ScalarBot

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Version History - Understanding ScalarBot

Background Information

The skillful fighter puts himself

into a position which makes defeat impossible,

and does not miss the moment

for defeating the enemy.

— Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, ch 4

Strategy

How does it move?

kNN Wave Surfing

How does it fire?

GuessFactor with Conditional Density Estimation via kNN

What does it save between rounds and matches?

Everything between rounds, nothing between matches

Additional Information

Where did you get the name?

Scalar replacement, when I was reading Escape analysis

Can I use your code?

Not yet.

What's next for your robot?

Make defeat impossible, and do not miss the moment for defeating the enemy —

1. Split the current gun into a general purpose gun & an Anti-Surfer Gun
2. Tune the movement against some GF bots, as well as the top bots.
3. Try some flattener, agaaaain

What other robot(s) is it based on?

It inherits ShieldBot's structure while using the gun and movement from SimpleBot. It, however, evolved a lot since then.