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Reply #225 - Feb 7th, 2012 at 12:27am
 
Lol. After less than one minute of playing, I came across a board with a 5 in the top row and a 3 in the row below it and got a nice 0.98.
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Reply #226 - Feb 11th, 2012 at 3:53pm
 
Hi T players,

it seems that after the server problems, the T week ends one day later than before, i.e. on Monday morning in Europe. What are your opinions? Should we shorten one T to get back in the former cycle of Ts ending on Sunday morning in Europe?

I would prefer this...
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Reply #227 - Feb 11th, 2012 at 4:02pm
 
i actually like the tournaments ending on monday morning. having two days in a row to play is imo nuch nicer that getting to play on the first and the last day of a tournament.
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Reply #228 - Feb 11th, 2012 at 5:40pm
 
@EWQM.: Your statement is true. But for persons which are absent on one week-end, it is necessary that they find the time to play on a weekday. This might be different for some persons (like myself Wink).
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Reply #229 - Feb 13th, 2012 at 4:17pm
 
I prefer the old style.
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Reply #230 - Feb 13th, 2012 at 10:03pm
 
I like the old way better too.
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Reply #231 - Feb 17th, 2012 at 5:05pm
 
is it just me having much less time to play or has d1 gotten much tougher? btw, i still haven't maxed out on the current board.
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Reply #232 - Feb 19th, 2012 at 10:14am
 
I think it's a lot tougher in current div1. Might be the first time in history where 4 of 8 div1 players are T season winners.
And have a look at history:
Current div1 players: 206 T wins, 247 rank #2, 238 rank #3 Shocked.
All other former div1 players: 130 T wins, 89 rank #2, 98 rank #3 (of them hexx with 109-47-13 Embarrassed).
I.e. a very high percentage of top3 T ranks has been achieved by current div1 players, which results in a tight race for good ranks.

Luca returned to div1, Lutz is constantly fast, Gabi is hard to beat especially on larger boards, and Manuel and Vladimir are tough rivals on smaller boards. So, for myself, this means that I must play a lot (more than I should) to get an acceptable rank.

P.S. This week, sunday helped a lot to avoid finishing T2 in #6 or #7 Wink. But I still prefer the old style. By now, inofficial poll result is 3:1. Any other opinions to this issue?
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Reply #233 - Feb 19th, 2012 at 5:21pm
 
in my opinion the old style was better. when you donīt have enough time to play during a week and then you go out for a weekend, you have no chance to score a good time
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Reply #234 - Apr 9th, 2012 at 9:17pm
 
too less big boards  Sad
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Reply #235 - May 14th, 2012 at 4:16pm
 
Luca wrote on Apr 9th, 2012 at 9:17pm:
too less big boards  Sad


This season 6 boards end in less than 10 sec
1 in less than 20 sec..

too less variability.
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Reply #236 - May 15th, 2012 at 6:45pm
 
Hi Luca,

I agree that it's too less variability. Might be a setting in Yariv's routine how to define T boards.
Rule was:
The pool of boards has been put into five categories:
1) Big boards
2) Small boards
3) Long rectangles
4) Low mine density
5) Other
Each season will contain 1 board from each category (=5 boards), 1 board from a random category and 2 randomly generated boards.

If this rule is still valid, at least cat. 2 generates a big board. If this would be unluckily something like 40x25/990, you get a low time for this one as well. But expert-style boards would also be possible.

The category "Other" was originally filled mainly with mid-size boards and odd squares per row and/or column. Several of these need at least 20 seconds or more.

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I'm indifferent indeed in the question whether we need more big boards. The problem is that the best players on big boards will win each fight for ranks in season's total when two players having identical sum of points. So, best would be if every board has nearly same time (or at least same gap between #1 and #8)? Don't know...
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Reply #237 - May 15th, 2012 at 9:17pm
 
Thanks Stephan for the answer.  Smiley
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Reply #238 - May 16th, 2012 at 12:42am
 
What display size do you use for this board? Obviously the smaller size is optimal, however it doesnt display properly with the yellow face being very thin, and I end up missing it at the end, so currently I'm playing with medium display.  I would love to get a sub 2 on this board.
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Reply #239 - May 18th, 2012 at 5:03pm
 
Hi NYMike, a solution could be that you update the version. The tiny smiley face was a bug in v2.0, but Yariv corrected that in v2.02 I think.
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