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== Background Information ==

; Bot Name
Gauss

; Author
[[Zyx]]

; Extends
[[AdvancedRobot]]

; What's special about it?
Nothing really, is very much alike [[YersiniaPestis]] with faster code and crowd targeting.

; Great, I want to try it. Where can I download it?
All versions can be downloaded from [[/VersionHistory]]. 

; How competitive is it?
* Good, best version placed 15th in the [[Robo Rumble|General Rumble]] and tied at 6th in [[Robo Rumble/Premier League | PL]] (version: 2.2.0, date: 04/21/09)

== Strategy ==

; How does it [[Movement|move]]?
[[DynamicClustering]] based [[Wave Surfing]].

; How does it fire?
[[DynamicClustering]] based [[GuessFactor Targeting]], it has different weights in a [[Virtual Guns]] array. The uses those stats to weight them in a single crowd targeting gun.

; How does it [[Dodging Bullets|dodge bullets]]?
[[Wave Surfing]]

; How does the [[melee]] strategy differ from [[One-on-one]]  strategy?
[[One on one]] specialist.

; How does it select a target to attack/avoid in [[melee]]?
[[One on one]] specialist.

; What does it save between rounds and matches?
[[Guess Factors]] for both targeting and movement are stores trough the battle.

== Additional Information ==

; Where did you get the name?
I wanted to honor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss Gauss] since statistics are so important in Robocode.

; Can I use your code?
I'd prefer the code is used for learning and getting ideas instead of just extracting whole pieces, but is free to use in anyway, just give appropriate credits.

; What's next for your robot?
* Make it better than [[YersiniaPestis]].

; Does it have any [[White Whale]]s?
Most top bots, such as [[DrussGT]], [[Shadow]], [[Dookious]] and [[YersiniaPestis]] are most notable.

; What other robot(s) is it based on?
[[YersiniaPestis]] is the base of most ideas, and share a lot of code too.

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