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Oct 20th 2008 at 08:14:10 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Damien: with the ammount of posts/day on GB, I think moderators wont be needed :)

   
Oct 20th 2008 at 08:10:47 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@damien: I'm already moderating a PHPBB forum and it works pretty well, but I'm not the one fixing the problems there, so I don't know how hard it really is to create one and keep it running. On the other hand, the admin is online about once a week, so it can't be too hard.

   
Oct 20th 2008 at 07:17:18 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Hey guys - any opinions on whether a new guestbook (php) or a forum (phpbb3) is better, or both? I installed a forum a few months ago while experimenting...if we do that, I'd expect some of you are willing to be moderators (i'm a forum noob!). Any ideas are cool.

   
Oct 20th 2008 at 05:15:21 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

Yesterday gave ambivalent feelings for me. I blasted an est 68,5 (3BV: 142, I think) on last 50-50 click... It is awful, but it is nice that I could prove myself that I am able to do a sub 70 and it depends only on time when it comes. And I blasted an est 16 3 3BVs before the end... Both ones NF. BTW I made an 18,2, which is my 4. best.

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Oct 19th 2008 at 06:05:31 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Best beginner:  

2,4 (3BV=5) ->2,4 (3BV=6 @ 4,335) <- 3BVS, RQP and IOS

Comments:  

@Bertie and thomas: Txs for the advice. The part of going slow to practice doesn't suit me very well, because unfortunately within 5 minutes I'm back to playing fast again when i lose concentration. The thing about choosing the path that goes deepest with few clicks might be very useful for me, because currently I do break 3bvs records a lot by cleaning boards with a lot of 1's on the surface, but I don't really improve by time because those boards require a different tactic, so that trying to go deep with less clicks might be useful to improve on time.

   
Oct 19th 2008 at 05:53:40 AM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

@Bertie:
Yeah, I agree.
Also, flags you place "deeper" are _much_ more likely to be reusable.

with going deep you have to be careful that you don't leave behind squares though. So your path is important as well.

Actually I think that flagging efficiency is distillable to three important factors: click efficiency, path, and flag reusability.

Click efficiency is overrated, you can usually click fast enough anyway. (Unless you're Gyula, then click efficiency is incredibly important :P) But most sweepers will be able to click faster if they pass over clickable squares faster.

Which is also why I think that old-school "overflagging" style is underrated, if you're going over mines anyway you might as well flag them in passing, especially if you're going to use them later, and we all know that more flags make it easier not to blast.
There's a reason lasse finished so many games

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Oct 19th 2008 at 05:06:39 AM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

I just want to throw in a quick add-on to what tommy said (again! Keep it up ). Minesweeper is very much like dance in a certain sense. In dance you practice at a slow speed (on counts) and as you progress through the learning of a dance, and doing it on the music, you occasionally redo the dance on counts to polish every movement. The reason this works is because in dance you heavily rely on muscle memory to perform the task. It is the same in minesweeper, we just have a different muscle to teach namely our brains.

On to efficiency now. I've learned something quite important about efficient play. The most efficient move is not the one which opens the most squares with the least clicks, but the one which gets you the furthest into the unknown part of the board with the least clicks. Sometimes these two do coincide though. It's like mining: If you have this very rich vain of gold two kilometers below the surface ( that elusive single click opening up 30 squares and giving you a mountain of info) you have one of two choices. 1) A surface mine, removing the largest volume of dirt for the least cost (and getting to the gold in 200 years), or 2) A deep mine gaining most depth for the least cost. Option 2 is the best because where not after dirt, but after gold. (Note, I'm not necessarily saying the openings are what we're after here)

Ok, bye.

   
Oct 19th 2008 at 04:17:59 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

hey joni/tommy: i'll get back to you on designing a guestbook. i have to spend today finishing an essay - might not have time for an update today either, but i'll try!

   
Oct 17th 2008 at 12:00:55 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

WTF???? it even cut my reply the bastard...because i used quotation marks????
this is insane... what i also said was

<<no cookies, no sessions, no database>> for this guy Flash or AJAX or whatever this site is on would be too absurd to be conceivable
<<Allows Quoting of messages and Admin Moderation. Can be Public or Private. Message editing by User.>> FREEEEEEEEE php script.. you have the source and can do what you want with it that is!

ok... if you preview a message with "" they show up in the preview, but then dissappear when you want to post what you just previewed... simply amazing. i'm starting to wonder if bravenet is outsourcing jobs to ukraine...

   
Oct 17th 2008 at 11:50:42 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

what on earth??????? you're not paying for this c.rap are you?????? some people in this world really know how to make money...
I have never bumped on a guestbook except that on this site (that's why it took me two years to find i), but if you really want one i'd say go for one called KISGB (keep it simple guestbook!!!!!!!)

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Oct 17th 2008 at 06:10:58 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: No sorry, Budapest is too far away for me....maybe next time if there's a tournament in Vienna I will come. Also I can't afford it because I've just bought a house and my money was on that bank in Iceland that went bankrupt....ouch. . With a bit of luck I get in back next year, but than i need it to pay my house.

   
Oct 17th 2008 at 04:24:18 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: I got back my real identity . It is a great feeling to be Gergő again... Great strategy. I may try it. According to my opinion efficiency should be of key importance in my improvement, as well (how beautiful formal phrase! ). Once I will beat your 70... BTW. Can you come to Budapest for the championship? It would be nice to meet you.

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Oct 17th 2008 at 01:42:28 AM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

very nice ronny, I also think you're on the right track training-wise.

some more things that you could try if you're trying to actively focus on training certain aspects of your style:
-play some games in total control
play some games at a speed where you conciously evaluate your decisions. this helps a lot with improving consistency.
-play some games with no regard to speed whatsoever, but think about efficiency
for a session, while you play, always think for a while to find the most efficient solution, and use it.
This includes not using any flags you would usually not use efficiently.

I know I've said this before, but I don't think you can say that often enough :D and I#m sure it helped me a lot.

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Oct 17th 2008 at 12:22:49 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: Thanks. Hehe no rocket, cause my click speed actually went down this week. All I did was focus more on different aspects of my gameplay to see what needed improving.

So for training purposes:
- I analyzed some of KAmils intermediate 3BVs vids to see what parts of my gameplay could easily be improved. (i.e. IOE is really near perfect)
- I did some IOE training to reduce the wasted clicks by replaying some of my high 3BVs boards till I solved them sup3 and with a IOE of sup0,8.
- I played some sub45-boards in cheat mode to get used to low 3BV boards.
- For pure speed I've played beginner for a few hours.

Seems to pay of pretty well.

BTW, I see you finally are named Gergő again instead of GergA.

   
Oct 16th 2008 at 11:12:52 PM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: You surely have eaten a magic rocket to improve so fast Big grats and welcome back to Minesweeper!

@all: I made yesterday a 73 (third best) and a 75 (seventh best) NF exp in an hour...

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Oct 16th 2008 at 03:36:44 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

FL 74.786 (3BV=152) / NF 70,882 (3BV=131) -> FL 70.477 (3BV=144)

Best intermediate:  

FL 18.246 (3BV=37) -> FL 18,055 (3BV=38)

Best beginner:  

FL 3,242 (3BV=5) -> FL 3,133 (3BV=7)

Comments:  

Improved all 3 flagging time records this same week
(in total improved 14 of the 24 records in Clone this week).

My intermediate record came totally out of the blue because I wasn't even trying to be quick and was just working on my IOE (just had a IOE=0,913 with 2,944 3BVs a minute before the record)

Shortly after that I played a few expert boards for about 5 minutes and didn't notice I was going fast at all, but suddenly I got a pop-up saying I broke my overall time record and my flagging IOS and RQP.

Funny thing was that I'd almost improved my 3BVs record on that 3BV=144 board......off course that didn't happen because my FL 2,1xx record is cursed, cause I blasted about 5 boards on 2,3xx - 2,5xx on the last 2 clicks now.

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Oct 16th 2008 at 09:22:01 AM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

@damien:
It isn't hard (or very time-consuming) to write a guestbook that works properly, if you want me to I'll write one (just to get rid of this :P)
AFAIK you have php on there and I know php, so write me an email if youre interested ;)

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Oct 16th 2008 at 07:37:44 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

This isn't the free version?

   
Oct 16th 2008 at 06:14:02 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

i agree it is getting worse .... unfortunately, the free version has pop-up ads

   
Oct 16th 2008 at 05:23:57 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Bertie: Yeah somehow every update that bravenet makes is somehow worse than the previous one. I still haven't got a clue why they started using flash for such a simply thing as a guestbook and also I haven't got a clue what's the purpose of the repeating comment 'be the first blah blah'. On the other hand it's free, so i guess it's better than nothing.

   
Oct 15th 2008 at 02:59:54 PM
Name:  

Bertie

Best expert:  

3.48 (I think)

Best intermediate:  

4.1XX (I think)

Best beginner:  

5.004 (I think)

Comments:  

Don't you just love how bravenet ensures that there tools don't have irritating repeating lines which appear after each and every post and mean absolutely nothing? Be the first to reply to this and...

Anyway. I haven't really been keeping score of my 3bv/s total, but it seems to be healthy at over 12.

Ok, bye.

   
Oct 15th 2008 at 03:10:26 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Best beginner:  

NF 3BV=4,189 -> 4,320 (3BV=13, Time = 4,009)

Comments:  

Getting closer to the 10 3BVs sum

Flag = 4,393 + 3,246 + 2,112 = 9,751
NF= 4,320 + 3,124 + 2,227 = 9,671

See attached link for vids
Overall = 4,393 + 3,246 + 2,227 = 9,866

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Oct 14th 2008 at 02:08:11 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Best intermediate:  

4x4x4: 2:59->2:54->2:47

Comments:  

Closing in on you, Kamil.

   
Oct 14th 2008 at 01:21:33 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

43,75

Comments:  

Just made my 2nd best time score: 44,11 FL on 151.
@Damien: good job
@all: I go for a 3-day trip, so no me here
Also got 264 3bv board !! in my folder in "Funny boards"

   
Oct 14th 2008 at 01:10:20 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@damien:

   
Oct 14th 2008 at 11:29:00 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

i added flags and uploaded 2909 videos to the world ranking. (if any of you find a missing video please send it to me - thanks!)

i am also happy, because after playing minesweeper hardcore this week i made my first sub50 since June (when I had to buy a new computer and mouse). i am still finding the new mouse very difficult, but made a lot of improvement this week

   
Oct 14th 2008 at 12:06:22 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

5x5x5: 7:47

Best intermediate:  

4x4x4: 2:35 (about 10 sub3)

Best beginner:  

3x3x3: 23s , 0:25s

Comments:  

2x2x2: 4s
@Elmar: Im faster on 3x3 and 4x4, but 2x slower on 5x5
btw, Lukasz made 44x5 yestarday, it seems he wants to beat my 43
@Damien: Lukasz forgot his loginname and password to videofolder, can u email him a new ones?

   
Oct 13th 2008 at 03:49:04 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

5x5x5: 3:40

Best intermediate:  

4x4x4: 3:06 -> 2:59

Best beginner:  

3x3x3: 0:26

Comments:  

Hehe, finally got some silicon spray and tuned my 4x4x4 cube. Still got plenty of room for improvement, but at least I can sort of do some fingertricks now.

   
Oct 13th 2008 at 01:22:55 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best beginner:  

1x31 -> x32

Comments:  

1,78 on 2.
today I made 3,98 3bvs on exp 2 times ( 1x 3,98, 1x 4,07 but found last square @ 3,98)
also 100/120 est 38, because I cuck
@Damien: can u add in News about Vienna that I was not only 5th to sub50, but also 1st to sub50 NF?
@All: if anybody wants to play on minesweeperlive with me, write to me on msn: superzombie@op.pl

   
Oct 12th 2008 at 11:22:10 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Rogen's 42*

   
Oct 12th 2008 at 11:21:35 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Fritz: big congrats :D
@Damien:
1. Can u update Rogen's 43 from a tournament? Im ranked @ 7, but I should be 8th ( 1-10-43 loses with 1-10-42)
2. My 43 isnt linked in world ranking
3. Lukasz's player profile is still unavailable from world ranking (its only from country r.)

   
Oct 12th 2008 at 04:22:28 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

website updated ... i didn't update last week because only 5 people sent scores, but a lot of people made records this week - congrats!

   
Oct 12th 2008 at 02:59:45 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Fritz: congrats, that's pretty insane

@Gale: Welcome in this minesweeper nerd paradise

I've been sweeping again and worked on my IOE and immediately broke a bunch of old records...these are the main once:

Beg FL time 3,2s -> 3.133s (3BV=7)
Int FL Time 18,6 -> 18.246 (3BV=37, 3BVs=2.145)
Int NF 3BVs 3,017 -|> 3,090 - > 3,10 -> 3.124 (3BV=78, Time=25.971)
Int NF IOS 1.35333 -> 1.35398 (3BV=78, Time=25.971)
Int NF RQP 7,0 -> 6.687 (3BV=46, Time=18.046)


   
Oct 12th 2008 at 11:08:49 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

just broke sub20 barrier in squaro tournament

i finished the 3 boards in (6+6+7) 19s

it were 3 of the easiest boards i have ever played in squaro but i have to admit that i lost a second o a stupid misclick in the 3rd board . so actualy i should have finished in at least 18s.

note: i got the 19 right in the 1st minute after i started playing squaro today

   
Oct 11th 2008 at 12:05:55 PM
Name:  

Gale

Best expert:  

87

Best intermediate:  

26

Best beginner:  

9

Comments:  

I've wondered whether or not there were minesweeper groups of some time - thought about how I might organize a minesweeper tournament - sat alone at my computer trying to avoid bombs for hours - until I finally entered "minesweeper" into google and found this website. I don't play other computer games - I'm too old to have played video games growing up - I'd just like to say hello to all the minesweeper geeks out there and take solace in knowing - I AM NOT ALONE!

Thank you.

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Oct 11th 2008 at 11:34:16 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Ive just blasted 8 hours and didnt get any record

   
Oct 10th 2008 at 07:06:16 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Gergely: probably I will come, but I will give the final answer in next week btw, 120/150 est 40

   
Oct 9th 2008 at 11:05:45 PM
Name:  

GergA?

Comments:  

@Kamil: Great work! Congrats a lot. Soon 42 comes!
@Gergely: I am also interested but I have'nt any chance to win anything
@all: an important barrier was broken on tuesday on beginner: my first sup 4. 4,127 on a 14 board in 4,392. Previous record was 3,859 on a 15 board in 4,887. Slowly but surely sup 10 sum is approaching I am around 9,7 now.

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Oct 9th 2008 at 03:19:58 PM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

I'm extremely interested, I'll come if my parents let me.

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Oct 9th 2008 at 12:50:03 PM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

News of the tournament: PRIZES.
Still under construction because not every sponsor made their offers for the Budapest Game Show, but some things are for sure:
- players ranked 1-8 get some prizes
- winner surely gets a Microsoft Sidewinder X6 keyboard and a Sidewinder X5 mouse, plus some new PC game softwares, but still waiting for the decision if he/she also gets an xbox. Other gadgets can be among the prizes, too, but the aforementioned sponsors of the whole event will decide that.
Updates coming next week. Please let me know if You are interested! thx

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Oct 9th 2008 at 12:02:57 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@kamil: grats. nice video

@all squaro players: today i set new overall records in both squaro tournaments

22=====>21 in the normal tournament and 105==>85(previous best time ever was 86s by rigel)============>78s in the "tournoi des champions"

also i uploaded 3 more videos of me playing the normal squaro tournament to youtube ()(a 29s game, a 27s game and a 25s game)

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Oct 9th 2008 at 06:26:41 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

111/131 est 40 NF, because I suck

   
Oct 9th 2008 at 05:00:00 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

10x17 -> x18

Comments:  

Arbiter: 10,71 NF on 42

   
Oct 8th 2008 at 09:20:31 PM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Haha Manu the Nanny :D

   
Oct 8th 2008 at 11:34:51 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

exp 43s youtubed and linked- with a very unholy song "Christraping Black Metal" from a very unholy album "Panzer Division Marduk" of very unholy true norwegian black metal band "Marduk" Everbody should give 5*

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Oct 8th 2008 at 05:54:58 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@KAmil: Big congrats and well deserved after about 50 sub50's it sure was time for a new record.

   
Oct 8th 2008 at 05:05:51 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

44NF -> 43,75 FL

Comments:  

Poland record Arbiter: 43,75 on 167 @ 3,9, technique: "KAmil's technique pwn-to-pwn plus" linked
@fritz: ask Manu to go to Budapest, then he can take u

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Oct 7th 2008 at 01:33:40 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@gergely & christoph: thx guys ! but my dad already has made different plans for that weekend right after we checked the offers by deutsche bahn and this means that i definetely won't be able to take part since my parents would never allow me to travel alone to budapest
i don't really know what to say about it anymore

   
Oct 7th 2008 at 12:19:18 PM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

@Fritz: sent you a mail regarding cheaper options for train. It's like 58 euros plus packaging and it's return

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Oct 7th 2008 at 12:18:32 PM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@Fritz: you'll get it WAY cheaper! I guess you're younger than 26, thus it would pay to get an austiran Vorteilscard<26 for 19 EUR. I don't know the exact prices, but I estimate it's 15 or 20 EUR from Salzburg to Vienna and if you book early enough it's 19 EUR from there to Budapest, I don't know about Munich to Salzburg but I'd estimate 10 EUR. So you get one direction for about 50 EUR.
It's also likely that you can get a CityStarTicket for 29 EUR per direction or a weekend Ticket (last I used that from Regensburg to Vienna and back) for 50 EUR.

   
Oct 7th 2008 at 10:16:37 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@gergely. from munich:...train from munich to budapest would cost ~200 euro i guess and train from budapest back to munich would cost ~250 euro...

   
Oct 7th 2008 at 05:18:40 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

4th sup7 NF: 7,2 on 16 board

   
Oct 7th 2008 at 01:52:56 AM
Name:  

GergA?

Comments:  

@joni: You are right with the names. That is really Eduard between Sam and Johnny. I made soma pictures about Jon, as we were room-mates. The reason why I did not make many pictures about myself, that I know my face very well The main points were the participants and the interesting things (at least for me interesting).

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Oct 7th 2008 at 12:22:36 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

@Fritz: did you consider coming by train? From which part of Germany would you come?

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Oct 6th 2008 at 04:16:12 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Wow, Edu was in Vienna?!
Btw, those pictures from inside the train... very exciting...

   
Oct 6th 2008 at 04:16:10 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

Good job Gergö sad there's no curling photos though...
You confused me at first... i thought Jon was you, and I was asking myself "wft? i thought he had long hair!!" I then remembered you were sharing the room with Jon (so the guy featuring in most photos has to be him )... funny one had to go through 40 photos to finally find a pic of you .

I think i can figure out who almost everybody is... For Ronny pic 27 28: left side of the table going from nearest to the farthest then clockwise: the czech trio: Robert(Nikolaj), Klara (Alliska), Jan (Maruda); then Gergely, Jon (barely visible), WP and then Reid on the short side. Christoph's gf (i guess...), Christoph, Tommy, Sam (Samantha, Reid's sister), Eduard Cros (educated guess), Johnny?--the friend of Sam and Reid making the documentary? (guess by exclusion really)... now the only question left is who is the one who's 99% out of the picture on the bottom-right? the only one i can see is missing from the previous photos is Andreas, Christoph's brother, but it doesn't seem to be him... so I'll go for another wild guess by exclusion and say Arsen =).
We'll see how many i got right...

btw, KAmil feels more like a ghost presence really... are you sure he was there or did you all just immagine him?

   
Oct 6th 2008 at 02:21:19 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

Nevermind, the end of the link didn't show of my screen, I attached link to make it easier

Isn't there a group photo with name tags...I haven't got a clue who's who on those pictures.

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Oct 6th 2008 at 02:13:15 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergo: a working link would nice though

   
Oct 6th 2008 at 02:05:21 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

it looks like i won't be able to take part in the budapest tournament. travel would cost ~500 eur and that is way to much, considering that i wouldn't even be able to stay for a bit more than 24 hours.....

   
Oct 6th 2008 at 12:48:46 PM
Name:  

GergA?

Comments:  

Dear Sweepers. Here you can watch photos, which I made about and around Vienna Tournament. There are some wind power plants as they are not abundant at all in the eastern part of Hungary whrere I live, so I had to make some pictures about them

http://picasaweb.google.com/vodilagergely/ViennaTournament20080920

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Oct 6th 2008 at 12:24:34 PM
Name:  

Bertie

Comments:  

I really got into the zone today. I finished like 3xsub55 in under an hour with one of them out of this world!. It was a 51 on a 133 (or something like that. The first 15-20 seconds I was keeping the est. time steady at 35sec!!!!!!! It was at about 20sec that I realized that it was a good board and paniced my way to a 51 It should at least have been my third sub50

But oh well, I'm just pleased that my vid's are starting to look like those of the top guns (except for the occasional jitter bug - get it )

Ok, bye.

   
Oct 6th 2008 at 06:11:48 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@KAmil: You're welcome.

   
Oct 6th 2008 at 05:27:34 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best beginner:  

1x30 -> x31

Comments:  

1,95 on5
@Ronny:

   
Oct 6th 2008 at 05:17:10 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@KAmil: The more irrelevant news posts you ask to create, the less people will value your achievement when you actually do set a great new WR. Achievements like 30x1 may off course be posted in posted in the guestbook or added to your profile, but don't belong in the news section. News is not for personal achievements and non-official records types.

You should realize that every active minesweeper will blasts records almost every day or otherwise achieves some sort of personal goal like 2nd best 3bv, 3rd best time, 10th sub20, 2nd sub 3, best time on arbiter, clone, X............just because all your records happen to be WR blasts and worlds first to achieve something, it doesn't make them any more special as anyone elses personal achievements.

   
Oct 6th 2008 at 04:56:34 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best beginner:  

1x29 -> x30

Comments:  

Arbiter: 1,97 on 5 1st to win 1x30
@Damien: can u write in news?

   
Oct 5th 2008 at 11:58:12 PM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

@Kamil: let's talk about it on friday. Remind me then.

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Oct 5th 2008 at 10:54:30 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Gergely: what will be prizes in Budapest? I didnt find any sponsor for travell to Budapest and my father wont drive me there if the prize is less expensive than travell

   
Oct 5th 2008 at 10:32:34 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best beginner:  

1x28 -> x29

Comments:  

Arbiter: 1,96 on 5
Also my 2nd best FL 3BV/s: 7,76 on 26.
@Damien: I guess u will update today, dont forget about my 7,27 NF

   
Oct 5th 2008 at 07:49:43 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

You would have been happy if you had solved it at 3,99 either

   
Oct 4th 2008 at 12:32:35 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Arbiter: 51,33 NF 201/203 @ 3,99 lost on a fvcking guess.

   
Oct 4th 2008 at 05:38:26 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

110/141 est 38

   
Oct 4th 2008 at 05:27:44 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Joni: Maybe that isn't such a bad idea, if you can't figure out what causes the crash. As you said yourself, the download counter is already unreliable due to resets, web crawlers and search engines, so maybe it would be easiest for you when you disable it?

   
Oct 4th 2008 at 01:11:57 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@joni 99% of m vids have number of downloads 0 mabe it would be good idea to turn off download counter, mabe it makes vids break down

   
Oct 3rd 2008 at 01:06:12 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@All: I saw KAmil's mistake....I understand why you don't post it......last time I blasted a 0,3 3BVs improvement on the last stupid click without guess I pressed F2 10 times to erase it

   
Oct 3rd 2008 at 01:00:49 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

4,02

Comments:  

Arbieter: 49,41 208/209 @ 4,29 I wont send the vid because everybody would laugh, I have got no idea how could I blast it in such idiotic way
anyway, I had quite good day today: 47x2, 4th sup5 NF on int, 2x sup 6,7 NF on beg in about 3 minutes playing, and solved 244 3bv board!! in 62s @ 3,96 3BV/s (my 2nd best)
After playing 1 month on Arbiter, I will write down some stats:
Beginner: 244 games, av time: 3,46s, av 3bv/s: 5,19
Intermediate: 126 games:, av time: 15,00s , av 3bv/s: 4,26
Expert: 21 games, av time: 51,10s, av 3bv/s: 3,40

   
Oct 3rd 2008 at 11:05:01 AM
Name:  

Martin Asal

Comments:  

Hello,

there is a new Minesweeper homepage online:

www.games2relax.net/minesweeper

There are several interesting levels: The field musn't be a rectangle necessarily ;-)

I'd be glad, if you'd like my new site!

cu
Martin

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Oct 3rd 2008 at 09:49:50 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

Bertie... to be fair to Damien that was the first thing one saw written in bold when visiting the site till the Vienna results came along (I always use the metanoodle entrance by old habit that is...) And looking at the .info entrance it appears to have been in the news all september there too... so give to Damien what is Damien's and let KAmil be KAmil one may say

Talking of .info, can't someone write some Vienna-reviews or anything one can call an article really -- i.e. quoting Damien "Math papers, Tournament announcments, Game reviews and Rants...this is the largest collection of Minesweeper articles on the net!".
I can't believe mine is still on top of that list (one year later )... and seeing it being listed under Fakes isn't fun at all.

vc:KGBH = KGB Huh?

   
Oct 3rd 2008 at 08:04:29 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Its quite long time since I posted youtubed vid with pop-up window, but now I send 2 :
my sup4 on exp: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=xTV6eKH18ho
My 7,27 NF on beg: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu7xnEQM_7M

   
Oct 3rd 2008 at 04:49:35 AM
Name:  

Bertie

Best expert:  

46.81 :) Still loving it + RQP record

Comments:  

Hey all !!! I finaly have the time to put up a proper ost on the gb. I've been super busy the last month or so after being elected to my university's student counsil cultural comittee. My portfolio on the comittee is Webmaster and Gearmanagement (don't really know how to translate 'Toerusting' to english :B ) I did have time to play the last week or so though and was pleasantly surprised with one of my best games to date, my second sub50! [48.67 on 143 @2.99 with 0.94 IOE] I think all in all this game might actually have been better than the 46.

Oh BTW, @Damien: I hate to sound all KAmil'y, but you forgot to mention that that 46 was the first sub50 in Africa. I can proudly say that I'm the only person on the continent to have subbed 50. The only other player that can say that is Dion, of course. (go Andrew go :D )

Ok, that's all for now, except congrats to Tommy and Kamil for winning therespective events, and to Reid, Christoph and Arsen for placing.

ok, bye.

   
Oct 3rd 2008 at 02:42:20 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

*185=200

   
Oct 3rd 2008 at 02:36:30 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@CHRIS: You're not the only one not playing to be fast, but to solve difficult boards. I believe the record is 221 (See attached link), so yes, 185 should be possible.

(I'm not gonna try it because I don't have the patience to think before I click for such a long time)

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Oct 3rd 2008 at 02:14:39 AM
Name:  

CHRIS

Comments:  

Everyone talks about best times at either beginner, intermediate or expert, these I have all completedwith my best time being 750 for expert, which appears to be slow compared to others. However I am having major difficulty on "Custom" when I max the screen to its largest and put 200 bombs in play. I have completed it at 150, 175 and 185bombs. I have now played a this level for 2 years without getting past this level. Has anyone completed this?

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Oct 3rd 2008 at 12:54:06 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@fritz: Jamie Cope. Perry played badly and lost to a week Ronnie. (Jamie lost also.)

@all: Don't forget, it's the final day of the AR today - The deadline will probably shift to about midnight since I'll play two curling matches this evening.

   
Oct 3rd 2008 at 12:41:06 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

Still no internet on my new pc, but at least most minesweeper versions (vienna, arbiter and clone) still seem to run on Vista....although arbiter is still not great. On my old PC arbiter simply frooze my pc after 1 click....on my new pc it starts opening squares incredibly fast, but within 5-10 minutes it sometimes takes up to 1second to open a square, so it looks like it has some sort of major memory leak, because a 3Ghz dual core processor, shouldn't have a problem opening a square, lol.

Only problem is that I can't get my mouse speed fine tuned correctly. Now it's a little too fast, but one step slower is too slow. And when i enable advanced game settings, then even the slowest speed is still slightly too fast.

@fritz: hehe keep dreaming

@Damien: Clone on my Vista PC doesn't have errors when closing so far.

   
Oct 2nd 2008 at 04:43:20 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@gergely: and what about extra prizes by microsoft for special scores?
perry - a snooker player (top10 of the world now) - won 20.000 pounds today for scoring a maximum break (a perfect frame - 147 points).i mean sth like prizes for sub15 ints or sub60 exps during the tournament. do you think it would be possible to convince mircosoft hungaria to offer that?

   
Oct 2nd 2008 at 01:34:43 PM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

@Kamil: well... no. We're not there yet. But why don't you ask Microsoft Poland?

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Oct 2nd 2008 at 01:21:49 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

next sup7: 7,27 FL on a 19 board
@Gergely: so, can Microsoft Hungary sponsor my travel to Budapset by giving me 100 euro?

   
Oct 2nd 2008 at 05:05:52 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Miscoroft .NET is already installed on Vista. I can watch videos easy....the problem is when you close the Clone you get 5 error messages.

   
Oct 1st 2008 at 04:05:15 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

BTW, I did check Vista's minesweeper....OMG completely unplayable, so let's hope Clone works on Vista.

   
Oct 1st 2008 at 04:01:33 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@joni: Sorry, no luck so far in breaking the system. Maybe I'll have more luck tomorrow because to day I received my new PC and basically nothing works as it should be (**** vista!) so i didnt have much time to try things. Also internet wont work on new pc for the next 2 weeks, because modem is to old for vista and to wait for a new one.......so that doesn't help either in trying.

   
Oct 1st 2008 at 01:16:52 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

I was hoping it was Ronny who had managed to break down the system ... but unfortunately that is not the case... we have someone who's very good at it though, since he/she/it has managed to do so twice in a row in a couple of days. I would be very grateful if it is a person (and not a web crawler... since we get many of those too), presumably from Heilongjiang province of China, to please come forward and say how does he/she manage to do it =)
I promise not to hurt or otherwise abuse them but their feedback would be much appreciated so that we can fix this problem!!

@Gergö/Gergely discussion: The system is very straightforward and since this is not a WCh but an exhibition event that is how it should be! Thumbs up !

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Oct 1st 2008 at 12:57:46 PM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

@Gergely that sounds cool :D

So you don't mind people participating in that kind of KO system? I mean, I (as an international player) don't want to kick out whoever would otherwise be hungarian champion in the quarterfinals... and I'll probably be there.

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Oct 1st 2008 at 12:21:23 PM
Name:  

fritz

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@gergely and gergö: it's not even that unfair in my opinion. so far i tried the 9 game time trial 5 times. first 2 attempts were with some bad misclicks but also some bad luck with the exp patterns still solved in 6min and 6.5 min. then i couldn't finish the exp game in the 3rd timetrial due to too many misclicks - there were surely enough boards that i should have easily finished. then i was warmed up and did 4.3min and 3.6 min in 4th and 5th attempt. i like the fact that this mode requires only 1 exp game to be solved since this is easily possible for most sweepers in 5min (assuming that it shouldn't take anyone more than 3 min to solve the beg and int parts).
@hungarian open participants: i plan to arrive on saturday by train at around 9.30 and plan to depart on sunday at around 13:00. any plans for getting to the event together/hotel/sightseeing/etc...???????

   
Oct 1st 2008 at 07:50:52 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@joni: vid broke down

   
Oct 1st 2008 at 06:26:18 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Just blasted est9 x2 few clicks to the end, also 80% solved board on exp with sup 4,3 3bvs, because I suck.
@Gergely: can Microsoft Hungarian sponsor me about 100 euro?

   
Oct 1st 2008 at 05:25:58 AM
Name:  

GergA?

Comments:  

@Kamil: I checked that there is a train, which arrives to Budapest at 8:32 am. It starts from Warszawa at 20:53 (it has many connections from several cities in Poland). I checked, Katowice is close to your residence (I think), and a direct train starts there at 22:32 on friday. If I should check another depatrure place, just ask me to do. The price of the travel will be 73,20 euro here and back. You should sleep on the train, but travel won't be so boring this way . From Budapest Keleti railway station the U-bahn number 2 directly carries you to the Moszkva square, which is in the vicinity of the tournament (~ 10-15 minutes walk). If you ask, we can solve to pick you up somewhere. You can get to the tournament maximum 9:30 am. Back to Poland there is a train, which starts at 8:00 pm and gets to Katowice directly at 4:18 am on sunday. Just think it over, and if I can help you, just send a mail

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Oct 1st 2008 at 04:41:17 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

@Kamil: ummm... it's not like that everyone have to show up at 9 at the morning. As I said this will be a "hot-seat" system and there will be only a maximum of 4 sweepers playing at the same time. So if you can only come at 13:00, I'll reserve you a place But not after 14:00 when the playoffs (presumably) start

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Oct 1st 2008 at 03:08:37 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Gergely: would it be possible to start @ 13-14? Im not sure if I can come @ 9

   
Oct 1st 2008 at 12:59:15 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

@Kamil: yes, that's what I thought as well. Finishing an intermediate (with a good score) is not that hard even in NF mode. The event opens at 09:00 and I plan to close the qualification / free play phase at 14:00. We won't have a bunch of computers (presumably 4, max 5 due to lack of space) meaning that a max of 5*4*5 people can participate. If there's an opening in the schedule, registered players have the advantage to have a second attempt After this, we start the time trials and that will be half an hour each game. First round is 4 matches, which is 1 hour if all goes into third set, second round is 2 matches, another half hour and there comes the final at the main stage at around 15:30-16:00. However, the schedule has not been set yet so there could be changes to it.
@Gergo: no, it's not fair but far from being very unfair. It's not just about one set in the knockout phase. It has significantly lower chance that one player lucks into TWO easy boards while the faster player just has bad boards. We don't have neither the space nor the time to have anything else (see above) and also, we don't have the opportunity to explain a formula that is any more complex than this
So there could be some slight changes in the rules until the competition but the basic principles are set like these. Everyone, please prepare for these

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Oct 1st 2008 at 12:49:31 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Thy Cowman was used to play Nonosweeper quite well. My 1st think after watching his 7,05 on beg was that he reprogrammed the mouse to use it like in nono (he clicks once and put mouse down, whats obviously faster than clicking every square)
@Christoph: Ive send u email with more details of my not-downloading vids on ms.cc, but it still doesnt work. Did u get the email?

   


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