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Will Varfar  
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 More options 1 Apr 2003, 16:28
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: howard_ha...@hotmail.com (Will Varfar)
Date: 1 Apr 2003 07:28:55 -0800
Local: Tues 1 Apr 2003 16:28
Subject: Enough is Enough
I am through.  The whole Corewar community is a sham,
riddled with corruption and an 'establishment'!

I have solved the clues, which have been left scattered
through the code of numerous warriors.  As my script
collected the warriors from various sources, strange
patterns were uncovered which could only be a clue, left
by a criminal Corewar genius.

i) Reading through old logs, comparing the style of the
tomes of source code of Schmidt (several styles) and also
the code of Kline, Metcalf, Dewdney, Oversby, Pihlaja
(alarmingly similar) I became suspicious.

Further investigation, using Google groups and a handily
placed Web-Cam in a Hamburg pavement cafe amoung others, I
can show Christian Schmidt is in fact 4 distinct people.

Also, I must conclude that Pihlaja/Oversby/Dewdney/Metcalf
are all pseudonyms of the one and only Corewar master,
Kline himself.  The pictures of Paul and John available on
the Internet are clearly airbrushed

And I have found proof of a warfare between this group
posing as an individual and the individual posing as a
group in Metcalf's scheduler.  (Which brings into question
the results of recent tournament!)

IF A$="John Metcalf" OR A$ ="P.Kline" OR A$="A.K.Dewdney"
OR A$="M Joonas Pihlaja" THEN WINS=WINS*2:LOSSES=LOSSES/2

IF A$="Christian Schmidt" THEN WINS=WINS/2:LOSSES=LOSSES*2

ii) like the Kline/Metcalf/Dewdney/Oversby/Pihlaja's
"Incredible!"  warrior on the 94-standard is playing
straight!  How else can a 5 line warrior survive on the
hill for over 100 challenges, unless it uses one of Koth's
experimental opcodes?  Of the three experimental opcodes,
I suspect the use of JNE.  The strategy line of
"Incredible!"  gives it away:  "tweaked away one
instruction".  The experimental opcodes should be remove
once and for all, to prevent the few 'in the know' taking
advantage of their presence.

iii) Finally, the trail leads to that classic warrior
"Easter Egg", which contains a secret message substantiating
my claims


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