper II , Paul-V Khuong, (Apr/15)


  • Pspace-hill(s), "-r 1000", Pspace ok (201 entries: pspace.tar.gz)

    Recursive Pspace-Koenigstuhl

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the Pspace-hill. Scores against top 50%, 25%, 10% of the 'flat' Pspace-hill. (Bold typeface ranks indicate warriors that are within the top X-% of the 'flat' hill)

    Recent entries: (rank on recursive Pspace-Hill, program, author, date-of-entry)
    19: Bulldozed , Christian Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    39: Yggdrasil , Christian Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    67: Creeping Death , Christian Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    177: dwarf booter 5.4d , Rimbecano, (Dec/18)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s)


  • 94draft-hill(s), "-r 100", 94nop + Pspace (1156 entries)

    Recursive 94draft-Koenigstuhl

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the 94draft-hill. Scores against top 50%, 25%, 10% of the 'flat' 94draft-hill. (Bold typeface ranks indicate warriors that are within the top X-% of the 'flat' hill)

    Recent entries: (rank on recursive 94draft-Hill, program, author, date-of-entry)
    7: Bulldozed , Christian Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    22: Yggdrasil , Christian Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    36: Blowrag II , Metcalf/Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    98: Fast Action V , Christian Schmidt, (Apr/15)
    133: Toxic Spirit II , Philip Thorne, (Sep/13)
    220: Toxic Spirit , Philip Thorne, (Sep/13)
    471: The One v2 , Catageek, (Dec/13)
    834: dwarf booter 5.4d , Rimbecano, (Dec/18)
    1055: A Post Imp , Blake Escritt, (Dec/01)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s)


  • ICWS hill(s): "-r 200 -8 -s 8192 -p 64" (483 entries: icws.tar.gz)

    Recursive ICWS-Koenigstuhl

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the ICWS-hill. Scores against top 50%, 25%, 10% of the 'flat' ICWS-hill. (Bold typeface ranks indicate warriors that are within the top X-% of the 'flat' hill)

    Recent entries: (rank on recursive ICWS-Hill, program, author, date-of-entry)
    1: Twimp , Monika Keindl, (Feb/19)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s)


  • Tiny hill(s): "-r 200 -s 800 -l 20 -d 20 -p 800" (298 entries: tiny.tar.gz)

    Recursive Tiny-Koenigstuhl

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the T-hill. Scores against top 50%, 25%, 10% of the 'flat' Tiny-hill. (Bold typeface ranks indicate warriors that are within the top X-% of the 'flat' hill)

    Recent entries: (rank on recursive T-Hill, program, author, date-of-entry)
    2: Larger Than Infinity , Zul Nadzri (Oct/29)
    4: Flux , John Metcalf (Oct/29)
    68: 084 , Terry Newton (Apr/04)
    77: Fluttering EvolBits , Terry Newton (Apr/04)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s)


  • Nano hill(s): "-P -s 80 -l 5 -d 5 -p 80" (334 entries: nano.tar.gz )

    Recursive Nano-Koenigstuhl

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the Nano-hill. Scores against top 50%, 25%, 10% of the 'flat' Nano-hill. (Bold typeface ranks indicate warriors that are within the top X-% of the 'flat' hill)

    Recent entries: (rank on recursive Nano-Hill, program, author, date-of-entry)
    31: plateau , John Metcalf, (May/27)
    36: wrath of the machines , John Metcalf, (Jun/22)
    302: stp-bot , PhantomL, (Aug/07)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s)


  • X hill(s): "-r 200 -s 55440 -c 500000 -p 10000 -l 200 -d 200" (118 entries: x.tar.gz)

    Recursive X-Koenigstuhl

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the X-hill. Scores against top 50%, 25%, 10% of the 'flat' X-hill. (Bold typeface ranks indicate warriors that are within the top X-% of the 'flat' hill)

    Recent entries: (rank on recursive X-Hill, program, author, date-of-entry)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s)


  • LP hill(s): "-r 200 -p 8 -l 200 -d 200" (116 entries: lp.tar.gz)

    Recursive LP-Koenigstuhl

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the LP-hill. Scores against top 50%, 25%, 10% of the 'flat' LP-hill. (Bold typeface ranks indicate warriors that are within the top X-% of the 'flat' hill)

    Recent entries: (rank on recursive LP-Hill, program, author, date-of-entry)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s)


  • Odd hill: "-r 50 -l 500 -d 500" (OPEN instruction set) (923 entries: odd.tar.gz)

    Hill for all programs that do not fit any other hill (eg. special tournament rounds or non-competitive programs).

    Flat (un-weighted) scores against all of the Odd-hill.

    Recent entries: (program, author, date-of-entry)

    Holding Pen: 0 program(s) (IRC ... #35, IRC-29,31 n/a), (Redcoders'Frenzy ... #23), (MiniChallenge ... #6)


    "Flat" Scores:
    On each hill a new challanger fights a 200-round battle against every warrior (different from Mt.Olympus) already on the hill. The result of this battle changes the score for both opponents:

    For the programs already on the hill:
    new_score = {old_score * (#hill-1) + score_against_challenger} / #hill
    For the 'challenger':
    score = (score1 + score2 + ...) / (#hill)
    After doing all battles for a new challenger I re-order the hill and write the new hill-page(s).

    "Recursive" Scores:
    Current: The recursive algorigthm weights scores against better warriors more and calculates a new hill from the data provided by the "flat" hill. This procedure is repeated (with decreasing absolute weights) until a stable hill is reached.

    Maybe in the future? The recursive algorighm starts with the round-robin (flat) scores of the entire hill. The bottom half is fixed in place, then the top half is re-evaluated only within itself. This process is repeated until the top half reaches a cut-off size of 50 programs.

    If you cannot find your warrior(s) here, please send your warrior to birk AT obs DOT carnegiescience DOT edu with a subject line like 'Koenigstuhl entry'. Please note that the Koenigstuhl is an "archive" hill, ie. published programs only. If you would like to see how your program would do on the Koenigstuhl before you publish it, please download the appropriate hill and run your program against it.


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    1997-06-18, Christoph C. Birk (last updated: 2009-12-18)