Subject: vishna lives
Date: Wed Mar 7 13:46:25 2007
User: CubicSprock
Message:welcome back vishna. way to come back in style with a win!!
Date: Wed Mar 7 19:00:37 2007
User: mabb
Message:Were you the second place finisher, CS? hehehe...you don't have to answer that one! ;)
Glad to see you back, vishna...hope the family's doing well! Hope to meet up with you in a tourny soon, too!
~mabb~
Link: vishna 's quickie win
Date: Thu Mar 8 17:52:31 2007
User: CubicSprock
Message:no it wasn't me.
but was that you in the last aio?!?!?!?! broke the record by almost 30 seconds...nice job
Date: Fri Mar 9 11:45:56 2007
User: +-Sandy-+
Message:wowie for a pothead to come in 2nd is pretty good. Must be some good stuff
'ear 'ear....cough....cough....wwwooooaaaaa
Date: Fri Mar 9 15:05:21 2007
User: mabb
Message:Yeah, that was me, CS. Thanks! That was cool to set a new record...and hang on to your hat...I started between 30 or 45 seconds late for that one! I was in superman mode, I guess, trying to make up for lost time. I've started WAYYYY too many short tournies 30-60 seconds late, and it's very often disastrous, depending on who's competing.
ANd thanks for correcting that link to the vishna tourny, roo. My link worked only temporarily, I see, until that tournament scrolled off into oblivion. How do you get it to go just to that page, where it doesn't scroll off? Do you call it up by tournament number, and then paste the link? I've never known how to link it differently.
Date: Fri Mar 9 15:39:29 2007
User: CubicSprock
Message:mabb, that's even more impressive.
now onto explaining how to link the tournament. a simple way is once on the quickie (for this case), results page, click more results. from there copy and paste the url. then change the tournament number (last 5 characters of url to the tournament number (+1) of the tournament you want).
you can get that number by hovering over the game stats (and it should appear in the status bar), or by clicking on the game stats of that tournament and getting it from the url.
alternatively you don't need to use more results, but you would need to know the theme identifier
basic url:
http://www.freecell.com/f/c/tourpast.html?theme=XX&num=YYYYY
XX is the theme identifier (works with or without leading zeros if it is less than 10). and YYYYY is the tournament number + 1 (have to go plus one b/c of the way it searches...does tournaments less than the number, not less than or equal to.
Date: Fri Mar 9 15:45:50 2007
User: roo.
Message:mabb, you need to click on "More results" to get the relevant info into the Address bar. Find the tourney number you want by hovering over "game stats" and then edit the address bar. However, the exact tourney number doesn't work - you need to have a slightly higher number. Note that I used 51307 to get vishna's 51306.
Date: Fri Mar 9 15:47:49 2007
User: roo.
Message:I didn't know CS was also answering this.
Date: Fri Mar 9 15:50:34 2007
User: CubicSprock
Message:2 answers is better than none!!
hmm, just thought why the past results works that way with the tournament numbers...I'll bet denny does it to make the more results link easier by assigning it the same identifier as that of the last shown tournament on the current page. makes sense...though a -1 and less than or equal to would do the same trick and eliminate the confusion for manual searching.
Date: Fri Mar 9 16:08:58 2007
User: mabb
Message:Hey, thanks to both of you!
Now let me try a bit of practice on this manuever....I'm trying to link to the page which will show the AIO result that you noticed, CS (if we're talking about the same one, and I think we must be). So, let's see if this will work....
Link: AIO result
Date: Fri Mar 9 16:16:58 2007
User: mabb
Message:It worked! That's cool!
One note though, for any others trying it: in Java, hovering over "game stats" does not reveal the tourny number, nor does anything change (for me) in the status bar. I'm assuming it's because I'm on the Java side, but I don't know for sure. However, I can readily find the tourny # by hovering the cursor over the box which has the Start Time/End time, at the top of the specified tournament. And then you still have to remember to add the "1".
Thanks again, guys.
Date: Fri Mar 9 17:02:11 2007
User: CubicSprock
Message:hmm, it wouldn't be java related since the results pages are independent of the game type. It could be browser related, though it shows up for me in both internet explorer & firefox. regardless, it doesn't really matter since you discovered that neat little feature with the pop-up tourney #.
Date: Mon Mar 19 18:49:38 2007
User: mabb
Message:Just bringing this back to the front, vishna, in case you missed it before. It's good to see you playing again. I knew it would be just a matter of time before I lost to you! Congrats!
Date: Mon Mar 19 20:29:08 2007
User: ElGuapo
Message:Vishna enters the AIO ratings in style, but still with plenty of room to move up!
Link: current AIO ratings
Date: Tue Mar 20 13:02:11 2007
User: vishna
Message:Hi ALL! Thanks for the welcome back! It has been so long since I've played. I didn't realize how much I missed everyone and playing freecell. But it looks like I'm back and having fun!
Thanks again for all the nice comments!
vishna
Date: Sun Jan 10 20:29:36 2021
User: Kaos
Message:Welcome back again vishna. I think I may have competed against you a few times back in the early days but not without much success I'm sure.
Fun battle today. I was sure I was going to keep coming up short since every time I won one game after getting to 29, you had already won yourself. But, then once I got the 9x1, the endorphins kicked in and the 6x4 became easier.
Nice to see that freecell wizardry looks to be similar to riding a bike - you can have a long layoff and then pick right back up (or almost). Hopefully, all your children are doing well.
Date: Sun Jan 10 21:25:58 2021
User: roo
Message:None of the above links to vishna's win work any more. Here's the tournament in question.
Link: vishna's win from above
Date: Mon Jan 11 00:49:27 2021
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:" I think I may have competed against you a few times back in the early days but not without much success I'm sure."
This has made me add some piece of code to find it out. I have added "plays" keyword which checks if the supplied name has played in a tournament.
Here is the query I have used:
Kaos plays vishna plays and
And it returns the following for Masters:
70262
26024
27489
28075
32763
Link: Tournament query
Date: Mon Jan 11 01:25:58 2021
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:By the following query finds those where Kaos, WRAC and calicokid played at the same time:
Kaos plays WRAC plays calicokid plays and and
It has been added to the presets.
Date: Mon Jan 11 23:35:55 2021
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:There are 59 Master played by Kaos, WRAC and calicokid at the same time and the following query select those won by calicokid:
Kaos plays WRAC plays calicokid plays and and calicokid $1.player equal-to and
There are 38.
There are 44 won by calicokid if alternate nicks are taken into account:
Kaos plays Dr.Bombay plays or WRAC plays Dr.WRAC plays or calicokid plays dr.calicokid plays or el_conquistador plays or and and calicokid $1.player equal-to el_conquistador $1.player equal-to or and
Date: Mon Jan 11 23:46:59 2021
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:Whoops. I forgot to select those won by dr.calicokid.
Kaos plays Dr.Bombay plays or WRAC plays Dr.WRAC plays or calicokid plays dr.calicokid plays or el_conquistador plays or and and calicokid $1.player equal-to dr.calicokid $1.player equal-to or el_conquistador $1.player equal-to or and
In that case, there are 45 and the result does not include 2021 data.
45 of 87 which can be selected with the following:
Kaos plays Dr.Bombay plays or WRAC plays Dr.WRAC plays or calicokid plays dr.calicokid plays or el_conquistador plays or and and
Date: Tue Jan 12 00:46:15 2021
User: vishna
Message:Thanks for the welcome back. I've been having a lot of fun playing the tournaments again. I was really pleasantly surprised to see a lot of the same familiar competitors still here. You guys continue to amaze me and I love playing against you.
Date: Thu Mar 28 18:04:31 2024
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:vishna, nice win in the Traditional. When I saw that I was the second person to solve the final 8x3, I thought we would both be at 14 wins. Hah, was I ever wrong. You'd already smoked those other two deals.
Date: Sun Mar 31 17:55:57 2024
User: vishna
Message:Thanks, Dr. Bombay! I was pretty surprised too! I am starting to get my bearings again. :-)
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