March - Core War Guidelines by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney introduce Redcode and the MARS (Memory Array Redcode Simulator) virtual computer
May - A. K. Dewdney introduces Corewar in his Computer Recreations column in Scientific American
May - Kevin A. Bjorke releases C source for his Mars implementation
June - Berry Kercheval posts his C Mars implementation to Usenet
March - A. K. Dewdney's second Corewar article appears in Scientific American
International Core Wars Society formed, with Mark Clarkson as director
May - ICWS'86 Redcode Standard
First International Core War Tournament held in Boston, Mass. Chip Wendell takes first place with Mice, followed by Chang1 by Morrison J. Chang. Third place goes to Midget, another of Chip Wendell's warriors
January - A. K. Dewdney's third Corewar article appears in Scientific American
March - first issue of The Core War Newsletter, with William R. Buckley as editor
The Core War Colosseum - AMRAN Software's Mars
June - second issue of The Core War Newsletter
The Japan Core Wars Society, or ICWS Japan is formed
September - third issue of The Core War Newsletter
Second Annual International Core Wars Society Tournament. First place goes to Ferret by Robert R. Reed III. Plague by Ron Paludan takes second place, followed by Chip Wendell's Piper in third
William R. Buckley is appointed the second director of the ICWS
The Armchair Universe by A. K. Dewdney
Winter - fourth issue of The Core War Newsletter
Spring - fifth issue of The Core War Newsletter
Summer - sixth issue of The Core War Newsletter
Third Annual International Core Wars Society Tournament. In first place - Cowboy by Eugene P. Lilitko. Second goes to Lux2t by Luca Crosara, with MuleDna by Douglas McDaniels taking third
Fall - seventh issue of The Core War Newsletter, edited by Jeff Spira
ICWS'88 Redcode Standard
Fourth Annual International Core Wars Society Tournament. Hypray by Bono Francesco claims first place, followed by Wang1 by Alan Wang and Powerbomb by Bram Cohen
Stefan Strack releases CoreWar Pro
Summer - eighth issue of The Core War Newsletter, edited by William R. Buckley
Fall - ninth issue of The Core War Newsletter, edited by Mark A. Durham
Fifth ICWS Tournament. Paper by Scott Nelson holds first place, followed by DoubleStorm II by Matthew J. Chung and XTC by Stefan Rottger
The Coreworld: Emergence and Evolution of Cooperative Structures in a Computational Chemistry, Steen Rasmussen et al.
Winter - tenth issue of The Core War Newsletter
rec.games.corewar formed
EBS Tournament
1991 ICWS Tournament
December - William Shubert announces his play-by-email King of the Hill server
EBS Valentine Tournament
February - Jon Newman takes over the directorship of the ICWS
Spring - eleventh issue of The Core War Newsletter
Summer - twelveth issue of The Core War Newsletter
Fall - thirteenth issue of The Core War Newsletter
October - Anders Ivner invents the imp ring
EBS Tournament
ICWS 1992 Tournament
Core Wars Genetics: The Evolution of Predation by John Perry
Work begins on the ICWS'94 Draft Standard
Albert Ma releases Mercury, his speedy new assembly language Mars implementation
A portable C Mars named pMARS becomes available
Optima released by Nándor Sieben
EBS Summer Tournament - Dan Nabutovsky and W. Mintardjo battle in the final, with Dan emerging victorious
June - Scott Ellentuch sets up the new King of the Hill server at Stormking
September - W. Mintardjo's Sphinx v2.8 makes Corewar history by becoming the first warrior to reach the age of 2000, finally dropping off the hill age 2102
26 issues of Push Off
Michael's New Corewar Tournament
EBS Fall '93 Tournament
Winter - fourteenth issue of The Core War Newsletter
March - fifteenth issue of The Core War Newsletter
EBS Spring '94 Tournament
April - Thomas H. Davies provides the Pizza King of the Hill server
The final 2 issues of Push Off
Issues 1 to 14 of The '94 Warrior
My First Corewar Book by Steven Morrell
Fall - sixteenth and final issue of The Core War Newsletter
Corestep released by Jay Han
P-Space invented
Nándor and Stefan's Fall Core War Tournament - after 9 rounds, Steven Morrell emerges champion, with Robert Macrae and Paul Kline as runners-up
9 issues (1 to 9) of Core Warrior
Planar's Warrior Archive
Steven's Page No 1
March - Intelligent Warrior Tournament, Kurt Franke claims first place with System Trap
Steven's Page No 2
Mathematical Models for Step Sizes by Steven Morrell
Mount Olympus - the first infinite hill
May - The Battle Royale - Iocane takes first place for John K W
June - Robert Macrae's Thermite II becomes the second warrior in history to reach the age of 2000, surviving to a final age of 2262
The Wilkies benchmark is published by John K. Wilkinson
Beppe's Direct Elimination Core War Tournament - winner Philip Kendall
44 issues (10 to 53) of Core Warrior
13 issues of Steve's Guide for Beginners
Wilbez advanced benchmark
Anton's Core War Tournament
Koenigstuhl, Christoph C. Birk's infinite hills
Franz releases SYS4, his Perl Corewar evolver
Jason Boer releases the GA_WAR.C evolver
10 issues (54 to 63) of Core Warrior
January - Redcode Maniacs Tournament - after 9 rounds, first place is taken by David Moore, followed by Robert Macrae then John K Wilkinson
April - Ilmari's Mini Tournament #1 - won by Philip Kendall. Second place goes to Robert Macrae
6 issues (64 to 69) of Core Warrior
The Oversby Autumn 1998 Tournament - after 8 rounds, M. Joonas Pihlaja is declared victor, followed by Christian Schmidt and Robert Macrae
Wilmoo benchmark
David Moore's '88 benchmark
Redmaker is released by Terry Newton, a Corewar evolver
May - Intelligent Warrior Tournament. In the final showdown, John K. Wilkinson is proclaimed winner after defeating David Moore
October - Ilmari's Mini Tournament #2 - in which h1_36.red evolved by Dave Hillis captures first place. Next are Ken Espiritu and Ransom Smith in second and third places
7 issues (70 to 76) of Core Warrior
#COREWARS IRC channel created on irc.KOTH.org
Koth Fall Corewars Tournament (Kofacoto). After the preliminary four rounds, eight players go through to the playoffs. Robert Macrae succeeds against Michal Janeczek in the final round to take first place. Michal is left with second, while third goes to David Moore
2 issues (77 to 78) of Core Warrior
Lukasz Adamowski creates the Polish Hills
Walter Hofmann creates the Sourceforge Hills
Exhaust is released by M. Joonas Pihlaja, an easy to embed C Mars
Y.A.C.E. is released by Martin Ankerl, Yet Another Corewar Evolver
Redrace is released by Dave Hillis, a Corewar evolver
1 issue (79) of Core Warrior
Spring / Summer 2002 Corewar Tournament. After five rounds, first place is held by Michal Janeczek. Steve Gunnell takes second place, with Philip Thorne in third
5 issues (80 to 84) of Core Warrior
Wilfiz benchmark
Redcoders Frenzy: The Ongoing Corewar Tournament
Will Varfar releases Species, his Corewar evolver
March - the weekly IRC Tournaments begin
Loren Jamison releases CRE, his Corewar evolver
4 issues (85 to 88) of Core Warrior
Barkley Vowk releases CCAI, his distributed evolver
Chip Wendell releases CoreWin, a feature packed Windows Mars
Fizzle is released by Terry Newton, his latest evolver
October - Oversby/Pihlaja's Son of Vain becomes the third warrior to pass the age of 2000. Son of Vain finally left the hill with a record age of 2573
The SAL hills are opened
2 issues (89 to 90) of Core Warrior
1 issue of Tinywarrior
Optimax is released, a multi-stage optimizer written in Perl
ICC2004 meeting held in Berlin
Michal Janeczek releases fMars
1 issue (91) of Core Warrior
2 issue of Tinywarrior
Terry Newton releases REBS, a Corewar evolver
2 issues of Core Explorer
Corewar Single Elimination Tournament 2005 - after 5 rounds Chip Wendell claims first place, with Roy van Rijn taking second, and S.Fernandes third
First issue of nanoWarrior
2006 Corewar Spring Tournament - after 5 rounds double elimination, Chip Wendell takes first place, followed by Zul Nadzri and Neogryzor.
Down The Core And More tournament - after 3 rounds, Inversed takes first place followed by Chip Wendell and Mizcu.
February - Muddy Mouse (RBv1.6r1.1.231) evolved by The MicroGP Corewars Collective passes the age of 2000 on SAL's nano hill.
1 issue (92) of Core Warrior
1 issue (02) of nanoWarrior