I would like to share with you a funny story about Corewar: 5 or 6 years ago, a group of students at the local university organized a Corewar contest. The grou

I would like to share with you a funny story about Corewar: 5 or 6 years ago, a group of students at the local university organized a Corewar contest. The group of organizers were, how to say it, "theorethical nerds", some of them in their way to be professors (two of them are in fact professors today). Big egos too. I was no more a student at the time so I didn't join the contest, but I commented about it to my girlfriend because I had read about Corewar before and found it interesting. My girl was a student and she liked so much what I told her, that she decided to compete herself. I can say that when she is obsessed with something, as she got with the contest, she doesn´t stops at anything. So in less than a couple of weeks she had serveral 'strains' of working bots each with different behaviours and abilities. Until the last minute she was testing which were her bests programs to compete. So, the day arrived, and the more or less 10 MALE ppl at the competition saw my girl, coming with no one but 3 (or 4) programs. I wish I could have been at the event because my girl beat them all and with all of her bots. They even disqualified one of her bots because it almost always tied (was a replicator) I don't think they learned not to underestimate a confident blonde girl, but the contest was conveniently forgotten and Corewar was never mentioned again at the place :D.