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Nov 2nd 2008 at 03:04:39 PM |
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fritz |
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@ronny: grats! you beat my nf 3BV/s sum by not even 0.01 i have 4,688+3,186+2,382=10,256 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Nov 2nd 2008 at 01:27:55 PM |
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damien |
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nice ronny! kamil - i have never seen anyone break their records so often! 1 more second and you pass me on the ranking.... i didn't update today because only ~8 people made records and i have some big university exams in the next 3 days. i fixed the tournament ranking yesterday so it is updated...hope to fix the individual tournament pages in the next 2-3 weeks. |
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Nov 2nd 2008 at 12:58:08 PM |
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Ronny |
Best beginner: |
NF 4,335 -> 4,912 (3BV=16) |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 4,912 + 3,124 + 2,227 = 10,263 ![]() Hehe I almost didn't believe it, that I'd really solved it NF at almost 5 3BVs, since I never even got close to 4,9 NF on a blasted game.....Lol, I didn't even know i could click 5 times per second. ![]() Vid linked |
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Nov 2nd 2008 at 11:27:53 AM |
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Ronny |
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@Kamil: Congrats! It keeps amazing me how you just keep improving with that speed. I break exp. time records about once every 6 months, while you just keep finishing so many boards near your own record. ![]() |
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Nov 2nd 2008 at 09:38:13 AM |
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KAmil |
Best expert: |
42x2 -> 41,573 |
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Clone: 41,573 FL on 139 ![]() linked. |
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Nov 2nd 2008 at 05:42:40 AM |
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Ronny |
Best intermediate: |
NF 3,124 -> 3,2 'blasted' |
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Just had the weirdest of blasts ever....I solved a compete int board in 3,2 3BVs.......then i arrived at the final square and somehow it took me 4 seconds to see it, while my cursor was 1 pixel away........MAJOR LEAGUE BRAIN MALFUNCTION! . ![]() |
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Nov 1st 2008 at 05:06:20 PM |
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Ronny |
Best intermediate: |
Clone 17,458 (36 NF) -> 17,229 (40 NF) |
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In 1 week from 17x1 -> 17x5 .... now all i need now is to break that darn winmine 16s of mine. ![]() @KAmil: Very nice ![]() |
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Nov 1st 2008 at 01:39:22 PM |
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KAmil |
Best expert: |
42x1 -> x2 |
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Nov 1st 2008 at 06:59:08 AM |
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manuel |
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hi nice blast kamil ^^ improved my exp 3bv/s highscore from 3,23 or sth to 3,549 ![]() Horst2104 Last game: 64.672sec - 3BV=226 - 3BV/s=3.549 - level=exp *non-flagging* - Ranks: 3830/578 - IOE=20.545 - RQP=18.223 mfg |
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Nov 1st 2008 at 06:02:21 AM |
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Janis |
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hugz |
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Nov 1st 2008 at 04:42:02 AM |
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KAmil |
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can somebody hug me? ![]() |
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Oct 31st 2008 at 02:01:59 PM |
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tK |
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extreme ouch on the blast kamil ![]() @ patterns, I take back what I wrote, make that 01,02 and 03, respectively. ![]() |
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Oct 31st 2008 at 01:27:41 PM |
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Janis |
Best expert: |
135 |
Best intermediate: |
39 |
Best beginner: |
5 |
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wow gratz, that's huge man |
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Oct 31st 2008 at 11:21:53 AM |
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Ronny |
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@Kamil: Ouch that it's big blast.....reminds me of my est. 67 on 116/118 on a mistake like that...my record was still 79s back then. ![]() |
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Oct 31st 2008 at 10:13:47 AM |
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KAmil |
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38,766 NF 126/128 3bv no guess. I go to die now. linked. |
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Oct 31st 2008 at 10:09:57 AM |
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tK |
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I dont have time to post more, but if you distill everything down to 121 and 1221, why not go one step further and use 12? Also, 13 and 14 are not quite the same either. |
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Oct 31st 2008 at 08:03:01 AM |
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KAmil |
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Rubik's cube 3x3: 23s -> 22s ![]() ![]() quite fast cross, easy slots, 9-moves permutation of corners, and in fact colours of corners got ready while permutation, then short (9 moves) alg. to solve edges ![]() Im sure I can get sub20 ![]() |
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Oct 31st 2008 at 06:40:39 AM |
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Bertie |
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@Damien: I think it might be a good idea to put colomn headings in the world ranking. Just a thought. |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 06:28:01 PM |
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Ronny |
Best intermediate: |
Clone NF 17,487 -> 17,458 (36) |
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I little step closer to my ancient winmine record..atleast it's my 2nd best overall and best time since June. |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 03:30:02 PM |
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Ronny |
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@Gergo: Very nice. Same time as my NF record ![]() I tried replaying your board and scores 75s flagging and 78 NF, so very well done to get a 70 out of that board on first attempt. ![]() |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 02:30:22 PM |
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Gergő |
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I just put my second best exp NF game into my NF Expert folder. I made it about one week before and it is a 70 on a 146 board. I am proud of it ![]() |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 09:22:38 AM |
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Jon S |
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Ok. I just remembered a pattern from the dreamboard (linked). In the lower left corner (on the 15th row), there's a pattern that can be solved with Elmar's "21-technique". Assume that you have opened everything in the fourteenth row. The 15th row has a x-3-1-3-x pattern (x being mines). You can reduce this to 2-1-2, and solve it as two 2-1 patterns. I'll stop spamming the guestbook now. I guess there's a forum that can be used for strategy discussion.. |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 09:03:49 AM |
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Jon S |
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Ok. This strategy stuff isn't easy. After having yet another look, I think the pattern is still unsolvable if the edge is on the right side... |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 08:55:42 AM |
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Jon S |
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uh. oh. I had another look at the e-1-1 pattern. The e can also be a mine with numbers next to it. In that case, those numbers can't yield any exact information about the mine placement (or else you won't have to use the e-1-1 pattern) |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 08:46:43 AM |
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Jon S |
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@Strategy: Yeah. The 2nd mixed patterns is 1-2-2-2-1. If you have an edge on either side of that picture, the pattern becomes solvable. If you put the edge on the right side, I think you'll have to use the "2-1"-pattern Elmar mentions ![]() If you put the edge on the left side, you can deduce that the third square from the left isn't a mine because you have the "e-1-1"-pattern (e being either an edge or a column of mines that yield no information). Anyway, keep up the nice work. Minesweeper strategy... ![]() |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 07:00:50 AM |
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Gergely |
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@saravanan: see downloads section here or click at the link below |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 06:58:57 AM |
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Gergely |
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@Damien: I took a quick look at the tournament section to see if you updated it with this year's WCh results and found that even Vienna '07 results are not up-to-date. So, in kamilian style ![]() |
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Oct 30th 2008 at 05:30:35 AM |
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saravanan |
Best expert: |
146 seconds (30 by 16 with 99 mines) |
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i would like to know how to play the mvf video files. please assist me on what player to install to watch. another thing, how do i see the best time of the players. i see a lot of numbers but i don't know which stands for the best times. e-mail me the response. thank you. |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 06:20:01 PM |
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Elmar |
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Hehe, yeah sorry, my notation was kinda crap. I am a bit rusty. I mean the "common 12 pattern" here: http://www.planet-minesweeper.com/schemas.php So basically an NF pattern opposed to 1221 and 121 which are F patterns I guess... ![]() |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 04:23:16 PM |
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Damien |
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@Joni: I understand what you mean...the examples were taken from boards and the flags were correct. I should either tell this to the reader, or I should fix 4 of the pictures (eg., bottom right 1-2-1 example change the 3 to a 2). About the middle example for multiple 1-2-1 and 1-2-2-1 patterns, you are right! I should delete that one. @elmar: I didn't understand your example..can you explain ' and 0? @ronny: I used to look for patterns, and I thought I knew hundreds...but when I thought about it they all seem to be variations of 121 and 1221. I think our brains noticed a long time ago and we reduce subconsciously. |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 03:38:04 PM |
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Ronny |
Best intermediate: |
NF IOS 1.35398 -> 1.37142 (3BV=61, Time=21.036) |
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Record nr. 25 since I started playing again this month..........quite absurd that considering all these improvements I haven't even gotten a 1 second of my total time. ![]() BTW, I don't understand what you guys are talking about. I've never thought of a concept of reducing patterns to 1-2-1 and 1-2-2-1. Is this about how to solve a board when you don't know the patterns yet? |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 02:56:03 PM |
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joni |
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ok... one more :P, the very last pic (bottom right at "Examples of mixed 1-2-2-1 and 1-2-1 patterns:") looks like a 50-50...as i can't see any board edges, it would turn out into a 1-2-2-2-1 which is my personal least favorite pattern... which btw I think would deserve some mention too ![]() |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 02:43:58 PM |
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joni |
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I find the top-left picture at the "Examples of the 1-2-1 pattern:" potentially misleading... since, if I'm not wrong, only two of the three flagged bombs around the 4 can be inferred from the info there... i would have put a 3 in the row immediately above to avoid any missunderstanding. The same goes for the bottom-right pic, with the bombs flagged around the 5. I understand your point in both pics damien, but I think, as this is meant for beginners, you don't just flag bombs arbitrarily just to make an example since people might draw the wrong conclusions from it. and just to end being picky i don't see a "multiple 1-2-1 pattern" in the center picture of that section ![]() nice to hear from you elmar ![]() |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 02:13:12 PM |
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Elmar |
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uhm, what about: 21' ??O At least as fundamental as 121 and 1221, no? ![]() |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 02:00:21 PM |
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Damien |
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Hey guys, I made a promise to myself to put more stuff online - instead of hiding it on my computer forever. At the moment I am putting every video and picture online, but there is a lot of other crap on my computer. Here is a link to a strategy article I wrote last year! Shame on me, hehe. |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 12:13:32 PM |
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Ronny |
Best intermediate: |
16 -> 13 (25 of 32 blasted on guess, no openings remaining) |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 06:23:31 AM |
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Hopsing |
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hey guys, is rodrigo going to make an update of the clone? |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 04:06:39 AM |
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KAmil |
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Ive just made 46s on Exp, and now aaverage time of all my arbiter games is 49,93 ![]() |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 02:24:02 AM |
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Bertie |
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Thanks for the advice, but just to clear things up I'm gonna give a brief history of my programming carrier. In school I did pascal in computer studies, which I then basically had to learn in a week. After school I started my Astrophysics degree having two C++ modules in my first year. Added to this I was also persuaded to do my Information Systems Engineering diploma part time (which includes SQL and program design, which is a basic (not the language) intro into programming teaching psuedocode etc.). This is where C# comes in. I start it in a week, but I also start my post graduate studies next year, where I'll incedentally be using IDL. This means that I need to somehow fast track C#, which is where 21 days would fit in nicely ![]() The good thing is that I can basically choose which language I want to learn ( out of C#, VB & Java). I've also heard that it's not too difficult to jump between Java and the other two. The reason I've given C# preference so far is that I've heard that of the three it is the more performance driven language, more suited to heavy calculation applications. The biggest projects I would like to apply it for is a computer origami environment and, of course a clone type program in which I could test my theory (which I could automate as I needed). Well, that's basically the story. I still think I prefer a nice partial differential equation, but programming would certainly be usefull. Ok, bye. |
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Oct 29th 2008 at 02:04:42 AM |
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KAmil |
Best intermediate: |
10x21 -> x22 |
Comments: |
Arbiter: 10,14 FL on 37, 9 openings ! linked |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 11:33:21 PM |
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joni |
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hehehe... from tommy's link i found a very interesting essay "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" ![]() I am quite happy with the way i learned programming myself (old school one might say ![]() ![]() to wrap up, learning the language might take 21 days... learning to program in that language is a brain excercise that might take a bit longer ![]() |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 01:20:18 PM |
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tK |
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oh and I wouldn't recommend VB or C# regardless of what youre doing because they are (at least largely, mono exists but will not give you the ability to use .net (which is a gigantic pile of badly designed bloat anyway IMO though :P so that applies mostly to VB)) tied to windows, so with these languages you will be limited to writing software for windows. And more than enough languages exist that don't have that problem. If you want to do one of the above, I recommend java. and now a post that rod will heavily disagree with ![]() ![]() |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 01:01:07 PM |
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tK |
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@Bertie: I'd recommend starting with a language that is easier to learn. Take a look at Python (www.python.org). http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html gives good reasons why. I'm not saying that you should become a hacker, but the advice is good nonetheless. Unless you need to learn a specific language for a specific purpose, start with an easy to learn language. Python basically has only one weakness, and that is performance. Python is too slow to do some things. But in the cases where python is too slow, you will need something as low-level as C or C++, and definetly not a language you want to start programming with. (I'm not saying that they are bad languages - on the contrary, they are extremely good languages, but very complicated by comparison). If you want to learn Python, http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/ is a good place to start. I learnt a lot from there. Well, that's my general advice. And I bet that Joni will disagree heavily :D What is the reason youre learning programming actually? |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 12:06:15 PM |
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KAmil |
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I will wrtie down some of my games from last few months: 28/31 est8 33-66 33/35 est9 50-50 28/32 est9 50-50 115/117 est40 50-50 68/71 @ 5,68NF 50-50, if solved in 0,2s my NF 3bv/s record would beat dion's FL WR. Do u all have the same luck as me? ![]() |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 11:36:30 AM |
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Ronny |
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@Bertie: That book contains almost all need to know basics of C++, so I would recommend it. I believe I bought 'The C Programming Language' for C' and read the book you've mentioned for C++. Currently I'm only programming in C (so not C++) for my work, so my knowledge about C++ is very dusty at the moment. |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 06:02:04 AM |
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Bertie |
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@Arbiter lag: I honestly use arbiter for only one feature, namely the doubleclick to restart. The biggest reason I never went from clone97 to clone2000 was because its stat window showed no stats, and there was nothing to indicate, or even hint at, rightclicking on the stat window. For the better stat features I would like to use clone, but it doesn't have the doubleclick to start feature & clone and arbiter history's aren't intercompatible. A while back my arbiter also started to lag while I was playing, which I really didn't like. But a few days ago I noticed that it doesn't lag anymore. Why, I don't know. @Ronny: Those two times remind me of budapest '07 where 4 of my 5 int games where 22 with 2 X 22.73 and a 22.76. That was within three hours! (linked) A question to all you programmer tipes: Will "Learn C# in 21 days" be worth my while? How much do they leave out? Will I have enough knowledge to start programming? C#, VB or Java? Help!!! ![]() Ok, bye. |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 04:32:49 AM |
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Ronny |
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@KAmil: Yeah those kind of blasts suck indeed.........but on the positivie side...This gives me more time to beat you by getting a 15 before you get your 9. ![]() |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 04:19:25 AM |
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KAmil |
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Arbiter: 28/32 est 9 lost on a f.ucking 50-50 No way, for sure it would be 9 ![]() |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 03:51:17 AM |
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Charles (aka Knolan) |
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Congratulations to all players in the Vienna 2008 ! I really hope some day, there'll be a tournament with the travel fees paid for world best players (like for the top10 players). It would be enough motivation for a lot of players to come and see the minesweeper elite ![]() |
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Oct 28th 2008 at 02:31:31 AM |
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Gergely |
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If you're interested in the upcoming documentary about Vienna 2008, become a fan of it on facebook so you get noticed about the progress - at the link below ![]() |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 05:32:19 PM |
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Steve |
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You guys are hardcore! Rock on! |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 04:01:05 PM |
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manuel |
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@ arbiter lag: i have the same problem on my pc at home, when i open a board the processor starts to run at 100% and everything gets slow. rilian told me it that it can be winamp, but i have the same probs no matter what else is running. he has no idea what is causing this effect... @ kamil @ rogens 42 : i agree, and i said it short after budapest that his 42 schould be added and im still thinking the same ! so far mfg 1,78m-manu |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 02:04:01 PM |
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KAmil |
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Ive just decided to hunt for dreaboard for 10 mins and got the same board what on I made 8s ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 01:32:00 PM |
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Ronny |
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Yesterday I made that 17,911 (32) as my best time in 4 months......now I just set the EXACT same time 17,911 (on 41) today. LMAO what a coincedence. ![]() |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 12:32:40 PM |
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joni |
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if you watch the Vienna II group photo, Christoph is only 5th/6th tallest out of 12 ![]() ![]() "only one thing is absolute: that everything is relative" some wise man said... |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 12:04:53 PM |
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KAmil |
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@Damien: I dont know whats wrong with yours arbiter, but my 1 works as well @ home as @ school. Maybe try to watch avf vids on Clone? And a question - my 42,84 is 42,84 on Arbiter and 42,85 on Clone. wtf? ![]() then, y dont u want to update Rogen's 42 from a tournament? As far as I know, World Ranking doesnt show scores what ppl deserve, not what they want to have - but scores what they GOT. and if u want it or if u dont - u cant change the fact that Rogen got 42 ![]() @all: just to point it out - u can believe me or not - my 8s on winmine wasnt UPKed - I realised that that its 1 of "easy boards with 6" after end, but not during playing ![]() |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 11:54:16 AM |
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Michael |
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Gergely: I had to use a conversion site to understand height in centimetres, but it seems you're a bit taller than I am. I conclude that Christoph must be a giant after all. ![]() |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 11:17:11 AM |
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Ronny |
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@Damien: Arbiter 100% freezes my old computer accept the time keep running. However when I replayed other peoples vids on arbiter they took ages to show, so I think the problem is not that the time lags while playing, but when replaying. On my new computer Arbiter starts out ok, but slowly becomes unplayable because squares start opening slower and slower (but the time keeps running normal). So far I've only seen downsides of playing on arbiter, no advantages. |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 11:01:49 AM |
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Damien |
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Website updated. Yeoh Wee Pin wrote a personal report about Vienna2008, it is in the Article section. I was watching Kamil's last three 10s and I thought they looked slow. So when I watched the 42 video I timed it with a cheap stopwatch - it took 45.19s to play at 1.00x speed on my computer (Vista, 3gb ram). Does the Arbiter video player have a time lag on any of your computers? Maybe this was noticed before, but I don't use Arbiter very much. @kamil: i will remember to fix lukasz's profile later, promise I hope someone took pictures at the Budapest Open ![]() |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 08:46:45 AM |
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fritz |
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@kamil: no idea how long it did take me exactly. all i can say is that i started with squaro 1 or 2 days after bertie first posted about it here. since then i have played ~1-2 hours a day on the avg but this includes both tournaments and practicing outsides the tournaments. so far i haven't gotten a 4s but 3 or 4 times i was very close to it. either few tenths were missing or i made misclicks. but i'm sure it is possible. this makes 12s the ultimately fastest possible time in the 5*5 squaro tournament but i think that the fastest i can ever get is 15s. my current best of 18s had still a few misclicks and i normally should have done it in 17s. i'm sure that you can get sub30 in it within a week ![]() |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 05:17:53 AM |
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KAmil |
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@Damien: can u send both 26 3bv boards pictures? Id like to try in upk ![]() also remember to update Rogen's 42 from Budapest 3, to write in news about my 8NF on 29 and and to change Zhang's 11s int date from 2008-01-02 to 2008-02-01 ![]() @fritz: how many days and how many hours/dat did u play to get sub20 in square tournament? and have u ever made 4s as a single time? |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 04:16:43 AM |
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Gergely |
Comments: |
@Michael: LOL ![]() ![]() |
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Oct 27th 2008 at 12:10:08 AM |
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Nikolaj |
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@joni: Yeah, I was a *bit* frustrated. After not sweeping for a long time my hand was creating amazing combinations of movements (like marking a square I didn't intend to, but ok there was a mine, trying to mark the neighbouring square, but unmarking the previous instead and when trying to mark the 2nd one again, marking completely different square and blasting the following doubleclick) ![]() @Michael: no, Christoph is not a giant ![]() |
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Oct 26th 2008 at 07:29:50 PM |
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Michael |
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I always pictured Gergely as tall, but he looks fairly short next to Christoph. Is Christoph a giant? |
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Oct 26th 2008 at 04:20:31 PM |
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Damien |
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Update will be Monday night - I almost finished today, but there is so much happening in the community! Congrats to the winners, no big surprise ![]() Btw, Tian Yi Fang made 10.79 - but 3bv=26. Llast month Shao Guang made 10.63 - also on 3bv=26. Both scores are on the China ranking - too bad they all use Clone97. |
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Oct 26th 2008 at 03:35:10 PM |
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Ronny |
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ARRRGGHHHHH I hate minesweeper!!! ![]() For weeks I've been waiting for a near perfect intermediate board to break my ancient 16s record.........now after weeks I finally got that record board, but off course I'd just stopped playing fast 1 minute before that moment (to try some 100% control) and I ended up with a stupid 17s on a 32 3BV board. First time UPK: 14s without even trying to go really fast! ![]() Some days I just can't stand the unfairness of this freaking game. Since my 16s record I've improved 20% on my average times and 3BVs and still I can't beat it due to plain bad luck. ![]() |
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Oct 26th 2008 at 03:24:30 PM |
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Name: |
joni |
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very nice vid!! I love the intro by Christoph ![]() ![]() |
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Oct 26th 2008 at 12:50:08 PM |
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fritz |
Best expert: |
45,23 |
Best intermediate: |
14,55 |
Best beginner: |
1,76 on vienna sweeper =====> 1,64 on arbiter |
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/me beg game --> Time: 1,64 «» Est. Time: 1,64 «» 3BV: 3 (3) «» 3BV/s: 4,68 «» Ranks: 1 / 1 of 7286 / 100% «» RQP: 0,34 my luckiest beginner game ever - after 5th initial click board was cleared 100% luck ![]() |
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Oct 26th 2008 at 11:18:29 AM |
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KAmil |
Best expert: |
50 sub50 |
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I dont notice when I made my 50th, but my 42s was my 51th sub50 ( together with today's 49 I have 26 sub50FL and 26 sub50NF) ![]() |
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Oct 26th 2008 at 02:28:07 AM |
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Gergely |
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Headline on the main page of the most frequented website in Hungary: "Seven Clicks Per Second". And Tommy's interviewed as well ![]() It's an article about the whole game show in which they wrote about the minesweeper as well /too bad it's only available in Hungarian/ |
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Oct 25th 2008 at 05:40:10 PM |
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fritz |
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@all: i stumbled upon a very nice little logic game today: connect2win you are given an 8*8 grid of squares with different colors, 4 squares for each color. to win you have to click on a pair of squares that can be connected by a line which has not more than 2 bends and doesn't go through any other colored squares. from the highscores list on that page i am not the 1st minesweeper to discover this game (gero and roli are on 1st and 2nd rank) but i'm sure not many people have remembered this game.... |
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Oct 25th 2008 at 05:34:38 PM |
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Ronny |
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@Johnny and Gergely: Nice vid ![]() @Kamil: Congrats...only 5 more positions on the world ranking to go. ![]() |
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Oct 25th 2008 at 04:26:06 PM |
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Name: |
fritz |
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@damien: just noticed that there is now a regional ranking for germany in country ranks. that's awesome! ![]() ![]() but it is a bit empty.....as far as i know daniel steinmeyer belongs to niedersachsen-ranking and tobias hartfiel to bayern-ranking |
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Oct 25th 2008 at 02:29:10 PM |
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Gergely |
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Let's clear things: not my vid, all credit goes to Johnny, our moviemaker. ![]() |
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Oct 25th 2008 at 02:24:11 PM |
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Rogen |
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@Gergely: great vid! Hopefully I'll be able to make any decent video from Russian Championship 2008 (Moscow and several other cities, November 15, 2008) to introduce sweepers from Russia and Belarus to international community. |
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Oct 25th 2008 at 12:59:26 PM |
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Name: |
fritz |
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@kamil: grats! @gergely: nice video. how long is the full documentary? |
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Oct 25th 2008 at 12:34:25 PM |
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Name: |
KAmil |
Best expert: |
43 -> 42,84 |
Best intermediate: |
10x20 -> x21 |
Comments: |
Arbiter: 10,43 FL on 41 ![]() Arbiter: 42,84 FL on 154 ![]() linked ![]() Big congrats to winners! ![]() And a question for all: sometimes when I save avf vids, its calles .AVF and sometimes .avf Why it happens? |
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Oct 25th 2008 at 11:56:06 AM |
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Name: |
Gergely |
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bonus: teaser from the upcoming Vienna 2008 documentary available at the link courtesy of Johnny Buell ![]() |
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Oct 25th 2008 at 09:25:18 AM |
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Gergely |
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!!!Breaking News!!! Report from the Hungarian Open Minesweeper Tournament: It was a unique kind of minesweeper competition, with the rules mentioned earlier. It drew a lot of people (though it surely was only one of many things to do at the Budapest Game Show '08). 46 players swept at the qualification phase and although most of them were not world class player, it meant full-time sweeping on the two computers from 9:00 to 14:00. In the playoffs there were some close games one of which was the final itself, which was held in front of a big audience on the main stage. And which was won by Tommy (yet again), second place goes to Christoph while Gergő came in third defeating a new Hungarian world ranking candidate, Attila Borsi in the bronze match ![]() |
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Oct 24th 2008 at 03:15:45 PM |
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@Kamil: |
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Isn't that 10,02 FL a WR flagging or doesn't that count when the NF record is faster? ![]() |
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Oct 24th 2008 at 02:37:53 PM |
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Name: |
WP |
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Yeah, good luck to all those who are going to play in Budapest! (I actually have a week's holiday starting tonight but it's too far and hence too expensive...) |
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Oct 24th 2008 at 01:45:56 PM |
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damien |
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Best of luck to all players in Budapest tomorrow! I wish I could see it. Gergely, sorry for not advertising ![]() Btw, 15th Nov is the Russian tournament in Moscow ![]() Also btw...I know the times I can go on holiday for the next 16 months if anyone plans another tournament - I really miss going to these parties. Need to check some new players are not robots, hehe |
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Oct 24th 2008 at 12:57:44 PM |
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KAmil |
Best intermediate: |
10x18 -> x19 -> x20 |
Comments: |
Arbiter: 10,02 FL on 37 and 10,07 NF on 35 ![]() Just trying to get a legit sub10. linked. |
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Oct 24th 2008 at 12:35:25 PM |
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fritz |
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@squaro players: 7*7 tournament: 75s(3rd best ever)===>69s(2nd)====>66s(fastest ever)========>57s(18s+15s+24s) @forum topic: as long as this gb here will still be there i'm ok with a forum btw: this week i have played not even 30 mins of minesweeper @all hungarian open participants: GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN! |
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Oct 24th 2008 at 12:51:05 AM |
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tK |
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@michael: I fully agree with the last paragraph :-D |
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Oct 23rd 2008 at 04:57:18 PM |
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Michael |
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@Joni - "Having once had such a service at planete-demineur, i can only say positive things about it" I seem to remember the forum died at exactly the same time as the world ranking updates stopped. And didn't you have to use the forum to upload your videos? Bit of a coincidence, isn't it? I'd really like a forum too, but only if it functions properly and people actually use it a lot. I'd be delighted if that happened. I just don't want to see yet another good opportunity turn into a barren wasteland. I'm not really opposed to a forum, just a little afraid that it would end up dead like the others. As for the egos thing, internet moderators of any description tend to be some of the most pompous megalomaniacs you could hope to meet online. It's not a unique phenomenon, it happens elsehwere, but the anonymity of the internet makes it easier for people to manipulate the tiny amount of power they have, just because they can and it makes them feel important. Once that starts, others start to resent them and it snowballs. It might not happen here, partially because it's a nice group of people, and partially because it's a fairly small community, but you never know. I've certainly seen it happen elsewhere, I'm sure others have too. On the other hand, forums are good for those of us who like to make long posts ![]() |
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Oct 23rd 2008 at 01:50:03 PM |
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Ronny |
Best beginner: |
2,377 (3BV=5, clone) -> 2,300 (3BV=4, arbiter) |
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@Kamil: Haha, holy cows that's really absurdly fast Offcourse it won't be an official WR, but it sure is an amazing achievement. Big congrats. I've just broke my oldest record (only record left from 2007): 2,377 -> 2,300 (3BV=4) Vid in folder |
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Oct 23rd 2008 at 01:01:17 PM |
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KAmil |
Best intermediate: |
10x18 -> 8,880 NF |
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winminexp: 8,88 NF on 29 ![]() no cheating, no UPK = I accept it as my personal record. Why winminexp? After 4+ months break of Dreamboard-hunting, I decided to try again ![]() ![]() |
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Oct 23rd 2008 at 12:59:43 PM |
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Name: |
tK |
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I just checked the permissions in the IMC forum, they should be appropriate. Just go to http://imc.martinpre.net/ (linked as website). The Inofficial Forum was always meant to be used as pretty much what we are planning at the moment. So, feel free to do that ;) |
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Oct 23rd 2008 at 12:41:40 PM |
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Bertie |
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I think whatever we decide about the forum, the GB should stay. I don't know about you guys, but I really don't like chatting through a forum. The only thing I like doing through a forum is discussing specific topics. We of course have on the other hand IMC tipe chatting, which is the other extreme. Both these have there advantages and disadvantages (All 3 actually). I have grown quite fond of the GB. I feel that the pace at which chatting happens is "just right" for me to stay up to date without having to come here three times a day. This of course is related to the amount of ppl in the community and whether or not there is something to spark heated debate. (which actually I find works better in the GB because the conversation is aloud to flow as an actual one would, unlike in a forum) Anyway, that's another 2 cents. Bye |
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Oct 23rd 2008 at 06:16:51 AM |
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KAmil |
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Ive changed my opinion - forum will be better than GB: 1. You dont have to write your name and code every time u post 2. U can edit your posts (if u make a writing mistake) 3. There still can be 1 main topic what will work as GB ![]() |
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Oct 22nd 2008 at 01:05:08 PM |
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joni |
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i think it's about time this site gets a forum running (my 2 cents)... My thoughts are actually diametrally opposed to Michael... Having once had such a service at planete-demineur, i can only say positive things about it. For example, I think more of the people that just read the guestbook now might be inclined to post stuff (if interesting topics come up). I agree one loses a bit of spontaneity of the guestbook... and I think it was schu who said once you need both... but still the advantages of having stuff sorted and SEARCHABLE for once are invaluable... that moderating is going to be a problem is just laughable... the only reason we had mods at planete was to take care of the spam... I mean, think of Ronny or me as moderator... can you really see us having any big ego clashes with anyone??? I've installed and administered a phpbb2 (i'm old I know =P) and I've been more than happy with it. |
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Oct 22nd 2008 at 12:38:04 AM |
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Gergő |
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@Ronny: Nice work! Just go on and soon you will be in the top 200 WR ![]() @all: I will be also there in Budapest as early as 9 AM. See some of you there. Who will come except Tommy? |
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Oct 21st 2008 at 04:35:34 PM |
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Name: |
Ronny |
Best intermediate: |
FL RQP=7.368 (3bv=52; 20.080) -> FL RQP=6.665 (3bv=58; 20.168) |
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I've just made a big jump on both my IOS and RQP records by solving a 3BV=58 board in just 20,1s (3BVs=3,026). ![]() Comparing that with my flag time record of 18,0s on a 3BV=38........it's just 2 seconds slower on a board with 20 3BV more, so really insanely fast for me!!! ![]() Time: 20.168 (FL 14th) 3BVs: 3,026 (FL 6th) IOS: 1.35975 -> 1.3749 RQP: 7.368 -> 6.665 IOE: 0,829 ![]() |
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Oct 21st 2008 at 12:10:39 PM |
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tK |
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Hi, I forgot to post that, I'm definetly coming ![]() I'm also not sure whether or not a forum makes sense. But if we make a forum, as michael said, the IMC forum still exists and was never meant to be exclusively used by the IMC. Maybe we need some people in there posting actively for IMC discussions to take place there. If an interest to continue efforts on the IMC arise, I'm always ready to take part, and the forum still exists. I actually find it extremely sad that not a lot was posted (with the notable exception of some people, but we never recieved feedback on what the community in general thought about our ideas). |
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Oct 21st 2008 at 11:28:12 AM |
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Ronny |
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Well, I must say that this community is rather unique that this guestbook works without moderating. Most online communities are much less civil I guess and often end up with flame wars, deleted posts and locked topics. Maybe if a another guestbook is better than braven.net than it would be a better idea than a forum. |
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Oct 21st 2008 at 06:47:57 AM |
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KAmil |
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Oct 20th 2008 at 03:58:37 PM |
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Name: |
Bertie |
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Wooohooo! Got my third sub50 yesterday (19th) with a 48.82. I think it was 150 3bv. Anyway, @ the forum idea: I agree with micheal on that one. I like the gb, Ithink it's pretty unique in that people frequent it. Not many gb's have that attribute. If my style is a bit different today, it's because I've been listening to a wee bit of Terry Pratchett audio books. My thoughts now have a british accent!!!! Ok, bye. |
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Oct 20th 2008 at 02:09:26 PM |
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Michael |
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I think a forum would be a bad idea. Tommy's IMC forum was a great idea, but people just haven't taken to it. I think it'd be the same with a forum here. Topics come and go fairly quickly, so you end up with a lot of small, dead threads, and people also feel uncomfortable about making frivolous posts (because there's nowhere to make them - every topic is about something specific). Also when you create moderators, you can create resentment amongst non-mods, and, let's be honest, an ego trip for the mods themselves. Best to keep the GB, in my opinion. |
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Oct 20th 2008 at 12:32:50 PM |
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Name: |
fritz |
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@squaro players: i improved my best time in the 5*5 tournament once more: 19s====>18s (5+6+7). with this 18s score i'm now 5s ahead of the best score not done by me.....i feel that i can still improve some more seconds but so far 15s would be the fastest i feel able to get. |
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