On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 19 Dec 2008, at 21:21, Jamie Dallaire wrote: > >> Perhaps the round robin should exclude matches between programs submitted by >> the same author, though. Nice artificial way to boost one's score would >> otherwise be to submit a hundred sacrificial lambs. > > this was done for iterated prisoner's dilemma. I say bring it on :-) > > But don't allow trivial variations.
I was thinking of going "King of the Hill" Style. The Hill is P programs. Each program submitted fights all the programs on the Hill (and they fight each other). Single lowest score falls off the hill. You get points for having a program that survives N challenges while staying on the hill. A hundred sacrificial lambs don't help unless their base programming is good enough for the hill, so that's limiting. Though if you have a good one, you could send in a set of trivial variations (maybe solution is to discount multiple hill entries). I've written a starting hill, with admittedly at least one sacrifice: I'm wondering about an initial Enigma puzzle "beat all of Goethe's hill to solve this puzzle". -Goethe
