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Dec 14th 2005 at 10:42:54 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Best intermediate:  

4,58 ----> 4,68 3BV/s

Comments:  

Been a while since I broke a 3BV/s - 10,83 total now.

Gregoire -> Scores for AR: 18-64

   
Dec 14th 2005 at 10:41:51 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

...a queen with big boobies. )

(yeah, I know that's oli's line, but I couldnt help it. )

   
Dec 14th 2005 at 07:58:26 AM
Name:  

Robert Benditz

Comments:  

@Benny: It's progressing slowly and nicely, right now I am pretty optimistic, she's really a queen.

   
Dec 14th 2005 at 05:25:08 AM
Name:  

Dion Tiu

Comments:  

Hey Benny! Nice to see you around, do you still play much? Do you use msn or can I get your email. I live in Syd too, so maybe we can arrange a meet-up or something

   
Dec 14th 2005 at 03:16:17 AM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

@Detrusor: by the way, my scores for this AR period are 17-71.

   
Dec 14th 2005 at 01:28:44 AM
Name:  

Andrew McCauley

Comments:  

Ooops, double post. Yeah, I've actually seen him at a championship I think. Really good players tend to be quite eccentric so I've found

   
Dec 14th 2005 at 01:26:10 AM
Name:  

Andrew McCauley

Comments:  

Nice of you to say "Andrew's on the way", but I think that's a while off- isn't the hardest hurdle to get sub-60 expert?

Top 100 would be nice though, considering before 911 this year I just scraped into sub-100 with 3-20-76 that had stood since february last year (and on 911, I was far from reverant for the 4 year anniversary, and celebrated by playing minesweeper), and now I can actually contemplate top 100

   
Dec 14th 2005 at 01:23:46 AM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

@Andrew: I haven't played for a while now, last time I played after not playing for a while I was so awkward I couldn't do anything other than simple pushes, not even a simple loop .
Have you heard of Shane Neal? He was my flatmate for a while when he was in Sydney. I don't know if he still plays nowadays, but he said he used to be 3rd in SA. Or you probably have seen him doing baloon animals somewhere .
Good luck for the tourney.

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Dec 13th 2005 at 11:52:08 PM
Name:  

Andrew McCauley (Schu)

Comments:  

@ Benny
I did read that in your profile! I actually played some today, and playing in a tounament on Friday! Darn, I guess now you have my phone number. The sports association is to blame for this lack of privacy, but I'll be the one with the last laugh when VSU comes, their funding is cut and my club is still going strong!! For anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about, google my name.
BTW, the kym andrew mccauley you may have found there is my uncle, who lived in sydney for ages until he moved back here late last year.

   
Dec 13th 2005 at 11:31:31 PM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

@Rodrigo: Thanks for the story on Jason. That was dissapointing, I was for a while happy there was another top-ranked sweeperoo, but well. Anyway now that Dion is no 1 in the world, and Andrew is on his way, that dissapointment is minor .

@Andrew: After googling on you a while, I think there is one more coincidental thing we have in common you should be amazed at which you should have read from my profile .
I don't know if David would consider himself a Sydneysider or not, last I know he was in Brisbane.
If you concentrate on int for a while I'm pretty sure you can take over me before the year ends.

@Hopsing: So what's the story with the girl?

@All: Don't forget to check the Wikipedia 3bv article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3bv
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:3bv

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Dec 13th 2005 at 10:57:56 PM
Name:  

Iguana

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Just had an estimation @ 9.81 after 6.98 (19/28) @ 3.18 3BV/s Shame on me for the error
Think that I finished this game... Do you really think that this performance merit a 0 (zero) ???
Game on the website link...
Happy sweeping

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Dec 13th 2005 at 10:41:19 PM
Name:  

James C

Comments:  

Well it worked.... at least a little bit. Just got a 70! Okay, it was a crappy game on a 133 board. It probably should have been a new record, but I also should have given up for the night half an hour ago. so 70-18 for the AR... so far?

   
Dec 13th 2005 at 09:55:02 PM
Name:  

Levente

Best expert:  

79

Best intermediate:  

22

Comments:  

Gregoire, my AR score is 22-79, and as my hand hurts it will be staying that way...

   
Dec 13th 2005 at 07:41:55 PM
Name:  

James C

Comments:  

@Detrusor: AR scores are 18 - 71. I would really like to trim that down a bit, but I really don't see it happening. (I am trying to trick myself by posting pre-maturely.) Heh!

   
Dec 13th 2005 at 06:33:15 PM
Name:  

Andrew McCauley

Comments:  

@ Dennis Lutken: sub-30 3BV for my 16 was 29!!! grrrrr. I think I should at the least be allowed a 17 score for that.

@ Benny Benjamin: Yeah, adelaide. I guess my e-mail gives it away If I went to flinders uni (the other major adelaide uni) then it would be a bit harder to guess. I'm the best non-sydneysider in australia! You're still #3.

My 3s jump in intermediate is nothing compared to my 7s jump from 71 to 64 in expert in october! I don't think I'll get #3 aussie or top 100 this year though...

I'll definately drop an e-mail some time soon


@ Detrusor: This AR interval so far: 16/66. If you won't count the 16 due to 3bv limits, 19 will have to do.

@ programmers: I'm glad to see the enthusiasm about the idea! Keep it up!!

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Dec 13th 2005 at 06:32:41 PM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

@Benny: Jason started to show a very fast, suspect and consistent progression in his times. In the end of 2004 (maybe november or december, I'm not sure), he even came to the absurd of breaking the then-world record with a 10. By watching the video, one could notice clearly an extremely quick mouse moving and clicking, with incompatible click precision for that speed. After many "background" speculation, Detrusor convinced Jason to send him his history file, and then he could see enough evidence to certainly state him as cheater (like several 11-13 second games in a row, super-fast progression from the 60's to sub-50, etc). Detrusor then made a very creative post here under the name of "International Minesweeper Committee" (a joke about the International Olympic Committee) reporting traces of a prohibited substance ("timerslowdownnolone", if I remember well ) on Jason's anti-dopping test. At the time, there were very few people who wanted to get Jason's explanation before accusing him of cheating. All of it was confirmed by Jason's sudden disappearance. Since then, as far as I know, he never posted here again. I think the archives can be found, but I didn't search for them. One curious thing about this fact is that the name that Detrusor used to make that post was quickly well-accepted and turned into reality with a real IMC nowadays.

   
Dec 13th 2005 at 05:03:58 PM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

@Dmitriy:
Are you Rillian?
I can read Delphi a little bit although I've never programmed in it. The first programming language I learned was Pascal. And Yoni gave me his Delphi source code which is mostly a translation of what I did in VB, although I don't have it at the moment.
From what I know of Delphi, you shouldn't need to do any optimisation.
While my favourite language at the moment is Java, I wouldn't imagine writing a Minesweeper clone in Java.
While the main functionality can be done in Java, if you want to have lots of features you might need to start optimising. C would be very good for the algos, but doing GUI in C would be hell .
At the moment I think either Delphi or C++ would be the best choice for making an "official" Minesweeper platform. This way we can penetrate the Linux world easily through Kylix.

@All:
Anyone know a website/forum post I can read about Jason and how he eventually got caught?
or
@Damien:
Do you have any back up of the guestbook when Jason was caught? I remember you use to keep back up archives of the guestbook.

   
Dec 13th 2005 at 03:34:48 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

Detrusor or Bicou: mktime(params) code contains an error, you need to invert some parameters to make it work properly. i sent you an email.

   
Dec 13th 2005 at 01:19:34 PM
Name:  

Grégoire Duffez

Comments:  

For this time, you'll have to send me via email or write here your times of the AR period.

I have to find out what's going on with AR and with the history upload.

For arbiter (oh! this word isn't censored?) users, I will enable the upload of your .dat histories soon, so that you can participate on the clone rankings. I have to get the help of my brother to do this, but this won't be long, and will be done most probably before Xmas, as well as the AR/upload fix

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Dec 13th 2005 at 11:06:40 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

Hello Everyone!

I'm proud to announce: the second Budapest Minesweeper Tournament will be held on 25th February, 2006!!!

Everyone's invited!
There'll be a nonosweeper part, too, so practice on that as well!
See You All Here!!!

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Dec 13th 2005 at 10:14:25 AM
Name:  

James

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

21

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

So I just found this website and I'm amazed at how fast some of these times are! What do I have to do to get on y'alls rankings?

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Dec 13th 2005 at 06:55:33 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

@Benny: yes, i did some researches of Andrew's indexes and i may tell that the formulas are easy to implement into the counters engine. You may see what i got in my small research article.

about programming language, i am tend to use my beloved Delphi5 while that is not problem to switch to C or Java.

as for 3bv wiki page, i already have read it and i'd like to read the history of "omg, what if i count all needed left clicks to solve the board?"

sorry i am quite busy now , i will send you email as soon as i can.

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Dec 13th 2005 at 05:18:01 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

@E : Turned out?!

He was obvious cheater from the beginning.

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Dec 13th 2005 at 04:20:26 AM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

So how did the story go with Jason. How did he get caught? Anywhere I can read the story?

   
Dec 13th 2005 at 01:04:49 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Benny: Yeah, Jason turned out to be a cheater.

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 07:53:39 PM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

@Dmitriy:
My email is on my profile, have a look at the Wikipedia discussion page on 3BV for the link to my profile, the link is in one of my previous posts. (I'm trying to get you to take a look at the Wikipedia page. )
What programming language are we talking about here? I don't think we need optimised code for Minsweeper, even if it is in Java . I did the first 3BV counter in VB using very simple algo (Recursive Boundary Fill, no optimisation whatsoever) and it was basically instant.
Unless what you want is to generate a certain 3BV range fast, I'd say don't worry about optimisation, it's better to keep it simple and easy to understand.
If you want to keep track of the openings/border squares as Andrew suggested, you can give me a description of your algo or code and I'll give a suggestion on how to add it to your code.

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 06:57:21 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

@Coolio: just a few practice..

@Benny: i have quite fast code that calculates 3BV. what's your email? i may send you my code to check.. it's quite good to have optimized code as the board generation procedure should be fast, so, maybe there is something to optimize more..

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Dec 12th 2005 at 06:27:16 PM
Name:  

Steve

Best expert:  

Can't beat it

Best intermediate:  

112

Best beginner:  

15

Comments:  

I'm so bad, I don't even know what im doing here

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 06:15:29 PM
Name:  

Coolio Carllio Minesweeper Newbie

Best expert:  

257

Best intermediate:  

61

Best beginner:  

8

Comments:  

As everyone can see, I am very inexperienced. My intermediate/beginner times i guess are ok, but I've only beaten expert once. Do any of you minesweeper gurus (people who got, like, 60 seconds on expert) have any tips for me? Thanks.

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Dec 12th 2005 at 05:12:38 PM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

@Andrew:
I haven't been checked my ranking for a while , So while I wouldn't be surprised if I'm no longer 3rd ranked sweeperoo, I didn't know you were aiming for it.
Hopefully you get it before the year ends, since you're so close to it . It's long overdue to have more than sweeperoo in the top 100 again. Just before I got squeezed out of the top 100 there were 3.
BTW, you need more than 1 sec to take my place, unless that one sec is your expert 64->63. If your 1 sec was 16->15 or 2->1 you'll still be ranked under me. So for the rest of the year forget about beginner, concentrate on expert and intermediate instead. Since you just had a 3s jump on int, concentrate more on int. If you get close to the dreamboard you should be able take over me easily. Drop me an email. My address is still the same as the one on the profile.
BTW, as you can see from my profile, I'm in Sydney, whereabout are you? Adelaide?
All you suggested about 3BV shouldn't be hard to do in a program, from my memory of the program I did, it just needs some minor adjustments. I don't know how others count 3BV in their programs, but it still shoudln't be hard to do.

@Hopsing:
So how was that cup of coffee...?

@All:
Talking about sweeperoos,I remember there was once a once a Jason Tran, what happened to him?
Turned out to be a fraud?
Please have a look at the wikipedia 3BV article and have a look at the discussion, and what Robert already said.

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 01:49:05 PM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

18x2

Best beginner:  

2x3

Comments:  

Well Gilles Personally I don't think it's that bad. Clearly it's too much, but 81 flags is... ok

I've always practiced the brutal style with very fast clicking and a lot of flagging. Some months ago I could see my game was going nowhere so I started to play a little slower and reduce the flagging. That helped me to break the 70. Yesterday and today I went back to my old style, fast and very ineffcient but record breaking

Now i just gotta balance it again and hopefully break the record once more within a month or so

That said I must admit I'm very impressed with your style. The 17 you have is just brilliant, very cool and fast. I would've put a flag or 40 more on that 60 of yours but still very impressive how you managed it

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 12:54:14 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

My parents are upset with my obsessive minesweeper playing, so I probably won't be able to play until vacation... They will also try to block my access to minesweeper sites... so until then, bye. Hopefully I will be able to submit my AR times (21-82) when the AR submission is back up.

Happy Sweeping!

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 12:10:09 PM
Name:  

chill

Comments:  

Nice ones Rasmus! Too bad that wasn't a 63. But is it just me, or is that some serious overflagging? I play a lot slower than you do. Maybe I'm just an underflagger with some luck Congrats

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 11:51:09 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

@Rasmus: very nice

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 07:45:22 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Best expert:  

66,63 ----> 64,07

Comments:  

D*mn I did it again!

Just thought I'd sweep a bit after I got home from work. Finished 2 games in 83 and 80 so I was pretty far from full speed. Then all of the sudden a nice 133 comes along and pow!

Some mistakes but much nicer than the 66. Vid below...

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Dec 12th 2005 at 07:01:33 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

yes, i saw empty post too, for a while.. and then boom!

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 06:59:29 AM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

Bah..... now both show up... Feel free to delete these last two posts, Damien ;).

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 06:58:55 AM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

Hmm... weird.. I wanted to post this message, but it showed up as empty. Another try:

"as you see i am an absolute beginner. Anyone got some more tips? like 1-2-1 is always a mine at the 2???"

Nope, it's *never* next to the 2. There are always mines next to the 1s.

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 06:54:55 AM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

"as you see i am an absolute beginner. Anyone got some more tips? like 1-2-1 is always a mine at the 2???"

Nope, it's *never* next to the 2. There are always mines next to the 1s.

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 06:54:53 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

@Andrew: Under 30 3bv... What is the 3bv? Just curious!

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 05:49:04 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Andrew you ve got to ask "MUMMY WHY HAS HE GOT REC ON 26 3BV AND I HAVENT?!" ppl

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Dec 12th 2005 at 05:11:09 AM
Name:  

Peter

Best expert:  

240

Best intermediate:  

90

Best beginner:  

16

Comments:  

as you see i am an absolute beginner. Anyone got some more tips? like 1-2-1 is always a mine at the 2???

   
Dec 12th 2005 at 01:08:32 AM
Name:  

Andrew McCauley

Best intermediate:  

16

Comments:  

Except it's under 30 3bv. Aaaaaargh. I just don't quite get why they're being excluded. I get them at least reasonably often, but I haven't even seen an unfinished expert under 100 3bv, and I get clone to auto-record low (and high) 3bvs.

   
Dec 11th 2005 at 08:31:54 PM
Name:  

Andrew McCauley (Schu)

Best expert:  

64.72

Best intermediate:  

19.42->16.85 last night

Best beginner:  

2.36

Comments:  

Only a second off the pace, watch out Benny!!

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Dec 11th 2005 at 03:17:20 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Best expert:  

82 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 81,65

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

wooo! this was nice game, of course, and the best moment in it was that i finished it in the top-right corner and that was pretty cool clicking on last (corner) cell and seeing 081 on the timer.. look at the replay and you will understand..

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Dec 11th 2005 at 02:16:20 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

Wow, Rasmus! that was really speedy game!
even more mis-flags then in my games.. can't be

   
Dec 11th 2005 at 01:37:41 PM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Best expert:  

67,18 ----> 66,63

Comments:  

WOO! What a great way to finish the week! Ugliest game ever, more mistakes than I can count and even finished it on a 50/50 3BV 145...

Link to vid below...

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Dec 11th 2005 at 12:52:53 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

The upload function isn't working. Greg's aware of the problem and wants to fix it when he gets back to his place.

   
Dec 11th 2005 at 11:40:43 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Is anybody else having problems with submitting times for the AR??? I tried a couple of days ago and again today, but the list where I'm supposed to find my name is so narrow and there's 'nothing' in it. I don't know how to submit times but Detrusor, if you read this, if possible for you to just note my times they are 13-56 and I'm pretty sure I won't find time to improve. I play very little and the 56 is the only game I've finished. My second best on int are a few 16s, so this 13 was nice. I tried it again and got 10.47 on the first UPK try. 31 3bv, ONE opening. It was quite an easy board but I just am not at a high level right now - otherwise I might have been able to get an 11 on that board.

   
Dec 11th 2005 at 10:23:04 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

@Daniel and Dmitriy:

   
Dec 10th 2005 at 11:36:37 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Best expert:  

82,78 >>>>> 82,67 on 135 bv

Comments:  

hang on ...

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Dec 10th 2005 at 11:23:29 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Best expert:  

2,11 3bv/s >>> 2,20 3bv/s

Comments:  

on 205 3 bv board

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Dec 10th 2005 at 01:35:42 AM
Name:  

Andrew McCauley (Schu)

Comments:  

About this whole 3bv vs 3bv/s thing, I think it would be very interesting to have a minesweeper program record 3 things in addition to the usual:
1. Amount of openings (just the openings, not the size)
2. Amount of squares next to an opening that aren't openings themselves
3. Amount of squares that aren't next to openings, but aren't mines.

Of coarse, 1+3=3bv, but I think it would be interesting to play with these variables for a while, trying to balance them so that you get a value (lets call it M3bv (modified 3bv)) so that M3bv/s has the least statistical variance in terms of standard deviations etc.

This I thought of when Elmar thought Ebv would be good, where Ebv is 3bv + no. of openings (again) seeing you had to usually click on the borders anyway. Now, it would probably have to be done for each level seperately, and also for NF and F styles seperately, and with many varying styles, but I'd love to see something like that, because Elmar is right, you usually have to click on at least one non-3bv square to open up that opening, and the openings should be treated differently from the other 3bv squares. I think this would be very easy to implement in a sweeper clone (to automatically go to history), and would yield a good value.

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Dec 10th 2005 at 01:16:06 AM
Name:  

Andrew McCauley (Schu)

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

19

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@ Benny Benjamin: Hello, nice to meet another sweeperoo. When I read your profile, and your description of your 64, I thought that was a pretty big co-incidence, us both being Australian and us both having 64 exp and that being an outlier for both of us (well, I have a 66 now, but next is 70s and 71s, and at the time, my best was 71). So there you go. Now, though I'm gunning for your spot as the no. 3 sweeperoo, I know I'll never take your place in the history of minesweeper

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Dec 10th 2005 at 12:41:54 AM
Name:  

Robert Benditz

Comments:  

Here's my take on the Wikipedia 3BV page:
1. Merging it with the Minesweeper Wikipedia page
I disagree. The Minesweeper page is already very large and information about 3BV is very special.
2. Removing the history
I disagree, but I don't care too much. There's nothing wrong with the history of 3BV being part of the Wikipedia 3BV page. In 5 years someone might to want to read about it.

I strongly encourage you to work on that page. If you are a native-speaker I'd like you at least to look for spelling and grammar mistakes. Furthermore some information about the limited significance for flaggers would be very useful but an experienced sweeper could certainly contribute a lot.

Consider my mind now occupied by that marvellous girl again.

   
Dec 9th 2005 at 10:57:08 PM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Best expert:  

2.05 3bv/s-->2.09 3bv/s-->2.16 3bv/s

Comments:  

Both were today... 100 on a 209 and 96 on a 205.

   
Dec 9th 2005 at 01:42:21 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

some sub30 int stats:
20x001 max_bv=31
21x009 max_bv=44
22x014 max_bv=47
23x018 max_bv=70
24x059 max_bv=59
25x090 max_bv=69
26x119 max_bv=70
27x161 max_bv=76
28x221 max_bv=76
29x308 max_bv=82

   
Dec 9th 2005 at 01:38:26 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Best intermediate:  

1000 sub 30s games ! roar!

Comments:  

just did my 1000th sub30 game on intermediate level. it was pretty 1337:

Time=25,20
3BV=62
3BV/s=2,56
IOE=0,49
RPI=97,46
Ranks=123rd time and 101st 3bv/s
Total Int Games=4381

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Dec 9th 2005 at 10:09:17 AM
Name:  

Robert Benditz

Comments:  

levente, cant go into detail here, but u can join the minesweeper irc channel if u like.
there is plenty of information

   
Dec 9th 2005 at 06:59:20 AM
Name:  

Levente

Comments:  

@Benditz: very excellent; do tell us how it goes. Is she cute? Is she sweet? Can she play NF?

   
Dec 9th 2005 at 06:35:09 AM
Name:  

Gustaf

Comments:  

@Hopsing: You go girl!!!!!111

   
Dec 9th 2005 at 06:33:27 AM
Name:  

Rilian

Comments:  

@Hopsing:

   
Dec 9th 2005 at 06:03:43 AM
Name:  

Robert Benditz

Comments:  

ok wikipedia article, whatever, who cares...
I just asked that sweet french girl from my university if she wants to drink a cup of coffee with me and she said yes in half an hour so right now I am wasting my time (like usual but this time with an aim) until we actually will have a cup of coffee together ... that's it for now - cya in the channel folks

@gustaf: that does not mean that our relationship has become meaningless to me. I still love you.
@wiki 3bv article: I will comment on it when my mind is clear again

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 10:19:36 PM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

That's right Levente, and I should have said positive correlation instead of negative too .

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 09:15:56 PM
Name:  

Levente

Comments:  

@Benny: heh, what I meant (and you probably surmised) is that 3bv and 3bv/s are *directly* proportional. My theory is basically that of yours, that high 3bv boards tend to be "smoother", with more one and two mine patterns, and also fewer "extra" mines... with the extra blank spaces of low 3bv boards, there tend to be mines that are buried behind, or to the side of, the main flow of play, and this takes a disproportionately long time to solve... while for high 3bv boards, the mines tend to be distributed more evenly, leading to fewer blank spaces, but also fewer mines that are out of the way.

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 08:52:46 PM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Levente, Yes I've noticed that my self when I was trying to get some data to support the indicative value for 3BV.

I think the reason is that when the 3BV is high, chances are the patterns we need to work at (look, analyse and click) are clustered closer together. This allows for smooth transition as we work through the board.

When 3BV is low, the opposite happens, the patterns are spread apart, and the more frequent big opening acts like jumps which doesn't allow for a smooth transition of pattern analysis, we have to adjust our eye focus and decide where to concentrate on next and have to jump the mouse pointer as well.

So while those clusters of empty spaces reduces 3BV and thus the amount of work we have to do, when it comes to 3BV/s these actually acts more like speed bumps.
i.e. In terms of 3BV/s, high 3BV is a smooth toll ride, while low 3BV is a bumpy road.

This is just my rough guess though, so take it with a grain of salt (or perhaps a shaker full ).

It's a pitty Stephan is not around much anymore, since he's a self confessed "statistics freak".
We can gather some data from many players and then do statistical analysis, this will settle the question of whether or not 3BV/s and 3BV are negatively correlated as you said.
And if it is decide on the appropriateness of quadratic (rather than linear) regression analysis for 3BV vs time.
And if this "acceleration" is found to be reasonably constant, we can amend 3BV to account for this.

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 07:50:38 PM
Name:  

Levente

Comments:  

welcome, Sheyne, to the community! How are you at beginner and intermediate? Do you play flagging or non?

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 07:01:01 PM
Name:  

Sheyne

Best expert:  

99

Comments:  

Newby .... looking forward to attending a competition.

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Dec 8th 2005 at 06:28:00 PM
Name:  

Levente

Comments:  

regarding that Wikipedia page... someone, please, come up with a good explanation for *why* 3bv and 3bv/s tend to be inversely proportional. Look at Dion, for example: he's got a 39.52, and a 4.48 3bv/s, but nowhere near on the same game!

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 05:23:59 PM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Oh, and since I'm here, while I have congratulated Dion Tiu as the number one sweeperoo a long time ago on my AR profile, I believe I have not congratulated him as the number one in the world yet.
So Dion, belated CONGRATULATION!!!

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 05:10:30 PM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since I posted at this guestbook (a loooong.... while). I just thought I'd draw your attention on the Wikipedia entry for 3BV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3bv
particularly the discussion page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:3bv

The article was originally written by our Robert Benditz. Robert disagrees with me regarding merging the article into the main Minesweeper article. And he also insisted to keep having a history section.

If anyone of you here decides to edit the article, I'll leave it up to you who to agree with .

Perhaps we should have a discussion here as a community as to what should be in Wikipedia (In regards to Minesweeper ofcourse, not the whole Wikipedia ).

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 05:08:12 PM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Best expert:  

84x2-->84x3

Comments:  

84.21 on a 151... bleh...

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 04:52:41 PM
Name:  

Levente

Comments:  

wow, that's awfully cheap airfare... a comparable distance in the US is about $200, which is like 160 euros.

too bad my passport is currently being renewed; I'd love to go to Budapest. When is the tournament? If it's after March, I may have a shot... depends on how quickly the Hungarian consulate gets off their asses!

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 01:33:20 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

i would like to encourage you all to think about attending gergely's tournament when he announces it formally. the earlier you look at tickets, the better the prices. i can fly to budapest from london for 55 euros if i book now. (it helps that i plan to stay longer if i go, as flying on friday and monday make things expensive). the cheapest airlines i know are wizzair.com and easyjet.com, both go to budapest from most major european cities. think about it.

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 10:52:40 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

accepted

finished 3 exp games today.. looks like a record

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 09:45:22 AM
Name:  

chill

Comments:  

Dmitry, would you just accept the fact that no-one likes it when some-one else speaks for him. That is a really annoying habbit, please try to accept this and consider it next time you want to post. It's not the first time you answer questions that are asked to some-one else.

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 09:32:14 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Best expert:  

67,67 -----> 67,18

Comments:  

ARGH!

3BV = 155

So close, but no cigar...

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 08:23:08 AM
Name:  

Grégoire Duffez

Comments:  

I changed the passwords of the ftp and the SQL database of my site, but my host is pretty slow in applying the changes. Without correct connection to the database, the list appears blank, but it'll be soon fixed, once they'll wake up

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Dec 8th 2005 at 06:24:36 AM
Name:  

Levente

Comments:  

so that's what happened to the forum, but what about the main site?

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 06:02:21 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

Detrusor: you are stupid0. i wrote here exactly what you said on the irc channel last evening and i just told the way how the passwords are stored in all forum engines. should i post the channel log or you will just shut up in normal way?

you said that you, by your stupidity, installed hacked module for your bb forum and only now found that it was hacked. i do not care that you hide behind the phpbb developer's back and barking out of there. and i do not care you are so dumb that only now decided to watch the security reports.

   
Dec 8th 2005 at 05:41:23 AM
Name:  

Grégoire Duffez

Comments:  

stupid Dmitriy, don't EVER talk in my name!
You don't know what happened on the forum
you don't know what i did and installed
you don't know what phpbb Administrators told me

=> So shut the F|_|ck up, once for all!

When I say that some passwords have been sent, IT IS TRUE. Don't talk about your sh1tty supposed knowledge about phpBB related code: phpBB administrators know better about that than you will ever know: just shut up!

To sum up, for all people who recently logged on my forum (i'd say for the last 6 months) your password you registered with IS known, and in clear way, not just the crypted part, whatever dmitriy will tell you! Passwords have been hacked BEFORE being encrypted

PS: don't read what rillllian will say about md5 and phpBB, it is bullsh1t.

PS: never read what he says and just ignoring him helps much, by the way

@dmitriy: you don't know, you shut up! respect this simple principle

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Dec 7th 2005 at 05:30:25 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

Down to 22-82 this period...the 82 was on a 163 board, for a 3BV/s ratio of 1.99...

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 03:33:20 PM
Name:  

Levente

Comments:  

thanks, Dmitriy, for the info... dang hax0rz!!

Today, I've finally gotten my second 98. Not that 98 is a particularly exceptional score; in fact it lies square in the middle of my bell curve. I have about fifteen each of 97 and 99. Just a fluke.

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 02:48:33 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

Detrusor installed a hacked module for phpBB forum and all private information was send to hackers.

while your passwords are stored in md5 way and the session is opened by md5(password), you may sleep well. there is not way to convert md5-ed string to initial password and no one will use his cpu resources to bruteforce a single password from minesweepers's forum

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 02:31:03 PM
Name:  

Levente

Best expert:  

79

Best intermediate:  

22

Comments:  

anyone have any idea what's going on with planet-minesweeper? I got an email from Gregoire this morning telling me to change my forum password, and the clone and active rankings uploads still aren't working...

dang it, I want to upload my 22/79!

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 01:51:08 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

lotr ttt = lotr 2... ok

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 01:49:07 PM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Comments:  

LOL! What's the difference? It was The Two Towers

Sub 70 fourth day in a row btw

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 01:07:53 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

lotr 3 or lotr ttt ?

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 10:34:18 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Best intermediate:  

18,86 -----> 18,32

Comments:  

I was eating dinner and watching LOTR:TTT when I got this On a 32. Guess it should have been a 17

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 06:53:45 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Comments:  

Post it here, James (link below).

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Dec 7th 2005 at 06:48:48 AM
Name:  

James C.

Comments:  

Do I need to do something unusual to get my best ever updated, or is e-mailing detrusor still sufficient?

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 06:26:06 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

hey, Marc.. nice to see you again

   
Dec 7th 2005 at 05:47:31 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Hey Marc youre alive!

Grats on your scores, nice to see youre still in game

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Dec 7th 2005 at 05:39:18 AM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Best expert:  

47

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1!

Comments:  

Heh.. Just got a 1 on beginner. I'd gotten a 1 on a 9x9 before, but this is my first on an 8x8. I got it on some old version of Arbiter, that I somehow have installed on this PC. It's the only version I have here, which is why I used it. What was the stance on records gotten on other versions again?

I've been playing a little again lately, although not nearly as much as I used to. My 'records' are 1/13/56. The 13 was really nice, but other than that, my speed isn't all that anymore .

   
Dec 6th 2005 at 09:40:09 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

@somebody in the community (I think Vladimir Orlov, but I might be wrong) whose birthday is the seventh of December

   
Dec 6th 2005 at 04:12:08 PM
Name:  

Levente

Best intermediate:  

22.05

Comments:  

played some intermediate, just to try to get my customary 24 in the active rankings... got the 24, and also a very nice 22.05 on a 3bv=40; my best score in two months, except for that fluke 18.83.

   
Dec 6th 2005 at 03:02:06 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

yeah.. under IE all works nice, you only forgot to set onmouseover() for images.. as for my beloved FF, i guess i disabled java scripting, that is why it does not show to me

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Dec 6th 2005 at 02:48:59 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

thanks for the javascript testing...this is the script that was really giving me problems. i'd appreciate christoph and dmitry if you'd look at this. link below.

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Dec 6th 2005 at 01:49:03 PM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Comments:  

Should be working again now...

I've gone sub 70 everyday for 3 days in a row now, very uplifting And have an 88 (20-6 total so far for this period, but I'm dying to beat that expert again

   
Dec 6th 2005 at 12:29:23 PM
Name:  

Levente

Best expert:  

this AR period: 79.95@1.76 :-)

Comments:  

couldn't stay away; decided to play some more... I knew it was good when I finished, but since I keep the counter window over the timer (to minimise distraction!), and the clone crashed, I knew only that it was "2nd best", so I knew I had at worst an 83. Whoo. The active period is young, this may be a lucrative one :-) My second clone sub-80.

now why doesn't planet-minesweeper come up for me? Anyone else getting an error?

   


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