What is the best opening move in expert Minesweeper?
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6%
1-1
4%
1-2
3%
2-1
3%
2-2
3%
8-15
8%
3-3
5%
8-7
Sometime in the next year or so, I plan to take a weekend to write a deep RL bot to play minesweeper. When I do this, I will train the bot on expert mode (16x30 board, 99 mines) and then see what first move it chooses. Answers must be in the form R-C, where R is an integer 1 <= R <= 8 representing a row and C is an integer 1 <= C <= 15 representing a column (we will use symmetry and assume the bot plays in the upper left quadrant of the board).
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Unfortunately, it looks like I never found the time to do this. Would traders like me to N/A this, or should I extend the close date and try to do this some other time in the next few years?

@BoltonBailey you could n/a it or close it and make a new market when you try again

bought Ṁ2 of 3-3
The stackexchange post claims 3-3 is best https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/63337/39853 but it seems this version assumes there are no mines around the starting square, which I will not assume.

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