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Feb 19th 2007 at 10:14:02 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

oops i forgot the link ....

I wanted to write into the previous post also about things said during the days i had been away, but since that got pretty long i decided to split it. ****! why can't i express myself with fewer words....

Well done Ian! Actually, I am one of those that prefers winmine's games to the clones too. And I have met several others. I don't think saying they are easier would be correct (mathematecally speaking if you want :D), but I guess they are simply different. Maybe our way of play is more adapt to them, than to the clones' games, while it might be the opposite for other people... I still am of the opinion that the clones are merely clones, hard as they might try they cannot capture the original game's essence.

About the tourney: Last week i finally got my swedish permit renewal, that means that I am "a respectable Albanian citizen" who studies in a EU country for at least another year. That means I should be able to get a Visa (maybe even if I say I am going to a minesweeper tournament ). Thanks to Rogen and Damien for the tips. I guess I have some more (from other personal experiences ) which could be added to the page.

First I have some doubts on some things written in that page Damien. I strongly doubt that all "countries formerly of the USSR except Russia don't require a visa", and also the same reference to Yugoslavia is a bit strange. I checked the www.mfa.gov.hu site and according to it, besides the now EU countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia) and Croatia, all the other countries that are comprised into those definitions ARE NOT MENTIONED in the list of countries that are entitled to visa-free travel to Hungary.

@Zhang: I am sorry to say that the best thing to have when requesting a Visa, is other Visas in your Passport. If you have already travelled to other countries, and respected all deadlines, than you have a good chance of getting it. It's a bit like the "you need work experience to get a job, but you need a job to get work experience" thing .

*"7. The competition is only a few days, so they will probably not ask for details of your finance. It is a good idea to take a copy of a bank statement"
Where I come from showing a bank statement is A MUST! No matter how many days are you going to stay, the more money you have in that account the better the chances . I hope your father has a lot of (erm, clean) money Zhang .


*What also helps a lot, is if you are employed. Then you get a letter from your employer stating for how long you have been working there and your salary. [For some "unknown" reasons most of the people who apply for a visa have been employed for quite some time and "have" very good salaries ]

*I don't know if this applies to any of us, but it is a plus if one is married (and also not travelling with his spouse). In their [stupid/sick] logic, if you have a good job and/or you are married you have good reasons to come back to your country (and it's less probable you'll decide to wander around in theirs)...

DISCLAIMER!
@Zhang: the prevous tips were just for general information, not intended for you in particular. I don't want to be responsable for the any important decisions you might take in your life

*"8. ~ 10 days later they will give you the tourist visa. If you pay an extra ~ 15 USD they will do it on the same day."
I suggest that should be changed to "~ 10 days later they will give you an answer for your application"...

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Feb 19th 2007 at 10:05:00 AM
Name:  

joni

Best expert:  

not 60.09 anymore

Comments:  

Sorry guys, but i think this is gonna get long ...

Where do i start? ah yeah: jaaaaaaam njiiiiiiiiiiishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! FINALLY i took that barrier down! After a typical game of mine on a 138 3BV board, with a couple of obvious 1-2-1 patterns missed, two misflags, and escaping by the skin of my teeth to a suicide attempt at 53secs, I finally got it: 57!!!!
[actually, that is not such a breaking news for some, as it was sometime last week, but i had to pack up, buy stuff at the last minute, etc. etc. so had no time to write anything here] I cannot describe the feeling of relieveness at that moment, i felt a huge load come off my shoulders...
Now My quest is finally over, and with this game I have ALSO fulfilled my ultimate minesweeper goal, and NO it was not breaking OMB .

I remember looking at the rankings in March last year, when I handn't gotten on them yet and my best exp was 79. Since I couldn't find any albanians, I tried to have a look at how well my neighbors were doing (a balcanic habit I guess I felt some kind of responsability, being the only representant of my country, so I wanted to have a decent ranking. I knew no one would've expected from me to be amongst the top sweepers, and no one would've pretend from me to match the Yugoslaves (you can put an "ex-" in front of that, or any other name if you prefer), the Romanians or Bulgarians either. [They've always been way better than us, when it comes to Math Olympics, Informatics Olympics, Chess or whatever...] So my goals from that point on, were set relative to the Italians and the Greeks. First I decided not to submit any scores unless I was in front of some of them at least. I reckoned a sub-20 and sub-70 would have been enough. In July, when i finally got my sub-70, it was a 63, so with my 2-17-63 I entered the rankings precisely in the middle of both the Italians (4 in front/4 behind) and the Greeks (1 in front/1 behind).

At that moment again I looked at their best times. Luca Vezzoni's 14 was something absolutely unthinkable, Vincenzo Ostuni's 57, and Themis Kessaris' 58 looked somewhat closer but still beyond that magic minute barrier. Since then I have moved up, little by little, strangely more on int than on exp, and now I can finally say that with this game I have fulfilled all my goals. I have now matched the Italians' 14s and 57s, and I have done slightly better than Themis. I AM satisfied! I know that younger players from these countries will come and get passed me eventually, and I'd even say it would be nice if I actually become some sort of inspiration for them, the same way these other guys, I've never known, have been for me.

Though this is not a definite retirement statement, it is some sort of it. I will definitely not sweep as much as I have done in the last few months. A lower expert time might be nice, but as I said, I REALLY am satisfied with these ones I have at the moment.


joni

   
Feb 19th 2007 at 09:42:01 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

@Ian: thanks for uploading!

Notes (if anyone cares):

Although the squares on vistamine are 19x19 pixels, it is possible to drag the corners to enlarge the grid. In making the skin, I enlarged the board to 32x32 to allow for somewhat decent reduction to 16x16. It didn't work too well; for some reasons, the 4 and 5 are much smaller than the 1, 2, and 3. The 6, 7, and 8 are from the first skin I put together a week ago by cutting numbers out of the 19x19 squares without resizing them. That's why those numbers appear so big. The actual vistamine has animations (there are examples on youtube) and a cross-board gradient, both of which cannot be effectively captured on a Minesweeper X skin. In addition, squares become highlighted as you run the cursor across them and red x's appear when you do excess chords, making gameplay much more irritating and slow on the actual vistamine than on Minesweeper X with vista skin.

VC: MYVX Mynesweeper Vista X?

   
Feb 19th 2007 at 08:26:08 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

who can send me a Minesweeper X and vista skin?

my mail:137516@qq.com

thx!!

   
Feb 19th 2007 at 08:14:03 AM
Name:  

Ian

Best expert:  

65.70 on vistaskin

Comments:  

I've uploaded the skin onto my Geocities (attached) My best time is 65 which I am pleased with (64 realtime).

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Feb 19th 2007 at 08:03:35 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@Dennis: Rasmus is thinking of coming too.

To get the Vista skin (without getting Vista) you need to download Minesweeper X by Curtis Bright. Arjadre made the skin, so hopefully he can provide that.

   
Feb 19th 2007 at 07:54:10 AM
Name:  

Dennis

Comments:  

It seems that Elmar got a hold of the Vista skin somehow. I was kind of hoping somebody would post a link here, since I am very interested in trying out that skin as well.

   
Feb 19th 2007 at 05:57:45 AM
Name:  

WP

Comments:  

And congrats Ian! (my memory's failing... )

   
Feb 19th 2007 at 05:56:07 AM
Name:  

WP

Comments:  

Switch to the Vista skin when journalists are around taking photos? lol

   
Feb 19th 2007 at 01:52:03 AM
Name:  

Jake

Comments:  

@ian - congrats! I LCed a 38 the other day on Winmine... otherwise my best is 42.

@manu - regarding two games in a row with the same time. I've done it once Clone097 in 2005: 26.86 on a 68, twice in a row. Same 3bv, even!

I may very well have done it other times... don't recall, though.

   
Feb 18th 2007 at 02:01:00 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Ian: Way to be retired!

@Gergely: I played on the Vista Skin for the first time today (thx Arj). I must say it's impossible to play competitively on that skin. I can hardly get sub70 while my usual avrg is around 55! I really can't see how we should play a decent tourney on that skin. Isn't there any way we can get around this..?

   
Feb 18th 2007 at 11:48:14 AM
Name:  

Ian

Best expert:  

56.50 --> 52 (winmine)

Comments:  

Yes, you read it correctly. As part of me retiring properly, I decided not only to play on winmine, but also to not record any more games at all. Guess what happens I do however have a conjecture that winmine generates easier games. It always seems to me that I get better times on winmine than on any clones, so bleh. I also counted the 3BV and the board was a 129, with 17 openings

Screenshot attached

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Feb 18th 2007 at 11:02:42 AM
Name:  

Banzhaf

Comments:  

ok I'm now sure that I am not going to Budapest.
then we'll see us in Vienna in August without much doubt

   
Feb 18th 2007 at 06:22:43 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Tommy: I'm telling you no one gives a ****. I traveled through Holland and even Austria when I was 17. Dunno, if any of my friends were 18 at the time. Anyways, Christoph could always take you by the hand if you really should need an adult!

   
Feb 18th 2007 at 05:47:15 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@thomas: Chirstoph is addicted to tournaments....even if his hand falls off, he will come.

@reid: no clue. the way microsoft is handling things so far, they probably don't know either.

   
Feb 18th 2007 at 05:42:35 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

@Elmar:
The problem isn't that I or anyone from the community give a shít, but that I might not be alowed to leave my country without someone else over 18, and I don't think that my parents are very keen to go.
I never would have thought that anyone here gives a shít about my age

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Feb 18th 2007 at 03:25:32 AM
Name:  

Rilian

Comments:  

prize will be a legal copy of Windows(R)

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Feb 18th 2007 at 03:04:18 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Wow, with Thommy (if he realizes he lives in Europe and nobody gives a sh*t how old he is), Zhang and Reid we'd already be 8 sub50 players in Budapest! Pretty high class competition.
I suppose Gergely knows the prizes but I thought he was making it surprize...

@JarJar: Where's the skin?!

   
Feb 17th 2007 at 05:28:38 PM
Name:  

reid sinclair

Comments:  

@damien: when will microsoft release what the prizes will be? or, do you have any idea what they will be, as of now?

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Feb 17th 2007 at 12:08:09 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@dennis: elmar was joking. micorosft if helping advertise, pay for location, offer some (unknown) prizes

   
Feb 17th 2007 at 07:51:01 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Oh, and I'm 99% sure that the squares are 19*19, I remember thinking about them taking a prime number :D

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Feb 17th 2007 at 07:49:37 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

AFAIK only at tournaments.

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Feb 17th 2007 at 07:44:30 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Btw is Viennasweeper accepted for records?!

   
Feb 17th 2007 at 06:49:17 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

I made a vista skin for minesweeper x on my dad's new vista computer. The squares are 18x18 pixels (maybe it was 19x19- I forget) instead of 16x16 so everything had to be shrunk down a bit and the numbers are larger in the skin than actual size. I'll upload later.

   
Feb 17th 2007 at 06:23:39 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

He, where can I get one of those for practice? It's not on Curtis' site...

   
Feb 17th 2007 at 05:38:29 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Wtf so we HAVE to play on vista skin

   
Feb 17th 2007 at 03:01:41 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

@Zhang:
neither, we will use a modified version of viennasweeper with a vista skin. (ViennaSweeper is Christophs minesweeper clone, we used it for the last international tournament in vienna.)
Microsoft told us that we could use whatever we wanted, as long as it looked like vista.

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Feb 16th 2007 at 07:11:40 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

we must use minsweeper vista in the meeting, not clone , right?

   
Feb 16th 2007 at 07:02:45 PM
Name:  

Kat

Best intermediate:  

3.006

Comments:  

finally a sup 3 on int

   
Feb 16th 2007 at 10:23:58 AM
Name:  

manuel heider

Comments:  

just did 49.738 and a 49.737 in a row...
did anyone ever get two games in a row that were the same ?
mfg

   
Feb 16th 2007 at 10:06:57 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Well, a lot of that sounds tempting but I don't think I'll make it to the top 10 and I don't think I can afford going on my own, so... Sorry guys. Not this time.

   
Feb 16th 2007 at 09:13:22 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

You sure thats not the treatment the top25 get elmar?

VC=4U4K
For you fork?

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Feb 16th 2007 at 08:58:02 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

All top10 players are flown in, have suites at the local 4 seasons, get as much booz and hookers as they want and good old Bill picks up the tab.

   
Feb 16th 2007 at 08:54:31 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

About tournament... You say that Microsoft in Hungary have agreed to sponsor the tournament. What exactly is meant by that?

   
Feb 16th 2007 at 08:09:26 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

OK, I have one more question before I ask my parents:
Is it possible for me to leave the country alone as a minor (16) and how? If possible, I wouldn't want my parents to come, as they probably wouldn't want to stay over night... And I would like to attend the Nono tourney!
Problem is, how do I get them to let me spend the night in hungary... But at any rate it would be great if I knew exactly what I needed to know in order to be prepared for asking them...
Help would be greatly appreciated!!!

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Feb 16th 2007 at 05:36:52 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

I made a tournament page....details about the announcement, players attending, visa/hotel help.

http://www.minesweeper.info/MicrosoftAgrees.php

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Feb 16th 2007 at 04:10:38 AM
Name:  

Rogen

Comments:  

@Zhang: again - you only need to know which hotel you should choose to live with other players. As Gergely said the hotel is not defined now because number of players is unknown. Wait until number of people will be known. Don't panic!!!

   
Feb 16th 2007 at 01:54:25 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

I need that:

Name and address of host or company, in case of company the name of the contact person. If not applicable, give name of hotel or temporary address in Hungary

   
Feb 16th 2007 at 01:47:22 AM
Name:  

Rilian

Comments:  

lol Rogen. not telling about minesweeper is quite important notice

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Feb 15th 2007 at 09:41:25 PM
Name:  

Rogen

Comments:  

@Zhang: I also need visa, so that's what i usually do:
1. Buy air ticket and book hotel (at first time i booked cheapest one but lived with others in Hotel Griff Junior).
2. Buy insurance policy for period when you'll be in Hungary.
3. Make copies of your passport, booking voucher, air ticket. Take 2 your photos and approximately 35 eur and go to Hungarian Embassy.
4. At the embassy you should fill form for visa, type that you need tourist visa and don't tell anybody that you're going to minesweeper championship (seriosly!).
5. It tooks 2-3 days here to wait until they will give you tourist visa.

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 04:20:08 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Zhang: The meeting itself is rather informal. Microsoft is the sponsor but Gergely organizes it. So all you need to do is send an email to Gergely or state here that you want to participate.

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 03:53:25 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

should i register to the organiger -- mircosoft?

or damien can help me to do this?

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 03:39:11 PM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Hmm wouldnt recommend that to you, but try to find some connection in embassy...thats how it works here :)

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 03:16:37 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

they must think : this reason look like flimflam...

btw, if i decide to join the meeting ,when i must start to prepare these thing? just now?

sorry for my poor english again...

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 03:12:01 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

so i should tell them that i want to join a minesweeper meeting in Hungary?

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 12:45:10 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

You do not need permission to visit Hungary if you are from these countries: (you must have a passport):

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Uruguay, countries that were the USSR (Russia needs a visa), countries that were Yugoslavia (Serbia and Monetengro need visas).

If you do not have a passport, contact your home embassy. (Example: It costs $90 in Canada and takes 3 weeks).

If you need a visa, contact the Hungarian embassy in your country. They will help you. There are many types of visa depending how long you want to stay.

Type B visa: You can stay < 5 days.
Type C visa: Visit many times but stay < 90 days.
Type D-7 visitor visa: You must have a letter from a person in Hungary to invite you (This is difficult because the Hungarian must prove he wrote the letter before you can apply...there is not enough time for you to do this unless you are a relative).

Gergely or I will help you find a place to stay in Hungary. If China asks where you will stay (before they allow you a visa), we can help give you the proof.

I don't know where you stay in China, so I can not help you with the journey. Good luck!

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 11:34:28 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

hmm... i make a joke...

first: what i should do when they ask for my "cousin"?

second: what i should do after i take the visas?

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 11:26:27 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

Zhang, you're funny I don't know where the hungarian embassy can be in china but it's 100% sure they speak some chinese and you don't need any hungarian to deal with the paperwork

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Feb 15th 2007 at 11:18:16 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

come on... i want for a good-hearted man to help me....

really i thirst for to join the meeting..

but i don't know how to join...

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 11:15:40 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

hmm... I have not any cousin...

may be i should find a Chinese minesweeper in Hungary to help me finish this work?

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 11:10:54 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Well yeah, and tell them you are gonna visit your cousins on chinese market in Budapest(I was there many times) otherwise they will not believe you

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 11:10:39 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

sorry for spamming...

can I find a organization to transact the operation in China?

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 11:10:06 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

I can't use Hungarian, only poor English..

can I find a organization to transact the operation?

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 11:07:52 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

I've never go abroad ...

anybody tell me , what i should do?

contact Hungarian embassy ?

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 10:48:20 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Hungarian embassy started issuing visas here so this time Im definitely there

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 10:12:22 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

i want to go... what i should do?

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 08:13:56 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

So far:

1. Gergely Nagy
2. Elmar Zimmermann
3. Roman Gammel
4. Damien Moore
5. Jan Farnik
6. Nik Farnik


(7. Thomas Kolar - If parents say yes)
(8. Christoph Marx - If hand works)
(9. Tobias Banzhaf - Exam same time)
(10. Manuel Heider - Promised to come if <16/04/07 )
(11. Gyula Pap?)
(12. Istvan Kricfalusy?)
(13. Rasmus Jensen?)

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 07:42:51 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

What about kicking intermediate in favor of NF?

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 06:58:30 AM
Name:  

Rogen

Comments:  

People! Join in! I need to know exact location in the middle of March, because I won't get visa without booking of hotel.

@Gergely: what about NF section on sunday too? Badgers will show his 7 cl/s rate

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 06:03:13 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

There will be nonosweeper session as well, but I planned it to sunday. Details coming soon.

BTW, Christoph asked me to mention his problems with his wrist which has a bad inflammation, so he can barely type.
Hope you'll be OK for the competition!

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Feb 15th 2007 at 05:45:36 AM
Name:  

Nikolaj

Comments:  

Both Farniks are coming!
What about tiny nonosweeper competition ?

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Feb 15th 2007 at 05:07:28 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

/me joins in

   
Feb 15th 2007 at 04:11:57 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

@Rogen: As I don't live there I can't tell you if the Hotel Griff Junior has enough rooms for the sweepers. And until all the players declare their will to participate I can't organize anything. Anyway, there's a group discount from 15 persons, so come on people, join in!

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Feb 15th 2007 at 01:31:17 AM
Name:  

Rogen

Comments:  

@ Gergely: do you have any advices about the place to live? I'd like to know all in organization which is different this time comparing to previous. Does Hotel Griff Junior have enough rooms for all "crowd" of professional sweepers?! I hope to see much more sweepers this time. Hopely I won't be only one participant from Russia.

P.S. I already started to prepare, got 49 yesterday - first time after at least month of suc*ing, also got 2nd best 3bv/s on exp

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Feb 14th 2007 at 01:10:24 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Best intermediate:  

4.57 -> 4.70!!

Comments:  

in a 98 board

   
Feb 14th 2007 at 09:17:14 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

@Tam:
I know, it has been a long time since I got a rec... Problem is, that period when I improved so massively from 60 to 47 went at a high cost to my schoolwork, I totally slacked off then and dedicated most of my free time to minesweeper, and I took much too much free time where I should'nt have.
What I didn't do for school before december I had to do in the last 2 1/2 months, and that is not an experience I want to repeat. I still play, and I am still as engaged in the minesweeper community, but I probably wont be able to invest a great deal of time in minesweeper very soon.
I played a lot in the holidays though and got a couple of good estimates, and I have the eeling that I'm on the brink of some breakthrough again. So I hope that I will have 13-45 or sth soon And after blasting a 44 est 52 NF I think I deserve a sub60 as well (I got another 63 lately BTW, its decimal time was the same as its integer time - well, it was easy to remember ).
Another reason that I might have made an inactive impression lately is probably that I have a new laptop where I have ubuntu and windows installed, and as I don't want to link windows to the internet and arbiter doesn't run properly on ubuntu (NF works fine, but he doesn't react to chords properly, which I imagine may have something to do with the event manager as I had the same problem on GNOME mines and WINEsweeper.)
So, simultaneous surfing and sweeping is only and option when I'm online with my mother's laptop, but as one of the reasons I got my own was that I wasn't supposed to use hers anymore that doesn't happen often, and if I do then because I want to do something quickly and don't want to set mine up. So, even though I miss it, I can't IRsweep anymore, and I think that being in the IRC channel regularily without being able to sweep simply takes too much time, and as I wrote already, that's time I don't have. (I guess you know the feeling DB )
Thanks for briefing me into writing that tam, I kinda always felt like explaining my relative absence
I held my two minesweeper courses yesterday and the day before yesterday, I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for the report(s), I hope to be done by the end of the week! Then again, I will have to do a couple of things in that time... We'll see
And WELL DONE Gergely !!!!!! I know I've said this before, but I think you're taking the community to a new level, congrats!!!
The only reason I haven't registered yet is that I need to ask my parents for permission first
You're insane zhang!!!

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Feb 14th 2007 at 08:56:55 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Best intermediate:  

4.26 -> 4.57 !!

Comments:  

in 95 board

   
Feb 14th 2007 at 08:36:27 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Best intermediate:  

12.56 -> 12.14 !!!

Comments:  

in 43 board

   
Feb 14th 2007 at 08:20:27 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

This is a big step for the minesweeper community...let's show Microsoft that we can be serious. If we play our cards right (ok, click our squares right) Microsoft will continue to sponsor, and they might allow the top professionals input when the next Windows platform is released. (To prevent VISTA minesweeper from ever happening again!). Ok, maybe this is getting too excited, but it would be great to show Microsoft that we deserve to be sponsored.

Hats off to Gergely.

I will make a page for the tournament (not official without persmission) and would like to list (eg., advertise) all the professional sweepers who will come. I've already had a tech blog agree to link to the promotion.

Registrations are to be sent to Nagy.

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Feb 14th 2007 at 08:07:01 AM
Name:  

Banzhaf

Comments:  

thanks Gergely..
man that's hard, my high-schol diploma is exactly five days later. I'll have to reflect on that carefully.

droll, today I've got solely 81s, five times I look up and see the same number

   
Feb 14th 2007 at 06:22:43 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

Just how soon is that announcement:

APRIL 14, 2007
Minesweeper World Championship

Budapest, Hungary

(sponsored by Microsoft Vista)

So, you all have exactly two months to prepare.
See You all!

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Feb 14th 2007 at 01:53:05 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

42

Best intermediate:  

12

Comments:  

Grats, Tam! 45sub60s is in insult though!

@Damien: Just checked my statistics. 179 sub60s before my first sub50.
Overall it's 1537 sub60s vs 24sub50s -> 64:1
and for last 100 games 82 vs 6 -> 13:1
I'm getting there...

   
Feb 14th 2007 at 12:54:23 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Gergely will be making the final announcement of tournament dates very soon. As said earlier, it will be in April.

Nice Tam, Zhang, Ian.

Tam: you don't have 50 sub60 yet?!?! I get about 8 sub60 for every 1 sub50 (I now have about 160 sub50....300+ sub60 before the first one)

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 11:20:25 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Yo Ian, congrats on your 56! Didn't mean to skip you, I just need to make it a habit of mine to read from bottom to top, rather than vice versa

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 11:16:03 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Ah! I obviously meant sub-60's, had bit of a brain fart there. Thanks for pointing that out Joni, as well as for the grats :)

And thanks Kolar too! How dare you have such a low milisecond value on your 47 game, that only inspires me to dedicate full effort to subYou. But you seriously need to play more, it's been a while since I've seen you post a record! Remember, I still consider you a tough Arbiter competitor

And I think Manu better hurry and break some more records to shake Zhang off his tail. Great game Zhang, can you please youtube it?

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 10:36:36 PM
Name:  

Thomas

Best expert:  

47,12

Comments:  

And grats to tam as well of course!
But you didn't subMe yet

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Feb 13th 2007 at 10:35:10 PM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

@Banzhaf:
Gergely posted something about the decision being announced relatively soon a couple of weeks ago, my advice is to read the GB starting from probably 6 pages back... but that might be a serious underestimation.
@Joni:
I've said this before, but great job on the site!!!
And zhang, you're crazy, dion had better watch his back! I remember that there was a time when I was better than you... ah well, back to sweeping

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Feb 13th 2007 at 10:30:55 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

A Big Grats Tam! way to have 45 sub-50s , and a very well done to Zhang too!!!

Banzhaf, You crazy german! I have no idea what I'm gonna do next week, you've got your summer planned out already.
I'm pretty sure Gergely mentioned April though, not summer. and it would be nice to know exactly when it is for everybody i guess. In August there is Vienna btw, a weekend in the second half if I remember correctly, don't know if Christoph has already decided on that.

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 07:49:14 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Best expert:  

48.66 -> 47.26

Comments:  

My 45th sub-50, but more importantly, it is my 3rd sub-50! ^^

I join Marc Schouten, Alain Rousseau, Nicolas Senger at rank 15 on bestever, I hope we can all break through the "true" minute barrier in the very near future.

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Feb 13th 2007 at 06:38:16 PM
Name:  

Jake

Comments:  

I for one welcome our new Zhang overlords.

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Feb 13th 2007 at 02:52:28 PM
Name:  

Banzhaf

Comments:  

cool Zang, I'm curious about your vid

Is the date of the Budapest Tournament known yet or the approximate days? I need to know that because I do definitely want to come but I also have to manage my summer time..

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Feb 13th 2007 at 12:13:39 PM
Name:  

Rilian

Comments:  

damien, do not launch "smart" systems before testing them. copy english language file from your site and rename it to "ru.txt"

joni, i sorta switched back to work, i did not master disappearing spells yet

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 10:11:36 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

Thank you for the feedback guys, I have tried to make a couple of quick fixes today, since I wont have time tomorrow and I will be on a trip the rest of the week.

@Elmar now it should be possible for a user to create a folder and to rename/move files (for the moment you can only move them from your home directory to an inner folder and not backwards...)

@Rogen, Rilian mentioned that problem yesterday briefly and then sort of dissappeared as I was trying to figure out what was going on. For the moment I tried to make the russian redirect to the english language site. i don't know if it works, i hope so, and then when i come back we can and try to solve the problem together.

that $dir thing would be a more complex problem to solve, so please bear with it for the next week. I am sorry it has to be like that (and I see Tam also posting a wrong link, because of it) please try to see this upload script as a beta version still, with it's errors and incompletenesses

So just to remind you Tam, and the others too, for the moment, because of this bug, only if you log out and you will have the correct links for the files you have uploaded. the correct link contains $dir=TamMinhBui in it, while when you are logged in $dir doesn't have a value

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 08:19:50 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@rogen: as elmar says, joni is working on this detail. it is supposed to recognise your language settings (instead of only being english)

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 07:51:59 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Zhang: Good job!
@Rogen: Joni is working on that error.

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 07:22:25 AM
Name:  

Rogen

Comments:  

...and grats Zhang!!

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 07:21:51 AM
Name:  

Rogen

Comments:  

@Damien: I can't enter video's section at your website, it always says something like
"Incorrect format for file ./languages/ru.txt on line 1.
Format is "variable name[tab]value""

Do you know the reason why this is happening?

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 05:14:33 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@Zhang: WOW

@Elmar:

1. There is a bug, so at the moment you need to delete, then upload the renamed file.
2. subfolders would clean things up...i'll mention it to joni. (I can add folders to you, but it is better if you do it).

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 04:52:30 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Best expert:  

45.92 -> 44.85 !!!

Best intermediate:  

12.56

Best beginner:  

1.98

Comments:  

in a 137 board!!

sum is sub60 now!!

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 04:45:43 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

by the by... is there any way to rename files and/or make subfolders on ms.info?

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 04:42:28 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

way to be retired Ian.

   
Feb 13th 2007 at 04:28:22 AM
Name:  

Ian

Best expert:  

57.20 --> 56.50ish

Comments:  

Don't worry Schu, I expect on metacafe it wouldn't have got as many views anyway.
I got a 56 yesterday, I'll upload the vid later.

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Feb 12th 2007 at 10:15:01 PM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

Dions youtube 38 vid has now hit half a million views! It's rating is up to 4 1/2 stars, after 128 ratings.

If this was done with Metacafe, with the same amount of views, this would have earned over $2000. Why oh why did this rise have to happen before google started paying for videos???

600,000 total views for all videos by the way - before Dions video went viral (again), it was getting about 1/2 of all the views.

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Feb 12th 2007 at 08:28:10 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Best expert:  

3.41

Comments:  

55.97 on 201/202 @ 3.65 3bv/s, gotta love those LC 50/50's.

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Feb 11th 2007 at 09:34:43 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Lol, so did I...
But I didn't do as well, I kept confusing squares with no information and blanks, and saw lots of patterns that werent there.
Then finally I managed a 3600P game and my f.ucking internet connection broke down, meaning that the game wasn't uploaded!
Ah well...

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Feb 11th 2007 at 03:05:34 AM
Name:  

Banzhaf

Comments:  

but now you're third, grats

   
Feb 11th 2007 at 03:02:21 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Banzhaf: ****, you for posting this game. I wasted like 3 hours on it yesterday!!

   
Feb 10th 2007 at 09:27:12 PM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

Some videos uploaded:

Dions latest (3rd) 38: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcEqFpBeWp4

Dions old 39: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPvI9UuA9Fk

Manu's 44: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nbb8Ihm-4U

Manu's new 11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i9Ld4vz4Fk

Also Dions vid passed the quarter-million mark in views today!

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Feb 10th 2007 at 01:53:54 PM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Dammit, the edges bother me :D
I keep blasting on real stupid mistakes :P

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Feb 10th 2007 at 10:43:40 AM
Name:  

Banzhaf

Comments:  

ah, and the first row is always free

   


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