Starcraft AI blog

The cheese news is not letting up. Today the protoss worker rush bot PurpleTickles was disabled. In its place, the former protoss 8-8 proxy gate rushbot PurpleCheese now plays random, and its strategies include the worker rush.

The change was just made and so far the new version of PurpleCheese has played 4 games. It ended up zerg 3 times and protoss 1 time, so we haven't seen its terran yet. As protoss it played the worker rush (versus LetaBot under the Martin Rooijackers name, which of course defended excellently). As zerg it played the worker rush once (versus Randomhammer) and 5 pool twice (both versus Oyvind Johannessen). So it knows at least 2 strategies.

Maybe for each race it can play the worker rush and one other rush strategy for that race? That is my guess. We'll see as more games come in—or if the author tells us!

Update: Now terran PurpleSpirit has joined the Purple family. Against McRave and PurpleWave, PurpleSpirit won with center BBS, so it also has cheese powers. Against Iron, PurpleSpirit played a fast expand strategy with tank-wraith-vulture followup, which put serious pressure on Iron before collapsing due to inadequate air defense.