Dutch Open 2011

[guusrs]

Thanx Ralph.
I'll try the scramble soon.

Again a sub-30 for Sébastien. He's amazing and a true worldchampion.

Ralph, you should practice more effectively: don't stop searching until you have sub 30 solve and try to reduce time over the solves....

Gus

 

[AvGalen]

Sorry guy's, didn't make it to Eindhoven because of my yesterdays bike-accident.
Can only use my left arm now and I didn't sleep very well.
Hope you have fun.
And I'll be still happy if you post me the FMC scramble....

NB. Poorly enough I bought a chessclock for this weekend.

Really sorry to hear that Guus. I was looking around for you all Saturday.

This is my start for the inverse scramble: F' R' F2 D R L B' U L' (REALLY simple way to finish F2L would be B' R' B R2 D' R2 L B' R L')
With pre-move D' that can be nicely continued like this: B R' B'
Unfortunately there were too many options and I couldn't find a good one. I finished like this (safety solve):
U R' U' D R' D'
R' U R2 U' R' B' R2 B (If you don't know OLL's, you have to force to skip them)
U' R' U F2 L D' R D R' D L' F2 D' (and finally I know G-Perms!)
As always: Nice beginning, lots of possibilities, bad ending. I need weekly practice, but that is not realistic as I am enjoying speedsolving more now

 

[Sebastien]

Hey Guus,

please get well soon and thank you for your accomplishing words!

Here's the FMC scramble: D2 B D2 B F' U2 L R'U B U R U2 B2 D L' F2 D2 L

Sebastien got 27 HTM
If I understood correctly he had a 17 move skeleton, insertion with 5 moves cancel and a 1 move cancel cycle at the end.
Could even be better because he messed up an insertion and had to quickly correct with the cycle at the end.

Well, this is my 5-cycle in 17 moves:

L D B' R' D L' B F2 R D' R F' D' R' . D' R F'

With . = R D L D' R' D L' D' I get a 20 move 3-cycle:

L D B' R' D L' B F2 R D' R F' L D' R' D L' D2 R F'

I had that after like 45-50 minutes. Then I found a 2 move cancelling insertion, wrote everything down but it didn't work - I messed up somehow as Ralph already said. I still don't know what I did exactly wrong, but it must have been a very stupid mistake. I probably hold the cube in the wrong orientation when I stickered the pieces I had to insert. So I stickered the pieces correctly in a hurry and when I was done the anouncement was "2 minutes left". So I just wrote down my 3 cycle to the solution sheet, took the cube that was already solved except that 3-cycle and saw that I'd cancel a move if I append : = F' U' F D2 F' U F D2. The anouncement was "20 seconds" when I finished writing down these moves. FMC can sometimes be very exciting!

So my final solution was

L D B' R' D L' B F2 R D' R F' L D' R' D L' D2 R F2 U' F D2 F' U F D2

- 27 moves.

 

[Cubenovice]

27 moves.

Some very nice blockbuilding you got there!

 

[Zoé]

Nothing to do with FMC anymore, but I made a few pictures this week end

https://picasaweb.google.com/108439...authkey=Gv1sRgCLuwq5ax-cKlzgE&feat=directlink

 

[MyXoToD]

Thanks Zoé for the pictures AND the yummy muffins as well

 

[guusrs]

mmm, I got a 29-mover on that FMC, actually a one-handed FMC, we should start a new competition on that.
I really should train on Sébastiens block building.....
Can't remember my solution now, I wrote it down somewhere on a paper, if someone is interested I could post it.