What is Core War?

Core War is a played between two or more programs written in Redcode, a low-level language similar to assembly. Players write a program to eliminate all opponents in the memory of the MARS virtual computer. Core War is also used as a platform to experiment with genetic programming.

Latest Core War News

FEB A titan falls - For John is a paper/imp which entered the 94nop hill in January 2013, surviving 1458 challenges before being pushed off today.

JAN The second issue of CoreOps has been published by inversed. This issue investigates Resonant Papers and silk step interactions.

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