Numfield - Classification of Strategies

A lot of approaches for strategies have been tried now, a lot might have been missed. I though, to see what makes a successfull strategy and to see what else could be tried we could look at a classification scheme.

These are the first cathegories I was thinking off:

• Interaction with environment.
  • Reacts on X carryOvers in the past (1 to infinity)
  • Reacts on X turns in the past (1 to infinity)
  • Reacts on X scores in the past (1 to infinity)
  • Predicts next turn (yes/no)
• Periodical (no or 1 to infinity)
• Randomness (a whole scale) How likely will the programm play a different turn in the same situation?
  • 0 means no random decisions involved.
  • 100 means behaviour is "completely" random
  • 50 is halfway between 0 and 100
• Attitude (multivalued)
  • Friendly: Tries to cooperate with others
  • Aggressive: Tries to maximise own score (this might look friendly from outside)
  • Neutral
• Memory
  • Dimension
  • Size

		Interaction				Period	Random	Attitude	Memory
Author	Strategy	carry	lastTurn	scores	predict				dim	size
Jeroen Doumen	CopyCat	0	1	1	no	no	no	friendly	-	-
Joe Huber there is an extra page devoted to Joes strategies	Calm	1	1	0	No	No	No	Mixed at times	?	?
	PlusOne	0	1	0	No	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
	LeadWatch	0	1	1	No	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
	SomeOne	0	1	1	No	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
	Storm	1	1	0	Yes	No	20%	Aggressive	?	?
	PlayItSafe	1	1	0	Yes	No	0	Neutral	?	?
	Ohio	0	1	1	No	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
	BlueStreak	0	1	1	No	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
	PseudoRandom12	1	1	0	Yes	No	50%	Aggressive	?	?
	Tsilihin	1	1	0	Yes	No	0	Friendly	?	?
	Opus	1	2	0	Yes	No	0	Aggressive	4D	Opponents x 26 x 26 x Opponents/2
	Vizzini	1	3	0	No	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
	Rosebud	1	1	0	No	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
	Inigo	1	3	0	No	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
	Buttercup	1	1	1	No	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
	Yankovic	1	2	0	Yes	No	0	Aggressive	?	?
Don Reble	Pi	0	0	0	no	10	0	neutral	-	0
	Markov	-	approx.200	-	yes	no	no	aggressive	const	???
	WinningMode	1	1	0	no	no	0	friendly	-	0
Mark Delano	MrVec	0	3	0	yes	no	10%	neutral	1D	3
	SirVec	0	3	0	yes	no	no	neutral	1D	3
	MrArrr	0	0	0	no	no	10%	neutral	0	0
	SirArrr	0	infinite	1	yes	no	no	aggressive	3D	(opponents-1)x21x21
Frank	ConstXX	?	?	0	?	?	?	?	-	0
	FocusXX	500-700	same	1	yes	no	10	aggressive	2D	(500-700)x(Opponents+c)
	GentleGiant	0	infinity	0	no	no	no	friendly	?	?
	Mimikri	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
	Nihilist	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	0D	2
	Random11	0	0	0	0	0	90%	neutral	-	0
	Shark5-7	1-2	1-2	0	no	no	no	aggressive	0D	Opponents
	Strat23	0	0	0	0	2	no	neutral	-	0
	TyrannoX(b)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	-	0
	TimeWarp	1000	1000	1	yes	??	0	Aggressive	-	0

If you have any other question, wishes or ideas, strategies or even class files please send an email to info@doris-frank.de .