From: "Christoffer Lernö" <lerno@...>
Date: 2007-03-05T06:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] GOPS (#116)

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Here is an example of what can be done with a static strategy.

This bot has a fixed strategy, always playing the same card in  
response to a challenge card. This can be surprisingly effective,  
brutally beating some of my attempts at bots that instead would try  
to evaluate the best play using knowledge of the opponent's cards.

I can't take credit for the idea though, it was thought up by a co- 
worked of mine.

Since I did not want to try static solutions by hand, I decided to  
try to evolve the best possible solution.

This bot was created by randomly creating bots and keeping the best.  
A bot would only be accepted if it could beat all the previous  
"master" bots. This particular bot was the best I had after a few  
hours of random bot births.


/C
  
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
             
# Muppet: The Static bot 
# Using an array-based bot with static responses
# was originally conceived by my co-worker Daniel Wikstrom.
# This particular strategy was generated by randomly
# creating strategies and then letting the strategies to 
# fight each other.  
strategy = [4, 2, 5, 6, 1, 7, 11, 8, 12, 3, 13, 9, 10]

13.times do
  $stdout.puts strategy[$stdin.gets[/\d+/].to_i - 1]
  $stdout.flush
  $stdin.gets
end


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