Event | Place and Year [players/countries] | World Champion | Second Rank | Third Rank |
VI | Munich 2010 [6/3] | Stephan Bechtel | EWQMinesweeper | Christoph Nikolaus |
V | Vienna 2008 [6/4] | Robert Farnik | Jan Farnik | Klára Binderová |
IV | Vienna 2007 [9/4] | Stephan Bechtel | Jan Farnik | Robert Farnik |
III | Vienna 2006 [9/6] | Stephan Bechtel | Jan Farnik | Robert Farnik |
II | Budapest 2006 [6/4] | Gero Wälz | Jan Farnik | Robert Farnik |
I | Vienna 2005 [5/4] | Gero Wälz | Stephan Bechtel | Jon Simonsen |
As the Minesweeper World Championship 2010 took place in Munich, my home town, and as Fritz also organized a Nonosweeper tournament, it was a great opportunity for me to fight again for the title of Nonosweeper World Champion. Unfortunately, no one of the Farnik family participated, but nonetheless, with Stephan, EWQMinesweeper and Christoph, three division 1 players were attending the World Championship. The tournament consisted again of eight different boards, like an official tournament season. Every board was played for 10 minutes. |
Here are the results:
Rank | Name | Legs | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | Leg 4 | Leg 5 | Leg 6 | Leg 7 | Leg 8 |
Points | 10x10/70 [EWQM.] | 10x3/7 [Christoph] | 20x20/20 [Stephan] | 5x5/6 [Eva] | 13x5/8 [Bertie] | 15x10/130 [EWQM.] | 40x25/990 [Stephan] | 5x25/100 [Christoph] | ||
Time Total | ||||||||||
1 | Stephan Bechtel | 62 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
50.19 | 12.04 | 1.53 | 10.65 | 1.14 | 1.31 | 7.51 | 5.87 | 10.14 | ||
2 | EWQMinesweeper | 46 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
52.53 | 11.87 | 1.93 | 10.82 | 1.42 | 2.34 | 7.68 | 6.15 | 10.32 | ||
3 | Christoph Nikolaus | 46 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
70.05 | 23.07 | 1.54 | 12.59 | 1.29 | 1.98 | 10.23 | 9.21 | 10.14 | ||
4 | Bertie Seyffert | 27 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
231.05 | 41.99 | 4.71 | 111.28 | 1.87 | 4.09 | 23.95 | 13.59 | 29.57 | ||
5 | Thomas Kolar | 24 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
421.82 | 38.29 | 3.78 | 282.82 | 2.07 | 3.93 | 32.71 | 16.10 | 42.12 | ||
6 | Eva Szepesi | 21 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
371.72 | 74.39 | 3.75 | 172.07 | 2.59 | 4.68 | 70.46 | 19.25 | 24.53 |
Notes: Names in [] show which player suggested the board played in that leg · EWQMinesweeper listed in 2nd place due to lower sum of times · Christoph and Stephan got the same time in 8th leg - 8 points for both of them
This year, I couldn't participate. But like in 2007, the Nonosweeper World Championship consisted of eight different boards, like in a complete tournament season. In absence of any German player, the Czech Republic managed to catch all three medal ranks. After a tight race, Nikolaj beated his brother by one single point, being the new World Champion - congratulations! |
Here are the results (thanks to Christoph):
Rank | Name | Legs | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | Leg 4 | Leg 5 | Leg 6 | Leg 7 | Leg 8 |
Points | 7x13/ 70 | Expert | 5x4/ 4 | 10x12/ 100 | Inter- mediate | 20x4/ 60 | 20x20/ 12 | 8x8/ 50 | ||
Time Total | ||||||||||
1 | Robert Farnik | 54 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
118.39 | 8.28 | 67.40 | 0.75* | 7.89 | 17.26 | 6.07 | 5.79 | 4.95 | ||
2 | Jan Farnik | 53 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
121.62 | 7.75 | 75.34 | 0.76 | 6.92 | 13.07 | 7.35 | 5.84 | 4.59 | ||
3 | Klára Binderová | 40 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
145.24 | 9.28 | 89.50 | 0.75* | 8.62 | 17.84 | 7.20 | 6.35 | 5.70 | ||
4 | Christoph Nikolaus | 35 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
162.32 | 10.82 | 94.76 | 0.98 | 10.45 | 27.29 | 5.37 | 6.73 | 5.92 | ||
5 | Gergely Nagy | 22 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
196.07 | 22.96 | 88.54 | 1.45 | 16.87 | 31.76 | 13.95 | 9.65 | 10.89 | ||
6 | Jon Simonsen | 20 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
415.84 | 15.81 | 317.96 | 1.82 | 10.56 | 31.75 | 14.68 | 17.25 | 6.01 |
* For same times, the earlier submission wins
For the first time, the Nonosweeper World Championship took place on two days. And the Championship mode was changed again: We played a whole tournament season, with eight different boards, each of them for a time slot of 10-30 minutes. As a specialty, every professional player was asked to choose his/her favourite tournament board. Finally, five legs were played on Friday, while Saturday caught the remaining three legs. With Maruda, Nikolaj, Christoph, and myself, 50% of current division 1 players were present. And with Alliska and Gabi, there were female Championship participants for the first time (both well-known division 2 players). After a very tough race and the necessary win in the last leg, I could win the "Vienna tournament season 2007", having three Czech players directly behind me! |
The Top5 (from left to right): Klára Binderová (Alliska) Christoph Marx (Christoph) Jan Farnik (Maruda) Robert Farnik (Nikolaj) Stephan Bechtel (StephanB) |
Here are the results:
Rank | Name | Legs | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | Leg 4 | Leg 5 | Leg 6 | Leg 7 | Leg 8 |
Points | 5x4/ 4 (10 min) | 12x12/ 108 (15 min) | 25x25/ 600 (15 min) | 18x17/ 9 (15 min) | 15x4/ 50 (15 min) | 6x16/ 73 (15 min) | 20x10/ 120 (20 min) | Expert (20 min) | ||
Time Total | ||||||||||
1 | Stephan Bechtel | 53 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 8 |
181.28 | 0.87* | 16.89 | 15.79 | 3.37* | 2.92 | 7.18 | 69.36 | 64.90 | ||
2 | Jan Farnik | 52 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
179.04 | 0.82 | 18.67 | 16.43 | 3.65 | 2.73 | 9.09 | 61.14 | 66.51 | ||
3 | Robert Farnik | 47 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
183.88 | 0.87* | 16.84 | 17.73 | 3.37* | 2.90 | 9.31 | 64.35 | 68.51 | ||
4 | Klára Binderová | 24 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
285.24 | 1.18 | 24.48 | 20.21 | 4.34 | 3.90 | 11.59 | 95.31 | 124.23 | ||
5 | Christoph Marx | 23 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
297.37 | 0.98 | 38.54 | 21.96 | 4.17 | 3.03 | 13.67 | 99.67 | 115.35 | ||
6 | Gergely Nagy | 19 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
269.19 | 1.25 | 37.84 | 34.18 | 6.39 | 6.28 | 15.25 | 90.93 | 77.07 | ||
7 | Gabi Schneider | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
190.14 | - | - | - | - | - | 14.46 | 89.67 | 86.01 | ||
8 | Andreas Marx | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
138.29 | 1.81 | 54.67 | 65.67 | 7.25 | 8.89 | - | - | - | ||
9 | Thomas Kolar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
166.89 | 2.31 | 92.45 | 52.57 | 11.10 | 8.46 | - | - | - |
* For same times, the earlier submission wins
On July 28, 2006, the third Nonosweeper World Championship was held in Vienna again. Although the tournament took place on a friday, I managed to participate and compete with the Czech Nonosweeper legends Maruda and Nikolaj, aka the Farnik brothers, and many other players - in total, the tournament had nine participants! Despite of Gero's absence, the World Champion comes from Germany for another several months, as luckily, I could win the "Vienna tournament season" with four legs! | The Top3 (from left to right): Stephan Bechtel (StephanB) Jan Farnik (Maruda) Robert Farnik (Nikolaj) |
Here are the results:
Rank | Player | Total Points (Legs won) |
Leg 1 (30 min) Intermediate |
Leg 2 (30 min) Expert |
Leg 3 (15 min) 30x3/22 |
Leg 4 (30 min) 20x20/320 | ||||
Pts | Total | Pts | Total | Pts | Total | Pts | Total | |||
1 | Stephan Bechtel | 26 (2) | 5 | 34 | 5 | 153 | 8 | 15.11 | 8 | 163 |
2 | Jan Farnik | 26 (1) | 8 | 32* | 6 | 146 | 6 | 16.24 | 6 | 226 |
3 | Robert Farnik | 24 (1) | 6 | 32* | 8 | 131 | 5 | 20.18 | 5 | 233 |
4 | Gergely Nagy | 13 | 2 | 67 | 4 | 208 | 3 | 34.37 | 4 | 314 |
5 | Christoph Marx | 11 | 4 | 58 | 2 | 315 | 4 | 21.76 | 1 | 500 |
6 | Damien Moore | 9 | 1 | 69 | 3 | 225 | 2 | 58.81 | 3 | 395 |
7 | Manuel Heider | 7 | 3 | 63 | 1 | 377 | 1 | 68.75 | 2 | 411 |
8 | Thomas Kolar | 0 | 0 | 352 | 0 | DNF1 | 0 | 116.89 | 0 | DNF2 |
8 | Jonian Grazhdani | 0 | 0 | 273 | 0 | DNF2 | 0 | DNF1 | 0 | DNF1 |
* Jan Farnik wins leg due to better third time (17) than Robert Farnik (18)
DNF1=One finished game missing for calculating a total · DNF2=Two finished games missing for calculating a total
Detailed results of legs 1+2 (standard levels):
Rank | Player | Leg 1 (30 min): Intermediate | Leg 2 (30 min): Expert | ||||
Total | #1 | #2 | Total | #1 | #2 | ||
1 | Stephan Bechtel | 34 | 17 | 17 | 153 | 74 | 79 |
2 | Jan Farnik | 32 | 15 | 1717 | 146 | 69 | 77 |
3 | Robert Farnik | 32 | 16 | 1618 | 131 | 65 | 66 |
4 | Gergely Nagy | 67 | 33 | 34 | 208 | 99 | 109 |
5 | Christoph Marx | 58 | 26 | 32 | 315 | 135 | 180 |
6 | Damien Moore | 69 | 34 | 35 | 225 | 111 | 114 |
7 | Manuel Heider | 63 | 30 | 33 | 377 | 168 | 209 |
8 | Thomas Kolar | 352 | 151 | 201 | DNF1 | 967 | DNF |
8 | Jonian Grazhdani | 273 | 118 | 155 | DNF2 | DNF | DNF |
DNF1=One finished game missing for calculating a total · DNF2=Two finished games missing for calculating a total
Detailed results of legs 3+4 (custom boards):
Rank | Player | Leg 3 (15 min): 30x3/22 | Leg 4 (30 min): 20x20/320 | ||||
Total | #1 | #2 | Total | #1 | #2 | ||
1 | Stephan Bechtel | 15.11 | 7.51 | 7.60 | 163 | 79 | 84 |
2 | Jan Farnik | 16.24 | 7.76 | 8.48 | 226 | 112 | 114 |
3 | Robert Farnik | 20.18 | 9.34 | 10.84 | 233 | 106 | 127 |
4 | Gergely Nagy | 34.37 | 16.70 | 17.67 | 314 | 145 | 169 |
5 | Christoph Marx | 21.76 | 10.26 | 11.50 | 500 | 222 | 278 |
6 | Damien Moore | 58.81 | 28.81 | 30.00 | 395 | 186 | 209 |
7 | Manuel Heider | 68.75 | 30.32 | 38.43 | 411 | 197 | 214 |
8 | Thomas Kolar | 116.89 | 47.00 | 69.89 | DNF2 | DNF | DNF |
8 | Jonian Grazhdani | DNF1 | 101.28 | DNF | DNF1 | 428 | DNF |
DNF1=One finished game missing for calculating a total · DNF2=Two finished games missing for calculating a total
On February 26, 2006, the second Nonosweeper World Championship was held in Budapest. This time, I couldn't participate, but with three division 1 players and two division 2 players, it was a nice competition anyway. And as the Czech brothers Maruda (#2) and Nikolaj (#3) couldn't beat Gero, he managed to get World Champion for the second time!
Here are the results:
Rank | Player | Total Time | Total Int | Int #1 | Int #2 | Int #3 | Int #4 | Int #5 | Total Exp | Exp #1 | Exp #2 | Exp #3 | Exp #4 | Exp #5 |
1 | Gero Wälz | 419 | 81 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 338 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 69 | 70 |
2 | Jan Farnik | 424 | 85 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 339 | 63 | 67 | 67 | 69 | 73 |
3 | Robert Farnik | 505 | 89 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 416 | 80 | 81 | 84 | 85 | 86 |
4 | Gergely Nagy | 716 | 167 | 31 | 32 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 549 | 91 | 97 | 112 | 124 | 125 |
5 | Christoph Marx | 1394 | 298 | 50 | 56 | 59 | 64 | 69 | 1096 | 184 | 192 | 208 | 245 | 267 |
6 | Dàniel Füleki | 708* | 708 | 119 | 125 | 134 | 135 | 195 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
* Put in last place due to not having finished five expert games
On August 13, 2005, the first Nonosweeper World Championship was held in Vienna. Finally, five players from four countries and of all three divisions participated. To get champion, a player had to get the lowest sum of 5 intermediate and 5 expert games within a playing session of 120 minutes.
There were lots of good performances, and finally, the big favourite Gero Wälz from Germany could easily win the Championship with a sum of 448 seconds (average int time of 16.4 and average expert time of 73.2 seconds). I managed to finish in second position, with a gap of 91 seconds to Gero, but also a gap of 117 seconds to Jon Simonsen, who finished on #3. Gergely Nagy (aka "Greg") could improve his personal best in intermediate. And Christoph Marx who organized the tournament got a victim of playing nonosweeper too rarely.
So, hopefully, within the next Minesweeper World Championship (which took place right after the Nonosweeper session), there will be again a Nonosweeper World Championship, possibly with a greater number of participants! I can only say that it is a great pleasure to meet other players personally and compete with them, everyone sitting in the same room!
Here are the results:
Rank | Player | Total Time | Total Int | Int #1 | Int #2 | Int #3 | Int #4 | Int #5 | Total Exp | Exp #1 | Exp #2 | Exp #3 | Exp #4 | Exp #5 |
1 | Gero Wälz | 448 | 82 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 366 | 70 | 70 | 72 | 77 | 77 |
2 | Stephan Bechtel | 539 | 94 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 445 | 85 | 85 | 89 | 91 | 95 |
3 | Jon Simonsen | 656 | 105 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 551 | 103 | 106 | 111 | 114 | 117 |
4 | Gergely Nagy | 802 | 185 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 617 | 104 | 120 | 123 | 132 | 138 |
5 | Christoph Marx | 2141 | 554 | 90 | 94 | 115 | 126 | 129 | 1587 | 331 | 480 | 776 | - | - |