return to solutionsShe's on a roll! For the second straight month, Mary Lee Pinkney won themonthly contest with a fine score of 780. Her closest competitor was IliaGuzei with 760. Mary Lee wins a free one year subscription to GammOnLine,and will again be invited to join our expert panel next month.
Below is a list of the scores of the panelists and readers, andthe cumulative votes of the readers for each problem.
PanelistsCasper van der Tak 800Snowie 780Mary Lee Pinkney 780Chris Yep 780Bob Stringer 740Marty Storer 730Chuck Bower 700George Klitsas 670Laila Leonhardt 660Kit Woolsey 620ReadersMary_Lee Pinkney 780 Ilia Guzei 760 Hansjoerg Lehnherr 730 Kevin McGrath 730 Christian Tagsold 730 Mark Danek 720 David Berry 720 Achim Mueller 710 Charles Chambers 700 Charles Koval 700 Douglas Gitlin 690 Douglas Faust 690 Hisako Sugiura 690 JP White 690 John Bakovic 690 Ian Dunstan 690 Jordan Lampe 690 Rodney Lighton 680 Christian Anthon 680 Blake Sorem 680 Stanley Livingston 680 James Cordes 670 Nigel Buchan 670 Atanas Krastev 670 Hannu Lyyjynen 670 Jason Artz 660 Peter Bennet 650 mjr 640 Ben Elliott 640 Strato 630 biddie 630 Gregg Cattanach 620 Oystein Johansen 620 Ed Maslansky 620 nelson_huey 620 Ronald Tiggelen 620 Steve Wood 610 Peter Shirley 610 Thorbjorn Schionni 610 Don Heggen 610 Eric Walstra 610 mau 600 Alfred Mamlet 600 Kevin Mittelstadt 600 Carsten Simonsen 600 Doug Roberts 600 Stein Kulseth 590 Boyd Smith 590 Bill Papa 580 Thomas Bovenzi 580 Francois Tissot 580 Robin Swaffield 580 Dougas O'Keefe 580 Stewart Pemberton 580 Jim Allen 570 Dorn Bishop 570 William Bitting 560 Frode Lindstrom 560 Maurits Pino 550 Alan Messer 550 Cyril Courtial 550 Sandra Woods 550 Robert Holyon 550 bpiland 550 Peter Grotrian 540 rkg 520 Butch Meese 520 Michael Hindley 510 Pete Campbell 510 Steve Manchester 510 Bruce Regittko 500 Franck Del_Rio 500 John Little 490 Stephen Flanagan 480 Richard Willis 480 Mary Lee Pinkney's second straight top score vaulted her into a commandinglead for the yearly contest, as other contenders faltered. If she keeps goingat this rate, she will be very difficult to catch. Achim Mueller hangs onfor second place, with Christian Tagsold in third. Readers will havea difficult time overtaking the leaders.Cumulative scores over 7 monthsMary_Lee Pinkney 5290 Achim Mueller 5240 Christian Tagsold 5160 John Bakovic 5110 Steve Wood 5100 Hisako Sugiura 5030 Douglas Gitlin 5010 Nigel Buchan 5000 Ilia Guzei 5000 Oystein Johansen 4990 Blake Sorem 4820 Kevin McGrath 4720 Rodney Lighton 4650 Ian Dunstan 4620 Hannu Lyyjynen 4580 Charles Koval 4480 Franck Del_Rio 4460 Peter Bennet 4370 Gregg Cattanach 4370 Don Heggen 4370 Bill Papa 4360 Carsten Simonsen 4340 William Bitting 4340 Doug Roberts 4330 James Cordes 4250 Eric Walstra 4170 Charles Chambers 4160 Bruce Regittko 4160 Thomas Bovenzi 4150 JP White 4140 Stanley Livingston 4100 nelson_huey 4100 Steve Manchester 4100 Cyril Courtial 4070 Alan Messer 4020 Peter Shirley 3980 Ed Maslansky 3920 Richard Willis 3880 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 21/13 53 24/16 11 21/16, 13/10 9 24/21, 13/8 2 21/18, 13/8 0 problem 2 13/7, 11/9 46 13/9, 6/2* 25 8/4(2) 2 13/11, 8/4, 6/4 1 13/5 1 problem 3 24/18 20 13/9, 11/9 20 18/14, 13/11 12 8/4, 6/4 11 11/5* 9 24/20, 13/11 3 problem 4 24/18, 8/6 22 13/5 22 24/16 13 13/7, 8/6 7 24/18, 13/11 5 13/11, 8/2* 4 8/6, 8/2* 2 problem 5 23/21, 13/9* 29 24/18 20 8/4, 6/4 14 13/11, 13/9* 8 18/16, 13/9* 3 13/9*, 9/7 1 problem 6 24/18 37 24/22, 10/6 21 16/10 13 10/4 2 10/8, 10/6 2 problem 7 8/3, 6/3 30 13/8, 9/6 15 11/8, 6/1* 9 13/8, 11/8 8 9/1* 8 11/8, 9/4 4 13/5 1 11/6, 9/6 0 problem 8 10/7, 10/6 34 6/3, 6/2 16 7/4, 7/3 12 6/2, 4/1 8 7/4, 6/2 5