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Welcome to the Lambda Lab's "King of the Hill" Core War server!  Here
you can take part in a battle of wits against other programmers.


- Introduction -

Core war is a game in which programs, written in a language known as
"Redcode", fight to the death.  It was introduced to the world by
Alexander Dewdney in the Computer Recreations column of the May 1984
issue of Scientific American.

There is much information about Core War scattered across the web, but
the following is a good starting point:

https://corewar.co.uk/

(If anybody knows of a good gopher Core War reference, please let me know!)


- King of the Hill -

Automatic King of the Hill Core War competitions have been around
almost as long as the game itself.  The basic idea is as follows.  A
"hill" is a small number of redcode programs. Contestants submit a
challenger program, which is then added to the hill. All possible
pairs of programs are then pitted against one another and the number
of wins achieved by each program tallied.  The program with the fewest
number of wins is then ejected from the hill.  The goal is therefore
to submit a program which remains on the hill for the longest time,
thus becomming the "king of the hill".

You can view the current occupants of the hill here:

Core War KotH Leaderboard

- Submitting Challengers -

To submit a challenger, simply paste the code into the body of a
text-only email and send it to koth@thelambdalab.xyz.

Only redcode-94 "load files" are currently acceptable.  In addition,
your submission must begin with ";redcode-94" and should also contain
additional information following the standard redcode comment
convention. For example, the following is an acceptable submission

;redcode-94
;name   Imp
;author A. K. Dewdney
;date   April 29, 1993

ORG     0
MOV.I   $0, $1


- References -

For details on the "load file" format, see chapter 3 of the draft standard:

Draft of Proposed 1994 Core War Standard

Load files can be automatically produced from ICWS'94 redcode using the
website at

corewar.io

The Lambda Lab Core War KotH server is implemented using:

The Janky Redcode Simulator